Enterprise Architecture and Infrastructure

HBSC’s Enterprise Architecture and Infrastructure Practice focuses on building a strong technology foundation for efficiently executing business strategy. We begin by understanding the business objectives and key business processes that will enable the company to improve their operations. Next we analyze the level of system integration and business process standardization. HBSC works collaboratively with clients to define and adhere to architectural principles that result in more efficient and effective ways of doing business. As part of our analysis, we assess the existing architecture from the following 5 perspectives:

• 1. Transaction Systems
• 2. Integration Technology
• 3. Infrastructure
• 4. Analytical Capability
• 5. Social Business Enablement

Our assessment takes into consideration current daily operations, the system architecture, information flows and aspirational goals. This provides an architectural base-line from which to improve processes and enable advanced analytics. The output of our analysis is an architectural roadmap that enables the organization to build new capability one project at a time or in parallel based on budgetary constraints.

At HBSC, building architectures that improve the way people actually work is at the center of our practice. We work to socially enable enterprise software based on the innovative consumer web technologies. Our clients get the cutting edge features and user experience of their favorite consumer apps such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn - while at the same time meeting stringent IT requirements. These new user experience innovations improve information flows, let people form self-organizing communities, discover each other and connect. With Social Business infrastructure, you can use powerful tools and applications for sharing, collaboration and relationship building: blogs, activity streams, status updates, messaging, polling, profiles, and more. Social Business Case Study

We also advise organizations on solutions and strategies around data storage, application management and security to meet business objectives. Our service offering include assessing current and future business requirements, developing technical blueprints and third-party vendor evaluations. HBSC has extensive experience developing architectures and strategies that optimize data storage, management, security and enterprise applications. We take a vendor-agnostic approach and have extensive design experience with leading vendor products. HBSC also assists clients to create highly scalable and cost effective data storage strategies and architectures. We have deep expertise in infrastructure technologies from EMC2, IBM, NetApp, HP, Brocade, Veritas, Computer Associates, VMWare, and Cisco.