Aligning IT with your business objectives
Companies today face two broad challenges: how to enable adaptive enterprise operations and how to keep in step with evolving business demands.
Atos™ Enterprise Architecture provides the solution using result-oriented competencies and methods to create, implement, update and maintain a business and technology roadmap that enables adaptive enterprise operations. It helps you align business processes, manage information lifecycles, rationalize applications, and restructure infrastructures to create real business value.
Atos Origin's complementary business and architecture expertise provides a roadmap that ensures a realistic transition from your current mode of operation to more flexible, more agile, future operations. Providing the adaptivity and performance you need to manage, change and address new business challenges while substantially reducing your TCO.
Providing a focal point for the evolution of adaptive organizations
Atos™ Enterprise Architecture presents an integrated view of business planning (vision, strategy, goals and objectives) and operations (organizations and business processes) and data/information flows, as well as application (systems) architecture and the enabling technological infrastructure across an enterprise. Technology supports the applications, which manage the information, which in turn enable the business to be aligned with the global strategy.
To respond to fast-changing business conditions and capitalize on new opportunities as they emerge, an enterprise must be agile enough to transform and change its business processes and systems quickly through the most cost-effective means.
Bridging Consulting and Systems Integration, Atos™ Enterprise Architecture is a management tool to continuously manage enterprise transformation in a risk-containing manner. Atos™ Enterprise Architecture helps you look at your architecture with the aim of rationalizing systems and restructuring practices based on business considerations. It positions the enterprise’s IT community as a key contributor to business value creation.
Atos Origin’s enterprise architects fill the gap between the vision and the implementation. They understand your ambitions and together with you will design a roadmap that will harmonize your systems with your business needs. To provide you with the renewed energies and resources required for such innovation, Atos Origin undertakes specific endeavors to reduce your TCO and make best reuse of your legacy.
Proven approach and methodology
Atos Origin has strong capabilities in Enterprise Architecture processes and methodologies, an aligned offering, and combines these with strong change management and deep industry knowledge.
Our Enterprise Architecture approach is built on four key principles
- A solid, perennial, based on a strong methodological framework is required for consistency across the enterprise and over time: a multi-facet, top-down view of the enterprise (Business, Information, Applications, Infrastructure), is essential to architecture alignment and stakeholder commitment.
- The clearest possible target and the corresponding trajectory are necessary to reinforce the credibility of the Enterprise Architecture endeavor and enable concrete action: A 3-step, orderly transformation roadmap, starting with the As-Is situation analysis, continuing with the To-Be situation definition, then implementing a safe, incremental migration plan, designed in project slices, themselves prioritized according to TCO reduction and ROI generation.
- Ability to work with a huge diversity of talents of the Enterprise Architecture team is indispensable to have things happen : Mixed project teams with Business Consultants and Technical Architects representing all IT services and working together under the auspices of the central IT Managementare critical to guarantee Business and IT objectives alignment as well as the feasibility of the implementation plan.
- The use of businesss-driven architecture techniques and technologies (such as CBD, SOA) is conditional to open, flexible systems and ongoing maintenance cost containment.
Good decision making requires a sound structure. Therefore Atos Origin offers a strong approach to Enterprise Architecture Governance which is critical to translating planning into action and delivering results on an ongoing basis.