Integrated Secure's strives to help clients maximize the value of their enterprise architectures. Our staff consists of certified systems architects with many years of experience implementing complex applications for both corporate and government initiatives.

Integrated Secure's Strategy Consultants assist clients in aligning their technical enterprise vision with their existing business strategy. Organizations face increasing pressure to focus on architecture, including implementing Service-Oriented Architectures as a way to improve interoperability across the enterprise.

Successful architecture approaches must include both a top-down and a bottom-up examination of the full context of the architecture work.  This is because architecture implementation can easily become a series of disconnected, short-sighted activities which strains an organization’s resources.  Failed approaches can dilute the full potential and benefits of a comprehensive architecture.

As enterprise technologies have matured over the past decade their ability to quickly and efficiently automate complex business tasks has greatly increased. Our enterprise strategy consultants believe that organizational innovation and change strategies are successful only if adequate attention is paid to the analysis and implementation of strategic change-making. The challenge for those directing change is converting vast streams of information into decisions that have true strategic and competitive impact.

A properly formed enterprise architecture prevents the "stove-pipe" mentality of implementing and supporting disparate systems often acting to restrict innovation and place a strain on business resources. The goal of today's enterprise architectures is to create a infrastructure capable of supporting continuous change in an efficient and scalable fashion. Enterprise strategy consulting tasks are to include: needs assessments, asset cataloging, technical requirements analysis, risk and security analysis, business process review, feasibility studies, and product evaluation.

We offer our customers architecture approaches that are realistic solutions encompassing the full life cycle of an organization’s enterprise, including incorporation of fiscal constraints, contract governance, and a judicious infusion of new and emerging technology trends.

Our consultants understand that a successful architecture must be driven by specific business needs, not by the whims of the latest technology. That’s why we begin with the development of a true business-driven enterprise architecture, which provides a holistic view of the enterprise. A truly holistic enterprise view provides two key benefits.

• Information technology (IT) investments are prioritized and focused on clearly identified business needs rather than holding the business hostage to the latest “cool” or “trendy” technology.


• A cohesive, integrated enterprise roadmap, expressed in terms that are appropriate at all levels within the organization, such as for corporate management, technical management, IT professionals, and customer account managers, drives the organization and is used as a clear, concise, common way to express corporate intent for the evolution of the enterprise.

The key to a successful enterprise architecture is the development of a roadmap, driven by corporate business objectives, that continually assesses the “as-is” state of the enterprise and provides the blueprint for incremental evolution to an ever more capable “to-be” state.

The evolutionary aspect is an important improvement over earlier approaches because it preserves and leverages existing IT investments, continues to support mission critical functions during the evolution, and provides management with unprecedented flexibility to balance cost, business needs, and schedule.

A Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) emphasizes the development of coarse grained, loosely coupled functionality that is accessible through standards-based, platform independent interfaces.

Discrete SOA functionality is encapsulated as services, which may be distributed across the network and accessed asynchronously through exchanging standards-based messages. This innovative architecture approach demonstrates how to utilize the power of Web Services standards such as XML and SOAP, and platform neutral technologies such as Java™, to extend application integration from the platform level to the network.

Integrated Secure has hands-on, practical experience designing and implementing SOAs that we can leverage to improve the efficiency of your IT infrastructure and applications, and enhance collaboration among disparate, heterogeneous systems, and information sources.

From achieving platform independent, enterprise-level integration and permitting applications to dynamically discover services to providing independent access to the services, regardless of location or implementation, and rapid modification of existing applications to quickly create new applications to meet emerging requirements, Integrated Secure has the breadth and depth of experience required to reuse an existing SOA, or design a tailored SOA, to meet your organization’s needs.