Digital Architecture
Energy for change in digitalization through business-driven enterprise architecture
Continuous change driven by digitalization and new business models requires ongoing and consistent development of enterprise architecture.
A comprehensive assessment of the impact across all architectural levels – business, information, application, and technology architecture – is crucial for identifying specific areas where action is needed.
Whether as a comprehensive master plan or in focused formats, we provide exactly the support you need to transform your Enterprise Architecture.
Our Service Portfolio
Business Driven Enterprise Architecture
We make Enterprise Architecture an enabler of your strategy: Based on changed or new business models and goals, we jointly develop a future-proof enterprise architecture that sustainably connects your business with IT through a shared understanding of the company’s target picture. This creates transparency, reduces complexity, and makes the enterprise architecture an enabler for critical business initiatives.
EA Program Launch & Health Check
Rapid business value through smart architectural impulses: With our proven method toolbox, we strategically and pragmatically kick-start EAM initiatives – based on specific use cases from your company and/or assess existing EA programs and structures for effectiveness. Our health check identifies action fields and quickly provides concrete recommendations on how to effectively manage your architecture with Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) and integrate it into the strategic demand management process.
Application Landscape Strategy & Roadmapping
Modernization and transparency for your application landscape: Driven by digitization, disruptive technologies, and legacy migration, we analyze the need for change in the application landscape and model scenarios for your target landscape. We highlight options where consolidation or modernization creates real added value, developing the ‘blueprint’ for your target landscape and a directly implementable migration roadmap in line with the IT strategy.
Platform & Vendor Selection
The right platform determines the success of your strategy: We operationalize the application landscape strategy through the selection of suitable software, platforms, and partners in a transparent and vendor-neutral manner within a structured and market-compliant selection process (RfP). The foundation is your ‘critical capabilities’ and requirements for the target landscape, scenario modeling, and impact assessment of options, transparent evaluation criteria, and TCO aspects.
The kobaltblau architecture approach provides our clients with tangible business benefits and competitive advantages
Step 1:
Creating clarity
(Baseline & Analyse)
We gain a clear picture of your initial situation: Through targeted CxO interviews (with business and IT), review of central documents, and analysis of strategic requirements, we ensure that there is a shared understanding of strategy, goals, and core IT requirements. This creates a solid foundation and defines initial action fields.
Duration: ~3-6 weeks
Step 2:
Shape the future
(Target Picture)
Together, we develop a viable target picture for a modernized application and technology landscape that optimally intertwines business and IT. The target picture serves as a strategic blueprint and decision-making basis for your transformation.
Duration: ~8-10 weeks
Step 3:
Steering Change
(Roadmap & Implementation)
We derive concrete measures, prioritize initiatives, and calculate their efforts. This results in a realistic, directly implementable transformation master plan that describes the roadmap to the target architecture – including quick wins and long-term transformation measures.
Duration: ~4-6 weeks
Architecture methods as the key to competitive advantage
Utilize one of the market-leading architecture development methods to identify essential action needs, minimize potential risks during implementation, and ultimately achieve the decisive competitive advantage!
