• IT Strategy Planning
  • Digital Strategy Planning
  • Business Case Development
  • Multi-cloud Analysis
  • TCO Analysis
  • IT Capability Modelling & Analysis

Cloud Executive Advisory

Cloud Executive Advisory offer a suite of services designed to enhance business success through strategic IT planning and implementation with the aim to help businesses gain a competitive advantage.

These services provide businesses with a framework for advancing to align their IT capabilities with their broader business strategies.

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Cloud Architecture

Cloud Architecture is the design, planning, and architecture governance of cloud-based systems. This involves selecting the right cloud components, services, and technologies in alignment with architecture standards, best practices, and frameworks. Our processes include developing detailed low-level designs in the form of architecture definitions with supporting artifacts, managing emergent architecture risks and decisions, implementation planning, and finalising project and consumption costing. Our team of experienced cloud architects work closely with businesses to understand their needs and objectives and then design a customised cloud architectures that align with their goals.

Cloud
Migrations

Post-Merger Cloud
Integration

Cloud Optimisation
and Modernisation

Backup & DR
Strategy Planning

  • Cloud Architecture Office
  • Application Portfolio Management
  • IT Asset Management
  • EA Program Management
  • Architecture Repo Management
  • Goals Orientated

Enterprise Architecture

In the industry, there is a prevalent focus on technical architecture, which involves the specific configurations and technologies of cloud systems; however, there is often less emphasis on implementing cloud as a capability that encompasses broader business processes and strategies. This oversight can lead to underutilisation of cloud potential in driving business innovation and transformation. Cloud Enterprise Architecture refers to the overarching design and governance of cloud-based capabilities within an organisation. Our Cloud Enterprise Architecture services provide architecture knowledge management of the IT landscape to ensure that executives and leaders have a thorough understanding of their environment. The goal is to enhance the organisation’s ability to manage change effectively, align IT strategies with business objectives, and maintain architecture governance.

The Importance of Investing in
Great Architects

Best stated in the opening statement of the IG1310A DT4DI Reference Architecture, quoted verbatim below:

“If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.”   Brian Foot and Joseph Yoder

Even worse, try to develop large, complex systems without architecture.

Your systems would probably resemble Cidade de Deus (City of God) or any other shanty slums:

  • A collection of makeshift items thrown together with no recognisable organisation
  • Lack of essential capabilities
  • Low-quality materials
  • Poor infrastructure
  • Problems everywhere
  • Unsanitary conditions
  • Security and compliance issues
  • Narrow alleyways and unpaved pathways (we may say inadequate integration)
  • Complex maintenance and unplanned expansion
  • Impoverishing the people who build them (in our analogy: engineers and developers) and live there (in our analogy: customers, end-users, and process-owners)

Four Core Drivers to Any Business

Our frameworks, processes, and services, are all tailored toward serving these primary deliverables:

Increase your revenue

  • Ensuring business agility by architecting for compostability.
  • Designing processes that help businesses identify competitive potential through emergent technologies.
  • We provide strategic insights and guidance on leveraging cloud capabilities to access new markets and improve your service offerings.

Protect your gross profits

  • Managing emergent architectural risks.
  • Architecting for security, resiliency, and reliability.
  • Designing backup and disaster recovery strategies to protect your business.

Stabilise your cash-flow

  • Advising on predictable cloud costing models.
  • Designing and governing architecture standards to help track costs across the IT landscape.
  • Designing and governing the implementation of a full Cloud Financial Operations capability.

Lower operational expenses

  • Architecting for cost-efficiency.
  • Advising on cost optimisation opportunities both from application and infrastructure architecture perspectives.
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Why are Our Services Successful?

Objectivity – We maintain a neutral stance as we are not entangled in operational duties or internal political pressures.

Breadth of View – Our direct exposure to the wider industry allows us to observe how other organisations facing similar challenges address problems and avoid pitfalls.

Focus – We allocate the required headspace to dedicate our full attention to each issue, applying the due diligence it deserves.