Technology Architecture Assessment
Evaluation of an organization's technology architecture and its alignment with business
What is Technology Architecture Assessment?
A technology architecture assessment is a systematic evaluation of an organization's technology architecture to ensure alignment with business objectives, support for current and future needs, and adherence to industry best practices.
Ultimately, it involves understanding business processes, goals, and strategies to determine whether the technology architecture enables or inhibits their achievement.
Technology architecture assessment helps organizations ensure their technology architecture aligns with business objectives, supports growth and innovation, and provides a foundation for sustainable success.
Architecture Assessment Involves
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Examining the existing technology architecture, including hardware, software, networks, databases, and other components.
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Evaluating the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats associated with the current architecture
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Assesses how well the technology architecture supports the organization's overall business objectives
How Technology Architecture Assessment Works?
All our assessments are aligned with the client's particular business ambition through the lens of key technology architecture artifacts, and aim to achieve all assessment goals.
User Interface
Integrations
Persistence
Application
The assessment provides an end-to-end 360-degree view, baseline, and maturity readiness analysis to achieve your thesis.
Assessment Goals
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Establish a firm understanding of the investment thesis guiding the exercise
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Learn about the target business and evolution of the technology and team
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Evaluate intrinsic risks and opportunities
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Provide a comprehensive report and address key questions
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Be highly efficient with minimal impact on the team's time
Software Evaluation & Code Assessment Explained
Software evaluation and assessment includes reviewing key areas extracting critical findings necessary to perform a thorough analysis. Armed with the analysis results and business objectives foundational artifacts with improvements and recommendations are defined ensuring a clear path to achieving our clients' business objectives.
What is Explored?
Current Architecture
Reviewing the current architecture, key use cases, scalability, security, performance, maintainability, configuration methods, targeted code review, hot issues, reliability, resilience, and extensibility
Technical Debt
Assessing backlog state and the impact of support issues on research and development, bug backlog, and effort distribution
Current Deployment
Reviewing the current deployment: Assessing automation and continuous improvement capabilities
Open Source, Security, Software Composition
Open Source Software, Security Review, and Software Composition Analysis includes mapping known vulnerabilities, licenses, and associated restrictions
What is Defined?
Effort & Prioritization
Anchored effort prioritization and distribution techniques within teams
Go-To Architecture
Definition of go-to architecture patterns that support objectives
Technical Roadmap
Outline of a technical roadmap required to achieve maturity supporting the objectives
Feasibility
Evaluation of feasibility aligned with business goals
Target Data Model
Established target data model, caching, decentralization patterns, unlocking parallelism capabilities and scale
Architecture Runway
Evaluating architectural runway health, identifying improvement options including scalability performance patterns, security, maintainability, quality, extensibility, APIs, integrations, reliability, availability, and optionally, open-source policy
IT Operations
Understanding the new approach to IT operations and deployment
Enterprise Architecture Assessment
Not all companies center around software. Many are tech-enabled conventional businesses innovating through streamlined business processes and a comprehensive enterprise architecture with integrated enterprise tools, and oftentimes bespoke software.
This allows companies to enrich offerings and create economies of scale through process automation.
Organization Design
Development Process & Architecture
Security, Policy & Access
Inventory Management
Data, Integration & Data Flow
Support & Operations
Infrastructure Suitability
Enterprise Architecture
Tools Adequacy & Ownership
What Enterprise Architecture Assessment Includes?
Scalability and Flexibility
Assessing scalability and flexibility to accommodate growth and changes in organizational requirements
Performance and Reliability
Analyzing performance and reliability to meet requirements for speed, responsiveness, uptime, and resilience
Cost and ROI Analysis
Evaluating total cost of ownership (TCO), cost-effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI)
Security and Compliance
Reviewing security, access control, data protection measures, and compliance requirements
Interoperability and Integration
Evaluating how well different components integrate and interact within the enterprise architecture and with external systems
Recommendations and Roadmap
Based on the findings of the assessment, providing recommendations for optimizing the enterprise architecture and developing a roadmap for implementation.
This may involve identifying areas for improvement, defining priorities, resources allocation guidance, and establishing preliminary timelines for implementation.
