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ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE SERVICES

Given the emergence of latest 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. Beulah Soft’s Enterprise Architecture services focus on ensuring that our customers achieve both of these goals.

Businesses and public organization are increasingly digitalized. Transformation requires big picture view of the organization’s strategy, processes, information and technology assets. Enterprise architecture work aims at business and IT alignment with rational, fast to change and cost effective structures.

OFFERINGS

 

Enterprise Architecture Program Enablement

 

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:

 

  • Starter repository of architectural principles, standards and artifact templates
  • Enterprise Architecture processes, including governance, roles and responsibilities
  • Optionally offer an innovation lab to help in keeping up with technological advancements
  • Support the path to the desired maturity by providing our own consultants to fill skills, resource gaps and cross-training

 

Architecture Blueprinting Service

 

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
  • Integration View
  • Information Security View
  • Other Views as needed

 

Innovation as a Service

 

This service leverages Beulah Soft’s 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.

 

IT Asset and Financial Management

 

We help companies reduce and control IT equipment costs dramatically.

 

Through standardization, proper documentation and loss detection, you can mitigate risk, improve your inventory control and support strategic decision-making.

 

Business and IT Strategy Alignment

 

Our service provides advice on creating competitive advantages by leveraging IT to transform business operations. Our consultants speak the language of business and IT to provide:

 

  • Holistic analysis of an IT organization, including business-IT alignment, technology, operations, governance and processes
  • End-state definition, including target portfolio, infrastructure, governance, Program Management Office, architecture, strategic sourcing and staffing models
  • Cost-benefit analysis to evaluate value proposition
  • Near-term and long-term implementation roadmap from current to desired future state

 

Application Portfolio Rationalization

 

Our systematic approach to portfolio rationalization helps determine the best option for each IT application or asset analyzed based upon its value. Options range from retention, to application phase-out, to remediation (rewrite) or outsource. Services include:

 

  • Align business-IT so that IT works on what’s most valuable
  • Establish a quantitative baseline of the efficiency and effectiveness of the current application landscape for better decisions
  • Effect changes in the application portfolio (retirements, consolidation) for immediate payback
  • Provide valuable input to senior management to improve IT organizational effectiveness

 

Information Architecture Services

 

From strategy to delivery, our Enterprise Information Management practice offers:

 

  • Strategic, advisory and management consulting across Enterprise Information Management, Business Intelligence and Analytics
  • Strategic, advisory and implementation services for next‑generation technologies such as Big Data Analytics, Mobile and Cloud BI
  • Enterprise performance management solutions spanning business strategy and enterprise metrics definitions
  • End-to-end information management services including data management, data integration, data quality and data governance

Services Orientation (SOE/SOA) Adaptation & Implementation Consulting

  • We help clients with the adaption of the concepts of services orientation by working with them to clarify, align and implement the concepts of services orientation. We help organizations in identifiying the “Hype Factor” of SOA, the “Hope Factor” of SOA and theReality today. Our team provides expertise in the adaptation, implementation, transformation, organizational design, staffing models, people, business & IT strategy alignment elements of the services oriented concept.

System Architecture

System Architecture defines the structure, behaviour and other views of the systems used to support an enterprise.

 

Our System Architecture teams use a structured approach to:

 

  • Model enterprise systems, their behaviour, key components, cost to operate and maintain, reliability and other important system views.
  • Review current system architecture, identify system gaps, recommend strategies for improvement and produce roadmaps to implement change.
  • Rationalise application portfolios based on value provided by each application.
  • Govern and operate a selection process with a view to buying systems to support business needs.
  • Recommend and govern an effective integration approach supporting minimal dependency and increased reusability between systems.
  • Execute Proofs of Concept to assess emerging technologies and help with decisions on complex technology adoptions.

 

Data Architecture

Effective data management ensures accurate and relevant data, and hence valuable information on which business decisions should be based.

 

Our Data Architecture teams use standard approaches to:

 

  • Create a model of data entities to understand data flows, data storage, data quality and data gaps.
  • Set up and facilitate governance of data.
  • Define strategy for data ingestion, validation, processing, storage and analysis.
  • Produce a roadmap to implement defined data strategy.
  • Help with navigation through confusing and complex data management technologies.

Technology and solution architecture

Solution Architecture is a practice that leverages Enterprise Architecture artifacts to define implementable solutions to meet business goals and needs.

 

Our experienced team of Solution Architects will help you to:

 

  • Understand business needs and combine appropriate technologies to achieve a solution to your business problems.
  • Document proposed solutions from different viewpoints depending on stakeholder concerns.
  • Govern the implementation of the chosen solution.
  • Execute PoCs to assess solution viability and mitigate risk.
  • Evaluate new technologies with a view to separating hype from reality.

 

Siebel and OBIEE Consulting

The core of our success comes from our extreme product expertise. It is very easy to claim skill. However, complex products such as Siebel take time and serious effort to learn. Going on a training course is only a start. To become a true expert, a different level of time and intellectual curiosity is required. We have made those investments to ensure our consultants are the most knowledgeable available and that your project is a success.

 

We offer a full range of Siebel skills, either leading projects or providing point expertise into your own team. Services include:

 

Siebel Implementation

  • Technical team leadership and knowledge transfer
  • Extreme expert level configuration
  • End user process and user interface simplification
  • Configuration design
  • Integration – EAI, web services, EIM, client side
  • Performance reviews and tuning
  • Reporting

Reporting

  • OBIEE
  • BI Publisher

Siebel Upgrades (6.x / 7.x / 8.x to 8.1.1.11 / IP14 / IP15, SEA to SIA)

  • Complete projects or expert support to internal team
  • Full upgrade / IRM
  • Script optimisation
  • Open UI switch on
  • Prebuilt Open UI
  • Open UI training / knowledge transfer and best practice coaching
  • Open UI portals
  • 1.1.11 to IP14 / IP15 / IP16 upgrade

Application Support

  • Support of your configured version of Siebel

OBIEE

We have also worked with every version of OBIEE (often called Siebel Analytics when the primary data source is Siebel) and its predecessor applications since 2001. Our implementations have ranged from small releases for a few users, completed in a matter of days, to major enterprise deployments involving multiple countries and releases over a number of years.