Enterprise architecture

Business architecture establishes a framework of concepts to clearly communicate current-state business challenges and articulate a business-centric vision for the future.

We assist you in developing an integrated, enterprise-wide view of each business unit using a repeatable approach, cohesive framework, and industry-standard techniques. This gives your management teams a holistic view of the business, extending into outsourced, customer, and other stakeholder domains.

Working at all levels of the organisation, our business architects elicit strategic priorities from senior leaders and executives while supporting business unit managers in leveraging business architecture outputs to create their business plans.

The aim is to allow the business to take ownership and drive transformation strategies through business-centric roadmaps and funding models, recasting traditional, technology-centric funding models in business terms.

At the process level, we assist you to align business processes across business units and product lines, delivering stakeholder-focused benefits far beyond traditional ‘lean’ or similar process streamlining exercises.

Our business architects’ skills and experience in analysing the activities of business units enable us to make recommendations regarding the projects that business units should perform.

By providing direct input into the governance cycle for funding, overseeing, and realising your business projects, our business architects help ensure that business and ICT projects align with forecast outcomes, consider specific business scenarios, and deliver business value.

Applications architecture outlines a solution designed to fulfil both technical and operational requirements, while optimising key quality attributes such as performance, security, and manageability. Effective applications architecture mitigates business risks associated with developing a technical solution.

Frame’s applications architects identify the requirements that affect the structure of the application. They build a bridge between the business requirements and technical requirements by understanding use cases, then finding ways to implement those use cases in the software.

A good design is sufficiently flexible to be able to handle the natural drift that will occur over time in hardware and software technology, as well as in user scenarios and requirements.
Frame’s architects consider the overall effect of design decisions, the inherent trade-offs between quality attributes (such as performance and security), and the trade-offs required to address user, system and business requirements.

Frame’s application architects have the expertise to:

• expose the structure of the system but hide the implementation details
• realise all of the use cases and scenarios
• address the requirements of stakeholders, as much as is practicable
• handle both functional and quality requirements.

We use a number of tools, methodologies and templates to accelerate the documentation and dissemination of the applications architecture. This includes using wikis, UML models and documentation techniques to effectively communicate the architecture to a wide audience.

Information architecture maximises the value of corporate data by turning it into meaningful information, which is in context of what users need, when and where they need it.

Data’s real value lies in it being used to create meaningful information. And information is only meaningful when it’s in context of the audience it serves: your people, customers, even your business systems.
What’s more, the requirements for the information continually change based on combinations of audience, time, location and the outcomes you expect the information to help you achieve.

Frame transforms the way you exploit, access and interact with your data to give you the information you need to achieve the outcomes you want.

We architect, build and deploy solutions that turn your data into information. But we don’t just do analytics and pretty graphs — we add the context that makes your information meaningful.

Overlaying it with content from external sources such as maps, demographics, iconography, statistics and location-based services, we present it in ways which:

• aids the understanding of your situation
• opens your eyes to possibilities you hadn’t seen before
• enhances your business decision-making by providing a complete picture of the influencing factors.

A contextual information solution maximises the value of your corporate data. It gives you fast, simple and secure access to any information your people and customers need, anywhere they need it, using any device — from desktops, phones and other mobile devices to large-format screens for mass public display.

Information delivered in this way has the potential to transform the way you work.

Technology and infrastructure architecture maps application components as defined by application architecture, using software and hardware technology from the market or within the organisation.

Our technology architects translate business and technical requirements into a solution architecture, which may include contextual, conceptual, logical and physical views of the architecture.

Frame is well-placed to assist you with technology and infrastructure architecture, having:

• lead or significantly contributed to numerous organisations’ technology solution architecture
• held senior design and architecture roles in large projects and programs for commercial, government and defence organisations
• as consultants, worked directly with clients to develop enterprise architectures, ICT strategies and transformation programs
• conducted architecture reviews of existing systems and in-flight projects, and communicated findings to stakeholders
• experience in domains such as business, application, information, integration, security, infrastructure, network infrastructure, compute infrastructure and operations architectures.

As technology architecture defines the physical realisation of an architecture solution, it has strong links to implementation and migration planning. The Frame Group has the knowledge, skills and experience to successfully implement and deploy technology solutions.