Enterprise Architecture

Services provide foundation for strategic planning and roadmaps using TOGAF methodology adapted for iterative implementation. The firm creates Action Architecture addressing business architecture, information architecture, security architecture, and technology architecture. Specialized expertise includes Medicaid Information Technology Architecture 3.0 (MITA) and HIPAA security requirements for health/human services clients.

Enterprise Architecture (EA) and its subdisciplines provide the foundation for strategic planning and to develop roadmaps to guide implementation efforts. Having an enterprise architecture based on your organization's business and technical goals supports informed investments and management of your IT portfolio. Nebustream differs from other firms that provide EA services in that we engage architects with real-world project implementation to ensure the architecture we develop is actionable and quickly provides return on investment. We use our experience with legacy system modernization and integration patterns to develop transition architectures that provide incremental benefits and reduce the risk of your organization's transformation initiatives.

Our approach to actionable enterprise architecture, or as we like to think of it, Action Architecture, is focused on your organization's to-be state, and a comprehensive roadmap and set of supporting plans to implement your new Action Architecture. The to-be state answers "What do we want and need?" and transition architectures and implementation plans answer, "How will we do it?". In addition to architecture designs, we create playbooks to provide guidance about how to implement new architecture patterns and platforms because they a helpful for knowledge transfer and are revisited for future IT transformation. We work with your program management to support planning and identify projects that fund implementation of enterprise shared services and data across systems. Use of enterprise shared services reduces implementation time and cost. We analyze your existing business processes, existing IT systems, and project to create transition architectures that address dependencies, establish, and leverage shared services.

We use the Open Group Enterprise Architecture Framework (TOGAF) Architecture Development Methodology adapted to iterative based project implementations. Our iterative methodology creates your architecture incrementally to initiate projects in a more rapid yet risk reducing model than traditional waterfall-based EA approaches. We first create a set of guiding principles and overall roadmap, then we create transition architectures that incorporate the following domains: Business Architecture, Information Architecture, Security Architecture, Technology Architecture.

Often, realizing your objectives through EA requires organizational change. This can include changes with your existing EA organization, program management office and technical teams. Nebustream provides supplemental Organizational Change Management (OCM) services to prepare your teams to execute the defined EA. Our EA and OCM experts engage can assess your organization's ability to provide governance, manage projects and implement new technologies. This is an injection of strategic action into the traditional EA engagement to create Action Architecture. We then work with your leadership to develop commitments to prepare and manage organizational change. This includes implementation of new policies and procedures, training, and talent acquisition. Our team can also capture and refine metrics and factors to measure the efficacy of change management and EA outcomes.

In our Health and Human Services practice, we provide specialized Action Architecture skills and working experience implementing systems designed through the Medicaid Information Technology Architecture 3.0 (MITA) guidelines. Our background with MITA creates an EA that not only complies with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) funding requirements but also provides useful tools for your project implementation teams. We have hands-on expertise using MITA and related standards to design systems that promote component reuse and data sharing across organizations. We also specialize in defining security architectures from our experience implementing systems subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) security requirements. We develop security architectures to comply with regulatory requirements and to safeguard your system's data in a manner that supports business operations. We are committed to helping clients learn about and comply with the required and recommended practice standards.