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Enterprise Architecture

TowerStrides is a recognized Enterprise Architecture (EA) thought leader. Our achievements include:

  • Award-winning EA Program support at US. Customs and Border Protection
  • Key contributors to the Practical Guide for Federal Service Oriented Architecture
  • Published a synergetic integration between SOA and ITIL Methodology.
  • ACT/IAC VISTA Task force contributor for modernizing VISTA using proven Governance.


We use our EA methodology to enable true business transformation by:

  • Identifying opportunities for IT modernization, consolidation, and reuse;
  • Implementing a Service Oriented Architecture;
  • Establishing comprehensive governance structures, including tight integration with Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC).


Our approach helps organizations:

  • Realize measurable results in terms of service/technology reuse, cost savings, and performance improvement;
  • Monitor industry trends and forecasts;
  • Analyze opportunities, risks, problems, and available options;
  • Develop an actionable enterprise-wide vision and transition strategy.

Business Process Management:

 

Business Process Management (BPM) streamlines or automates those business functions with predetermined outcomes that are performed by people and software systems. A comprehensive BPM solution enables your organization to refine business and increase the efficiency of your operations. In addition, BPM will provide you with the ability to monitor, analyze, and control processes in real time.

At TowerStrides our solution is designed to increase the visibility and flexibility of business processes and eliminate the bottlenecks that can cost your company time and money.At TowerStrides, we understand the negative impact that ineffective business processes can have on your business. With a strong expertise in business process improvements, we’re uniquely qualified to serve as your all-in-one Business Process Management solution.

  • We utilize a systematic approach to managing and defining processes, catering to your changing needs and increasing ROI.
  • Our team of business architects and analysts has helped dozens of clients identify gaps, define process improvements, and implement solutions for a comprehensive Business Process Management system.
  • From federal to commercial and every industry in between, our team of seasoned experts can help you refine processes to meet the needs of your enterprise.
  • Our Business process consultants can speed up your workflow by automating processes that currently require manual intervention.
  • Our expertise also includes in-depth knowledge of business process modeling techniques, such as Swim Lanes, Decomposition Diagrams ,Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)

 

Service Oriented Architecture:

 

In today’s increasingly competitive market, global organizations are realizing the need to align their information technologies to meet rapidly growing industry demands. Meeting these challenges requires increasing the efficiency of business processes by leveraging existing systems. To accomplish this objective and achieve their business goals, more organizations are implementing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). SOA provides a platform that uses enterprise information and builds reusable services around business processes. Results include increased return on investment, a boost in customer satisfaction, improved product quality, and enhanced operational agility.

TowerStrides, TowerMAP, a proven SOA principle and best practice methodology will

  • Increases information visibility, improve business agility, and enable your organization to make more savvy business decisions.
  • Eliminate redundant business functionality, inconsistent data across multiple systems, and the painful process of consolidating systems after mergers and acquisitions
  • Does away with the cultural issues often encountered when aligning IT with business.
  • Establish the road map for SOA by identifying the gap between your existing and target state architecture.
  • Perform a thorough assessment of the current state of your business processes, integration solutions, security infrastructures, and enterprise data entities.
  • Our client-focused consultants will provide a step-by-step approach for implementing and reaping the benefits of SOA.
  • Our SOA center of excellence has defined tools and guidelines for service analysis, discovery, modeling, and design to improve standardization within your organization.