Enterprise Architecture & IT Portfolio
Fewer systems, clearer choices, a foundation AI can use.
Years of projects leave a tangle of applications, overlaps and costly links. We map your architecture and portfolio, decide what to keep, fix, move or retire, and design the target that supports your strategy.
- 12
- markets on the map
- 20+
- years in banking tech
- 95%
- projects on time
Six architecture domains.
Business architecture
Capabilities and processes, tied to strategy.
Application architecture
What each system does, and where they overlap.
Data architecture
Where data lives, who owns it and how it flows.
Technology & infrastructure
Hosting, platforms and capacity, on-premise or cloud.
Integration & APIs
How systems connect, through APIs and middleware.
Security & compliance
Controls, data residency and what regulators expect.
An architecture AI can run on.
AI needs clean data, open integration and clear controls. We design those into the target, so you do not re-platform later.
- Data it can reach and trustWhat we design in: A data architecture with owners and quality checks
- Access to core systemsWhat we design in: APIs and an integration layer
- Room to growWhat we design in: Hosting and capacity planned for AI workloads
- Controls regulators acceptWhat we design in: Security, residency and audit built into the design
Every application gets a decision.
We plot each application by business value and technical health. The quadrant tells you whether to invest, migrate, tolerate or retire it.
Numbered circles are the shortlist below. Open circles are the rest we scored.
- 1Core banking
- 2Mobile app
- 3API gateway
An illustrative portfolio. In practice we score every application with your owners.
Map, assess, design, plan.
Map
See the estate as it is.
- Build an inventory of applications, data and links
- Map business capabilities to systems
- Gather costs, contracts and owners
A map, a target and the way there.
- 01A current-state architecture and application inventory
- 02A portfolio decision for every application
- 03A target architecture across all six domains
- 04Technology standards and principles
- 05A sequenced transition roadmap
- 06An architecture governance model
Questions leaders ask us.
Which frameworks do you use?
TOGAF and Zachman, plus banking reference architectures. We use what helps and keep the paperwork light.
Do we need an architecture tool?
No, but it helps keep the map current. If you want one, our Enterprise Architecture Tool can hold the model after we finish.
Will you tell us to replace everything?
Rarely. Most of the value comes from retiring overlaps and fixing integration. Replacement is one option among four.
How does this relate to Technology Assessments?
Technology Assessments asks whether your systems can support AI. Enterprise Architecture looks at the whole portfolio and designs the long-term target.
Simplify the estate before you build on it.
Tell us about your systems and where they slow you down.