IFI consultants have assisted leading companies with planning information strategies, developing data and service architectures, modeling cross-functional process flows, and developing program management operating models for managing enterprise architectures.

Typical client situations

• The applications portfolio has grown as business needs have evolved, but an architected approach is now needed to align the technology roadmap with the business strategy
• Tactical technology initiatives have prevailed but now a business-driven technology roadmap is in order
• Over the years, processes and technologies have been point-optimized at departmental levels – a holistic, company-wide information strategy is needed

Services offered

Assessment

• Development of an “Evaluation Framework” to measure the efficacy of candidate architectures based upon business opportunities, risks and stretch goals
• Assessment of current enterprise architecture maturity and effectiveness in supporting business goals
• Gap Analysis to identify specific areas of architectural improvement 

 Architecture and Roadmap

• Development of foundational enterprise architecture based upon industry standard frameworks such as EAF (Enterprise Application Framework), Zachman and TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework)
• Architecture process framework
• Information strategy
• Data management strategy
• Enterprise information architecture
• Service architecture and SOA roadmap
• Business process architecture
• Data quality plan
• Operating model for architecture governance