INCEPTION

Businesses are continuous seeking to innovate, gain a competitive advantage, streamline business processes or resolve problems on their current business model. The solutions architects play a lead role for the governance and design of complete end to end solutions from inception through delivery to handover. During the inception phase we can apply our wide range of technical knowledge and experience to help drive the technology strategy and work with Business Architects and Business Analysts to ensure what is proposed as solution is both fit for purpose and meets the business requirements. During this program/project phase we can help your organization with organize workshops with internal and external parties, conduct stakeholders and business owners interviews, functional and non-functional requirements gathering, produce the Requirements Traceability matrix (RTM), Arch Steer, Solution Heat Map, Initial Impact Assessment, project shirt size, High Level cost sheet, RACI model and materials to support project seed funds request .

Communication, Leadership and Negotiation

Organizations usually have complex needs or difficult problems which require solutions across different domains with complex environments and technology stacks. It is fundamental that the solutions architect to be an excellent communicator and comfortable at explaining and presenting both solutions and rationale for decision making to a technical and non-technical audience via brainstorms, whiteboard sessions, documentation and presentations. The Solutions architect must be a strong technical leader with a Can-do mentality. To be a successful Solution architect one needs to have high technical depth as well as high problem solving and negotiation skills to assure the purposed solution receives the consensus and buy-in across different organization's domains and stakeholders.
We have vast experience and demonstrable ability to understand business challenges and needs and apply technology to meet those needs. We can provide consultancy to determine and understand the dependencies that exist between technical and non-technical components across streams and explain the solutions to technical and non-technical audience.

Architecture and Governance

Armed with the ranked list of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, it is time to convert the SWOT analysis into a strategic plan. Your organization may be motivated to create a target architecture to save costs and reduce risks through application rationalization. We can create a synthesized short and long term plan that provides guidance how to reach business objectives and enhance processes and products. Here we will apply the best architecture frameworks to deliver solutions that cater for performance efficiency, Reliability, Security, Cost Optimization and Operation Excellence.

Delivery

After holding a strategic plan that delineates what has to be done, in what priority and how the plan's success will be measured, your organization will be looking to add technical depth to this plan. We can document how the technology investments can align with business goals and how the right technology enablers can support existing or future IT initiatives. After we gather the information to understand the 'as-is' state we will present you a recommendation based on Gartner's TIME model from the applications in your organization that you should decide either to Tolerate (T), Invest (I), Migrate (M) or Eliminate (E). Once the project is in motion, it is time for the Solution Architect to segment IT initiative with executable designs and epics. Here are some daily key competencies from Avilius Solutions Architects (list is by no means exhaustive):
1. Coordinate ongoing activities.
2. Translate the design concept to development teams and IT operations.
3. Defines the best-fit solution for existing problems and to support business vision.
4. Ensure technological risks and dependencies are accounted for and the solutions meet functional and non-functional requirements.

Assurance, Automation and Accountability

The IT strategic planning needs to be breakdown into tangible delivery releases which will define the roadmap for executing the key actions required to meet IT strategic goals in alignment to the enterprise business model and goals. We can define and document the roadmap for the IT strategic plan as well as help gaining consensus in the priority items.

Handover

In this phase the Avilius Solution Architect will monitor the process and keep stakeholders updated and informed on thee progress. The Solution Architect will ensure that all deliverables are completed according to the agreed requirements and that they meet the clients expectations. In addition the Avilius Solution Architect will assure that all documentation is complete and accurate, including migration runbook, user manuals, system manuals, training manuals, support model, operations readiness report, migration and warranty support.

EXECUTING Solutions Architecture

Developing and executing Solutions Architecture that align with business goals. Avilius has proven ability to develop and design solutions architecture that meet customers requirements:

• Documenting Stakeholder Requirements
• Current state Business Architecture
• Current state Technology Architecture.
• Current state Data Architecture.
• Current state of Application Architecture.
• Target Technology Architecture.
• Target Application and Data Architecture.
• Cloud Computing (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Big Data (Hadoop, Spark, Hive)
• Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning, Deep Learning)
• Team Leadership and Management
• Communication and Recommendations to move from state architecture to the target architecture.

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Steps

We work agile by bringing people, processes, technology and context together to find the most appropriate and effective solutions for clients vision and IT strategy.

1

Specification

First Meeting with the client to learn about the project goals and budget.

2

Consultant(s) Digital Card and Statement of Work (SoW)

We will deliver the consultant(s) business card as well as the statement of work (SOW) with clear definition of work being provided, prices, scope , project deliverables, work location, timelines and payment terms and conditions.

3

Delivery

After Avilius receives the SoW approval and a successful Purchase Order that confirms the purchase of services stated in the S0W, our consultants will start working on the deliverables agreed in the Statement of Work .

4

Change Requests

We work agile and are extremely flexible, the client can always approach and discuss new changes requests to the initial Statement of Work. Avilius will work with you to onboard the new change request in the initial scoped activities.

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Contacts

Email: info@avilius.nl

Solutions Architecture

INCEPTION

Communication, Leadership and Negotiation

Architecture and Governance

Delivery

Assurance, Automation and Accountability

Handover

EXECUTING Solutions Architecture

Steps

We work agile by bringing people, processes, technology and context together to find the most appropriate and effective solutions for clients vision and IT strategy.