A global
financial services client required Enterprise Architecture assistance to
support their Canadian business unit, a credit card issuer with revenue of $50
million a year.
Solution:
CapTech
partnered with the internal architecture team and Canadian line of business to
provide enterprise architecture services, including:
Maintenance of a rolling 3-year Target
Architecture tracking as-is infrastructure and all initiatives planned by
the business that would require significant IT support.
Developing project architectures for each
significant IT initiative. These efforts included:
The company’s first integration with an
external web service, to meet anti-terrorism regulations by positively
identifying credit card applicants with no prior relationship to the
company.
The company’s first successful attempt to
migrate to a new data warehouse and completely decommission the legacy
platform.
Establishing a multi-vendor payments solution
enabling electronic fulfillment of payments in the Canadian market while
aligning with the broader organization’s payment outsourcing arrangement.
Contribution to various architecture process
improvements, including:
Effective coordination between architecture
groups with long term goals and Agile Development project teams with a
get-it-done focus.
Auditability of project
design reviews, in order to extend the overall audit trail of the project from architecture
through code implementation.
Tools:
Agile
Methodology
MS Project
Results:
Business unit executed 30% of the target
architecture roadmap under CapTech’s guidance.
Several projects involving CapTech architectural
oversight were honored with the company’s internal “Circle of Excellence”
award.
Effective balance between
meeting architectural goals and business needs was established.