Global Tech has a well-established reputation and substantial experience in EA and related best practices. This reputation is built upon knowledge of EA methodologies and frameworks and the ability to successfully align business needs with information technology. By doing so, Global Tech has helped large organizations realize numerous benefits encompassing economic and operation efficiencies, including: cost savings, cost avoidance, opportunities for consolidation, intra-organizational collaboration, technical standardization, performance metrics and security integration.
The Global Tech EA teams are comprised of professional Enterprise and Technology Architecture consultants who are recognized subject matter experts. Our senior management team possesses over 75 years of combined EA and IT Strategic development experience at Fortune 500 and Federal civilian and defense organizations. This experience and our thought leadership in related Federal Working Groups positions Global Tech to assist clients achieve business transformation through technology improvements, service performance and cost savings.
We possess extensive experience in guiding the adoption of new technologies in the Federal sector and in understanding the role of collaboration to achieve enterprise buy-in. Our approach helps organizations:
- Maximize the value of investments in key technologies;
- Outline how key technologies can be leveraged over time to enable enterprise wide vision and strategy;
- Define the value of technology and industry trends and forecasts;
Analyze opportunities, risks, problems, and available options; and- Recommend the best approach moving forward.
Global Tech has recommended and guided the adoption of new technologies to meet specific client business needs and to improve organizational performance through process automation or IT consolidation. These recommendations include technologies that enable Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). We consider SOA to be an architectural mindset and our proven framework enables the agile delivery of services to meet business needs in a cost-effective manner through the reuse of well-defined business and IT capabilities.
Our team is well versed and intimately familiar with the following EA methodologies and frameworks:
- DoDAF
- TOGAF
- Zachman
- Spewak
- FEAF
- C4ISR
To enable the automation of Enterprise Architecture efforts, Global Tech maintains its familiarity and knowledge of the following EA tools and repositories including: Adaptive, Metis, Telelogic and Mega.
Some examples of Global Tech EA experience includes:
- Development of the Target Performance, Business, Data and Technology Architectures and Transition Sequencing Plans for two Federal Departments. OMB ranked our clients among the top six highest agencies across the Federal Government. Additional EA support includes IPv6 support and development/implementation of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
- Development of Target Enterprise Architectures for numerous Federal agencies and Initiatives, all of which have been ranked at a level “Green”.
- EA implementation and communication instruction as part of the USDA Graduate School’s Enterprise Architecture Certification Program.
- Federal agency EA training at the introductory, intermediate, advanced, and executive levels.
- Leadership in the development of Federal Collaboration and SOA frameworks.
- Development of Department-wide IT Standards adoption processes. This includes the creation of the IT Standards Process, management of IT standards working groups, facilitation of the IT governance process, and research of current and emerging IT applications/technologies.
As a result of our efforts and nominations, our clients have been honored with the eGov Institute Award for Excellence in EA (2005) and the President’s Quality Award (2007).
For a complete list of clients who have benefited from our
Enterprise Architecture expertise visit our Experience section.
Read Global Tech's Article on Enterprise Architecture
published in the Journal of Architecure