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EA Governance

IT needs to establish a lightweight and effective governance process that links all activities back to the business strategies (line of sight). Central bodies must have authority to enforce rules. This increases co-ordination, buy-in and morale while reducing duplication and risk.

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Delivery and Operations

Holistic approach to software engineering, focusing on automation, smart use of tools, and lightweight but effective processes.
Process and automation-driven Operations, with clear accountability, strict environment promotion criteria, configuration management etc.

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Organisation and Skills

Skills aligned to Enterprise and Business needs, focusing on Training (skills), Development (disciplines) and Behaviours (culture change).
Organisation structured to maximise efficiency and effective teamwork, break down silos, create interlinks; with clear roles/responsibilities.

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Priorities and Roadmap

An incremental roadmap built to satisfy the strategy, delivering functionality in an ROI-prioritised and incremental fashion.
Processes in place to determine priorities definition.
Processes in place to define enterprise functionality/service requirements.

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Architecture

Create an architecture supported both by business and IT, delivering to the business.
Never do architecture for architecture’s sake!
Create principles but don’t hang everything off them.

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Funding and Measuring

IT and the Business must create a funding model in terms of business value and impact not just IT cost. IT investments must be measured on ROI and TCO of real business impact and be treated like any other business investment.

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Alignment and Direction

ProSolveIT sees IT aligned to the Business. IT and Business alignment enables business processes and is critical to the enterprise and innovation. The IT strategy is linked to the Business strategy enabling the enterprise to step back from short term ROI and look at long term ROI and TCO with respect to real business value and not just short term cost.

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ProSolveIT EA Process

ProSolveIT have 5 core themes that sit around governance to deliver alignment and direction through Enterprise Architecture. Governance takes the deliverables from the other themes and enforces compliance and inter-theme relationships to ensure incremental consistent delivery.

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Implementing SOA

Most organisations implementing SOA hit problems not in the technology but in the softer elements that need to be changed. These can include organisation, governance, cost models, project models and SDLC. Let ProSolveIT partner with you to identify and fix these problems before they become a major issue.

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Oracle SOA Consulting

The Oracle Fusion Middleware product range has a range of suites; SOA Suite, BPM Suite, BPA Suite and Governance Suite. ProSolveIT can provide all necessary consulting at a technical or strategic level around these product suites.

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