Essence Networks

"Most things difficult to design prove easy to operate." ~ Samuel Johnson.

Enterprise Architecture Services

Enterprise Architecture is a specialist professional area that enables an organisation’s leaders to execute on their strategic objectives – mainly through their investments in innovation in process and technology improvements.

Our services help achieve:

  • Higher effectiveness and strategic relevance of your in-house Enterprise Architecture programme
  • An established and professional Enterprise Architecture programme
  • Improved value for money from your outsourcing or better support in decisions in retaining critical functions in-house.
  • Improved consolidation, planning and execution of your in-house portfolio of projects.
  • Solutions and Technology Architects able to make better use of expenditure in new computing trends like cloud technology, service oriented technology and from investments in product platforms from Big Tech such as Salesforce, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Google etc.

Expertise

In our practice, use the Zachman Framework(TM) as the core discipline. We also have working knowledge of descriptive frameworks such as TOGAF(TM) or FEAF, NZGEAF, as per client preference.

Our multi-disciplinary approach has been developed from working across business subject matter experts, in-house IT teams and  Programme/Change Management with large and complex organisations.

We have practical knowledge of ICT industry standards and recommendations from open standards bodies such as W3C, The Open Group, OASIS, OMG, WfMC and others and programme/project environments such as SAFEagile, PMP, MSP/PRINCE and others.

Products

We deliver:

  • Assessment Reports of your current in-house Architecture Practice – Vision & Strategic Positioning, Maturity and Capability with vendor-independent Value for Money advice.
  • Enterprise Architecture Framework – custom design based on industry standards and in-house capability
  • Architecture work products for Programme Management, ICT Project Management and Business Analysis activities
  • Architecture & Design Committee – design and establishment
  • Workshop design – design & training material
  • Architecture models – Process, Data, Role/Security, Network and Performance
  • IT Service and Infrastructure models and specifications
  • Architecture model repositories based on industry leading toolkits such as  IBM Telelogic, MEGA, Sparx Enterprise Architect or Proforma ProVision
  • Custom  model repositories as per requirements.