Organization Design Services

Data Warehouse Design and Implementation

The EAP contributes to a successful data warehouse in two important ways: (1) the definitions in the data architecture serve as the foundation for combining and reconciling data in disparate current systems, and (2) the data-driven implementation plan accelerates the creation of the shared data resource for the enterprise. This architected data resource will be directly accessible to decision support and executive information systems. This solves the two most difficult and costly problems with data warehouses today - the reliability of computations using data items individually defined from separate sources, and the enormous investment of effort required to create and maintain a data warehouse apart from the current systems.

Enterprise Architecture Institute has a methodology for the design and construction of data warehouses and data marts. Enterprise Architecture Institute's consultants and associates can either take full responsibility for the design and construction of the data warehouse, or facilitate and guide your internal data warehouse team. We bring to this table the same technical expertise and project management that has enabled our EAP projects to be successful. The project initiation phase of the data warehouse methodology will determine the scope of the data warehouse, its purpose and role in the business, the source-data transactional and operational systems that will feed into the warehouse, adapt our DW methodology to suit particular situations within an organization, evaluate and select the products and tools for the data warehouse, identify and assign participants to the DW team, and develop a detailed work plan for the implementation of the data warehouse.

Information Technology Organizational Re-engineering

The integrated information systems of an architected environment differs in many ways from a traditional information systems environment comprised of large independent stovepipe systems with a wide variety of often incompatible technologies. It should therefore be expected that the organizational infrastructure of the Information Technology group would also need to be re-engineered to better manage a different environment. Enterprise Architecture Institute offers consulting services to IT executives to create a modern effective IT organization.

System Development Methodology Evaluation & Selection

Changes to the IT organization’s standards and procedures are commonly recommended by EAP teams. One of the most significant of these is the system development methodology for projects that will not merely be installing COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) software packages. The "integrated object-oriented distributed client-server code-reusable" systems in an EAP cannot be built using the system design approaches originally developed in the ‘70s.

Enterprise Architecture Institute has a process for evaluating and selecting a system development methodology appropriate for modern application systems. Software products supporting the methodology Dozens of criteria are considered to narrow the choices. Then a "bake-off" is conducted to actually follow system the development "recipe" for each contending methodology and to "taste" the result and evaluate the experience. The results of the selection will be presented to management for approval together with a training program to develop internal skills.