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ARCHITECTURE GUIDANCE

Why Architecture Guidance?

Information technology (IT) infrastructures in large organisations are complex, with components that span multiple vendors and products. These infrastructures distribute a variety of services both within and outside the organisation, many of which are mission-critical.

Effective solutions have historically been challenging to deliver and difficult to manage, resulting in high costs when addressing business problems and potentially high TCO (total cost of ownership). In order to effectively run an agile business that is responsive to ever-changing customer needs and capable of dealing with technological change, it is vital to control the unstructured growth and proliferation of custom solutions.

Adopting a standardized technology infrastructure that forms the basis of all solutions within an organization is one method of exercising this control.

What is Architecture Guidance?

uptime's Architecture Guidance, is a technology architecture for enterprise organisations. It caters to typical scenarios by providing planning guidance and implementation guidance based on best practices. The planning guidance discusses design choices for implementing a technology architecture, which helps formulate your approach to a standardised architecture.

Benefits of Architecture Guidance?

This guidance is highly valuable because it addresses fundamental infrastructure issues such as availability, security, scalability, and manageability of the platform.

It also supports the IT life cycle stages of plan, build, deploy, and operate. Using the guidance to its fullest extent can help jumpstart systems integration projects and lead to the following benefits in an organisation:
  • Reduced implementation time and cost, ensuring a faster time to benefit
  • Predictable and reliable performance from pre-tested implementations
  • Availability levels to meet service agreements
  • Security levels to meet business requirements
  • Scalability, to meet projected business volumes
  • Reduced implementation and operation risks