Services
IT Architecture Consulting
Considering the emergence of disruptive technologies and their influence on how customers are engaged, it is important to stay current, agile and stable with the rapidly changing state of your industry. It is also important to take advantage of emerging technology platforms such as social media, mobile technologies, big data analytics and cloud-to drive business and performance. I2labs’s Enterprise Architecture services focus on ensuring that our customers achieve both of these goals.
Our service starts with an assessment of the existing Enterprise Architecture Program against a Reference EA Operating Model and a Maturity Model. Based on the objectives and needs of the customer, a roadmap towards a target maturity level is developed. We help establish the program with:
- Enterprise Architecture processes, including governance, roles and responsibilities
- Starter repository of architectural principles, standards and artifact templates
- Optionally offer an innovation lab to help in keeping up with technological advancements
- Support the path to the desired maturity to fill skills, resource gaps and cross-training
- Our service helps detail all the necessary stakeholder views of any state of an Enterprise Architecture, current state, future state or any transitional state.
Views may include:
- A Core diagram showing how the Application Architecture, Information Architecture and Technology Architecture support the Business Capabilities
- Starter repository of architectural principles, standards and artifact templates
- Integration View
- Information Security View
- Other Views as needed
- Innovation as a Service
This service leverages i2labs technology R&D and maintenance of a Technology Radar. We are constantly looking at emerging technologies and researching their application.
We plan, setup and test at our cutting-edge innovation lab for the customer where testing and certification is done using targeted pilot innovation concepts. After that, we provide ongoing managed services to operate the lab.
Many other architectural domain-specific and pattern-specific services available.
Our consultants start with your business vision and help assess and define all facets of the enterprise architecture - including business architecture, information and data architecture, functional architecture, application architecture, technical architecture and infrastructure architecture. They help you establish prescriptive and reference architectures that leverage solutions like ESB, messaging and integration, business rule engines, big data and analytics, Data Warehousing, MDM, mobility and ECM.