Oppotunities and Solutions Using TOGAF

07-Opportunities and solution

Introduction

After final definition of the solution from the four different perspectives, you should provide the following:

1. Detailed architecture capabilities

2. Different alternatives

3. Selection criteria

4. Best-fit selection per your criteria

Activities

Discussing alternatives to the proposed solutions, for the enterprise architecture.

At this stage, We can have different opportunities to provide per each area, which the power of the enterprise architect, as he act as the consultant to provide and confirm the optimum solution that fit with organization objectives.

• Per Business Architecture:

  • • Make or buy strategy (software/component/Platform/Cloud/HW)

    • Best fit Marketing Strategy

    • Process improvement

• Per Data Architecture

  • • Best-fit data architecture model (Relational/Non-Relational)

    • Best-Fit analytics tools

• Per Application Architecture

  • • Best-Fit standards (CMMI/SAFe)

    • Best-Fit Software engineering tool

    • Best-Fit approaches (API first/Micro-Services)

    • Best-Fit technology Stack (.Net/Java/Python)

    • Best-Fit Data Analysis Tool

• Per Technology Architecture

  • • Infrastructure (Primary and DR)

    • Security Model

    • Network Model

• Generally:

• • • Architecture principles

    • Supportive policies