Effective management of system capability is crucial for business success and sustenance of competitive advantage. System Architecture needs to maintain a balance across multiple factors, viz., rapidly evolving technology, dynamic business scenarios, and integration with diverse systems, without increasing either the cost of software development or the complexity of software systems.

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) offers a framework for building and integrating software components as reusable services, promoting flexibility, scalability, and reusability across different applications and platforms. When working with IT architecture consulting, the principles and best practices of service-oriented architecture should be considered to align the resulting system architecture with an organization's long-term goals and objectives.

Enterprise System Architecture needs to be expressed effectively for addressing key business concerns such as:

• Modernizing hardware and software environments to simplify IT infrastructure.
• Achieving quality attribute objectives for applications, encompassing availability, scalability, performance, reliability, portability, and maintainability.
• Addressing security challenges related to integrating numerous applications, devices, and data sources.

The practice of systematic development can provide benefits in terms of quality and cost gains by adherence to architectural guidelines. A key premise of this logic is that important decisions may be made early in system development in a manner similar to the development of civil architecture projects.

Our Approach

Cybage recommends an approach based on the generally accepted practices for architectural description and provides a technical framework for further evolution in software architecture consulting. Our criteria-based selection approach describes how the system or product will be constructed, the critical components, and their applicability from a high-level, logical perspective.
Mapping such a selection against the available templates helps to leverage architecture principles for defining the system architecture, which addresses the visibility, changeability, and collaborative aspects to meet the defined quality expectations of the customers.