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Clearly understanding your business goals and objectives
is a critical first step in defining the requirements a
business IT system must meet.
As an
Enterprise IT Architect, I am often involved with both
the business side and the IT side of a company or
organization.
Having
owned and operated my own businesses and having
consulted for and worked with fortune 500 and fortune
1000 companies for the past twenty years has provided me
business and IT experience that can help you leverage
your Information Technology Systems as the strategic
assets they can be for the management, growth and
continued profitability of your business.
Enterprise Architects are critical to the success of
your business. They are experienced in gathering the
insights and data of the business; its sales strategies,
its operational requirements, its growth initiatives and
marketing strategies and by drilling into each of these
areas, they create operational efficiencies for the
company through the implementation of new technologies,
they lower costs through standardization and improve
time to market through automation. An Enterprise
Architect looks at the business as a whole. They know
how a business operates and they know how technology can
support it. An Enterprise Architect assists in
protecting the business through proper planning for
continuance of operations regardless of the event that
could cause interruption to the business.
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Application
Availability Assessments
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Compliance and Risk
Assessments
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Server and
Application Virtualization and Consolidation Studies
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Application
Dependency Mapping
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Business Continuity
Planning
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Disaster Recovery
Planning
Enterprise Architects work with business and IT teams to
define the technology and IT standards to support the
business goals and objectives. By clearly understanding
the business needs through such planning and analysis,
Enterprise Architects define and prioritize IT projects
that will have the greatest impact on your business and
determine the best technologies to support these
projects.
Which
technology will your project embrace?
Best
regards,
-Todd
Carter, CISSP, SSP, CCSP
www.ToddCarterCISSP.com
toddcartercissp@gmail.com |
