Business and Enterprise Architecture - the beginning of the true journey

Stand up your Business Architecture practice or mature your existing Business Architecture Components

Aviana Technologies' Business Architecture Practice Components consist of:

• Practice Evaluation, Strategy and Planning
• Talent and Capacity Development
• Practice Change Management and Communication
• Enterprise Model Development
• Methodology and Standards Development
• Governance Process Development
• Practice Value Measurement
• Tool Selection and Alignment
• Training and Mentoring Program Development and Delivery
• Business Architecture Community Support
• Organizational Alignment and Integration

We work with clients to develop IT architecture that improve their business performance in terms of revenue, time-to-market, and flexibility while reducing IT spend.

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Business Architecture

Business Architecture bridges the gap between a company's strategy and its successful execution

We work with you to understand where your business really is, where it wants to go, and what it truly takes to get there — without the costly risk of trial-by-error. We integrate deeply into your organization to address all dimensions of your challenges and identify the best path to resolution and subsequent realization of strategic goals.

Why is Business Architecture value?  Does your company suffer from chronic disconnect?
A common problem in today’s business: the upstream corporate vision fails to get successfully translated into actionable objectives.  Downstream, critical coordination fails amongst business units, as well as between the business and IT.

Business Architecture aligns the Organization
Business Architecture serves to properly align the organization. Business Architecture reveals how an organization is structured and can clearly demonstrate how elements such as capabilities, processes, organization and information fit together.



How can Business Architecture be used?  How value is derived through Business Architecture
Any business—from an entrepreneur to the largest corporation—can benefit from Business Architecture. Here are a few examples of how we have helped organizations to apply Business Architecture:

• Start a new company
• Define a new market
• Define a new product offering in the marketplace
• Restructure a business unit
• Drive legacy modernization
• Reinvent what and who a company is
• Integrate people, processes, capabilities, technology and culture during M&A
• Transform a Fortune 50 enterprise around customer experience
• Make a decision that dramatically reshapes a federal program
• Solve social problems holistically

Engage Business Architecture at the beginning of a corporate initiative
If your organization has not applied Business Architecture before, select an appropriate pilot effort  to build an understanding of how it applies to  your organization and to foster buy-in.  We provide services that meet your specific Business Architecture needs as they relate to the enablement of:

• Business Transformation
• Portfolio Management
• New Business / Product / Market
• Large-scale Technology Implementation
• Compliance Management
• Mergers and Acquisition (M&A)

Engage us to help start your own Business Architecture practice
Let us help you start your new Business Architecture practice, from defining your value proposition to standing up all the necessary components of your internal practice. We offer training and mentoring to develop your staff into highly trained business architects. 

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Enterprise Architecture

Is you struggling with your complex IT enterprise?

As the complexity of IT in large enterprises increases, the cost of maintenance can become overwhelming, and the response time of the IT function can slow to unacceptable levels.

Integrating the inevitable patchwork of systems can prove to be an enormous challenge and typically fails to deliver the material results or the added value that CEOs demand.

What we do
We help clients address their IT architecture when there has been a trigger event such as a merger or acquisition, or when a core system needs replacing. When the time-to-market or the cost of the existing architecture is no longer sustainable, we help clients reduce annual IT costs by 15-30 percent, while building a platform for the future that can create business opportunities. These savings occur, for example, through consolidating similar systems or by reducing the complexity of the interfaces between systems.

We take a top-management approach to IT architecture redesign. This means being sensitive to the needs of all users and to the overall efficiency of the network. Typically, enterprises have someone within the IT department charged with this role, but the best architects are rarely the most skilled builders or engineers. We bring our wealth of business experience and understanding to bear on the overall design of the IT architecture. We help align our clients' IT function's perspective with the boardroom perspective—often a challenge due to the latter's lack of understanding of the technical aspects of IT system design.

Our goal is to help organizations end up with better architects who understand how to move toward the blueprint that we create in conjunction with the client. We make the business benefits of change very clear and devise a series of roadmaps for how to move from the current state to the blueprint.