"...when the complexity of your IT environment exceeds your ability to manage it, the management cost exceeds the business value."

Gartner, December 20, 2005

At Ingenuity, Architecture is defined as the technical representation of the overall IT strategy. The IT strategy encompasses everything required to achieve the organization’s long-term goals (including personnel and organization structure), while its architecture represents the set of existing and future products and technologies on which the strategy will be built. At its core, the enterprise architecture states what technologies, products, and design methods the IT organization will and will not use to deliver services to the business. A good architecture both selects certain technologies and at the same time constrains others from being used. All follow-on systems are designed within the boundaries set by the architecture.

Because the enterprise architecture most often requires changes in technology over a period of time (3-5 years), it implies changes to the organization’s processes, structure, staffing, and sourcing – basically every aspect of IT. If, for example, the architecture calls for a broad move towards open source technologies within three years, but at the end of two years there are no Linux-trained administrators within the organization, the architecture will fail.

This service area addresses these Key Issues:

Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery
IT Asset Management
Vendor Assessment / Selection / Management
Data Center Relocation / Consolidation
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
Value Chain Integration & Partnering
Identity Management
Business Process Management
Server Consolidation / Virtualization

Ingenuity consultants specialize in assessing and developing enterprise architectures. Our methodology ensures that all of these considerations (not just the technical) have been addressed.