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Great architecture is invisible

Highly performing, secure, reliable technology is obvious only when it’s invisible. The moment problems appear in the architecture, your capability starts to be compromised. The challenge is to maintain a coherent architecture so that you:

  • Leverage legacy technology investments
  • Appraise cost-benefits across evolving solutions
  • Incorporate best practices and proven experiences
  • Align with key business drivers
  • Eliminate unnecessary risk and unexpected cost

Assess Where You Are

Senior architects use Coherent’s assessment tool to guide discovery and analysis. We assess across the business spectrum to discover, document and present a complete picture of your architecture’s maturity and essential steps to move forward.

  • Business Value: Clearly define business goals and alignment with architecture for long-term return on investment.
  • Architecture & Design: Leverage solution experience from hundreds of customers over decades; apply industry best practices that support business goals and desired system attributes.
  • Security & Compliance: Ensure key best practices are integrated into the solution architecture.
  • People & Process: Empower team to understand goals; build and maintain architecture through process.
  • Maintenance & Support: Position the organization to operate effectively by enabling appropriate system support within architecture and established processes.
 Coherent Architecture Process
  • Availability & Disaster Recovery: Identify attributes and implement process to meet system service level agreement (SLA).

Develop Where to Go

Our six-step process guides architecture development. It translates assessment discoveries into practical, actionable steps that align technological trends, industry best practices and your business goals.

Coherent Architecture Process

 

Mentor and Maintain

Architecture quality and consistency are far from “plug-and-play” across the IT industry. That’s why our experts mentor your people as well as your systems with wisdom and hands-on support.

  • Help teams define, improve and implement an architecture that aligns with business strategy.
  • Employ talented mentors armed with practical experience and unmatched communication skills.
  • Tailor results to precisely meet your requirements from strategic guidance to turn-key support.
  • Prioritize knowledge transfer using seasoned coaching and subject matter expertise.