EAC Services:
Change: : It's the one constant in business today. With the environment - both internal and external - in a constant state of flux, businesses have to be flexible and adaptive to manage these changes and continue a sustained delivery of value to its stakeholders. With rapid and frequent changes in business, IT can't be far behind.

Therefore, today's environment demands a unified, synchronized approach based on a formal IT Strategy that is in line with the organization's mission, stated business goals and key processes. This also calls for constructing the enterprise applications and solutions based on a framework that is adaptive to any changes - flexible, scalable and inter-operable while ensuring that the existing IT infrastructure is rationalized to deliver maximum value.

In short, we are looking at an enterprise -an agile, adaptive and resilient one - where the business aims at delighting the customers with IT playing a critical role in this endeavor.

An Agile, Adaptive and Resilient Enterprise is what we help you build. It's combining industry-leading best practices, domain expertise and IT advisory services from Convola - helping you move quickly to turn challenge into opportunity.

Convola Enterprise Architecture Consulting Practice helps you - the IT Stakeholders - address your organizations' most complex and challenging IT issues, enabling you to achieve and sustain superior overall performance and returns; while ensuring that all business needs are met.

The work we do for clients include:

• Strategize
• Architect
• Assess
• Rationalize

Strategize - Preparing you for tomorrow: We help you evolve an agreed-upon course of action and direction that helps manage the relationship between the enterprise business, IT and its environment. The goal is to achieve alignment or synergy between IT and Business as well as leverage on emerging technologies to manage business needs and deliver superior offerings. We help define IT strategy which aligns with business and encompasses technology investment decision making, technology standards, infrastructure management, IT organization & governance.

We help you to:

• Formulate a pragmatic, actionable and prioritized set of IT initiatives
• Increase the ROI of existing investments in IT
• Define a global IT architecture vision
• Envision ways to leverage emerging technologies for business value
• Enable delivering the right technology and applications

Business process management consulting We provide comprehensive consulting services ranging from BPM Fitment Analysis, Business Case development, TCO/ROI analysis, BPM technologies/products evaluation, Solution Architecture to Implementation roadmap.

We help you with the following:

1. Business case - BPM fitment analysis, TCO/ROI analysis
2. BPM product/ technology evaluation and recommendation
3. BPM solution architecture
4. implementation roadmap along with critical success factors and success indicators
5. Proof of concept

Technology investment ROI analysis:

Help enterprise assess the value of existing/proposed technology initiatives using financial yardsticks

We help you:

• Identify emerging technology trends that will impact business
• Evolve a standard with respect to technologies
• Evaluate technology options available and recommend the most suitable option
• Cost Benefit analysis of technology options
• Recommendation of the most suitable option based on ROI and TCO analysis

Consulting on open source adoption:

We offer a comprehensive set of consulting services to enable organizations to adopt the Open Source technologies/products. Services range from Suitability/Fitment Analysis, Business Case development, TCO/ROI analysis, Technologies/products evaluation, Solution Architecture to Implementation roadmap.

We help you:

• Build a business case - open source suitability analysis, TCO/ROI analysis
• Evaluate product/technology to achieve this
• Draw out the architecture and model framework
• Evolve implementation roadmap/migration plan along with critical success factors
• Build proof of concept/pilot

Architect - Building lasting solutions:

Help design the structures of the systems in the enterprise, which comprise software components, applications and the relationships amongst them and the business goals. Offerings include:

Enterprise architecture consulting

We offer a comprehensive set of consulting services to enable organizations to reach the desired EA maturity level with pragmatic, strategic and tactical approaches - EA Initiation, EA Framework-Meta-model Definition, and EA Current State Assessment.

• EA Initiation - EA vision/charter, strategy, governance model and rollout plan
• EA framework definition - EA domain identification, EA framework selection, EA meta-model, EA lifecycle processes, principles, standards, EA tool evaluation/selection, As-Is EA modeling pilot
• EA current state assessment - identification of gaps w.r.t. desired EA maturity level, recommendations to bridge/close the gaps and Implementation roadmap/plan

Solution architecture definition

This service provides end-to-end Solution Architecture for addressing complex business problems requiring usage of multiple, best of breed and cost effective technologies.

We work to deliver:

• Solution architecture covering conceptual, logical/application, information/data and technology/deployment architecture views
• Technology/technical risks and mitigation strategies
• Architecture principles, guidelines, standards and best practices
• Implementation roadmap

Framework definition
We help you Define Common, Reusable, Application Framework on top of which multiple applications can be built - faster and consistently. With this, we deliver a Common Application Framework Architecture and Design - translating common usage patterns among multiple applications into software framework consisting of extensible services/components with well-defined interfaces

Assess – Judgments of value:
Make a judgment of value, quality, outcomes and results of the existing or proposed IT solutions/technologies.

Offerings include:

Architecture assessment
Validate existing/proposed architecture against stated, current and future business/technical goals.
We help you:

• Investigate/validate the existing architecture
• Analyze & Prioritize the architecture based on your business needs

Technology evaluation

This service assists clients in comprehensive, objective evaluation of competing technologies/products against the stated requirements of the client.

• Decision model consisting of evaluation criteria with weights for evaluating/comparing options
• Recommendation of the most suitable option
• A Roadmap with critical success factors and success indicators

Distributed application performance assessment & enhancement

This service enhances performance of business critical, distributed applications by identifying bottlenecks and recommending improvements in the areas of architecture, design, implementation and deployment covering various layers/tiers - Application, Software, Database Hardware, Network etc.

Deliverables include:

• Assessment/Analysis of the performance bottlenecks
• Recommendations (with prioritization) of corrective measures to be taken
• Implementation approach/plan to carry out the recommendations

Rationalize - Employing logic

Structure IT Assets, which includes applications, data and physical infrastructure (S/W, H/W and data centers) using key criteria in order to achieve desired results

Offerings include:

IT Asset portfolio rationalization

We help you in providing complete insight into your IT landscape to identify inefficiencies and provide an action plan to rationalize the IT Assets in order to enhance the business value, reduce the complexity and achieve cost savings

Assist in asset portfolio rationalization
Establish a process for ongoing management of the asset portfolio

Reuse consulting
We offer reuse consulting services to help the client prepare business case for reuse within the organization, implement and rollout reuse initiatives.
Deliverables include:

Reuse potential assessment and business case for reuse in the enterprise
Reuse strategy and approach definition – consisting of recommendation on people (Org. Structure), processes, tools/technologies, best practices, guidelines, critical success factors, and enterprise reuse implementation plan
Reuse assessment (of existing reuse program/Initiatives/plans) – identification of gaps/improvement opportunities and recommendations