In the history of Information Technology, there are perhaps no two words more misunderstood than “Enterprise Architecture”.
The intention was sound. What was intended to drive greater visibility and identify opportunities for consolidation and simplification however, became for many organizations, a very expensive reporting exercise for external parties. Northramp helps organizations refocus the energies spent on enterprise architecture to drive greater internal value through identification of immediate opportunities for standardization, enhancement of technology standards, and integration of standards into planning, governance, and acquisition processes.
However, the general efficacy and value of cloud alternatives for efficient delivery of infrastructure, platform, and software services is undisputed; the enumeration of which is covered in substantial reviews and studies and supported by continuous wide-scale adoption by large and small organizations alike. But getting from on premise data centers and silo'd solutions to broad use of the cloud takes a lot of planning and specific sequencing to realize the value while successfully managing technical, operational, and mission risks.
CLOUD
Service PLANNING
Northramp helps organizations rapidly evaluate their current infrastructure footprint, operating posture, security functions, contract structures, and other factors to identify a path forward for migration of some or all of an organization's infrastructure services to the cloud. Using a variety of alternatives, including hybrid cloud and cloud management platform technologies, Northramp develops realistic strategies that are planned and sequenced to facilitate transition while reducing risks.
CLOUD
PROGRAM SUPPORT
Northramp helps organizations develop broader programmatic controls and strategies for governing growing portfolios of disparate cloud planning and migration projects that frequently exist across an organization. Our support includes development and implementation of cloud programs to provide centralized control and visibility, identification and management of cross-service dimensions such as security, and definition and delivery of cloud training and communication approaches to help ensure appropriate planning, implementation, and operational skills are available.
Standards Development/ Enhancement
Northramp helps organizations evaluate and improve their technical standards with a combined focus on approved technologies, implementation methods, and product agnostic standards. Northramp's approach helps organizations better connect standards to their governance and planning processes as well as to their current systems portfolio - resulting in better, more practical opportunity identification and sustainable input into planned system efforts.
IT Roadmap Development
Leveraging our proven IT Information Framework (ITIF) and approach, Northramp helps organizations develop a sustainable architecture planning capability, supported where necessary by our flexible and extensible tools sets. Northramp's approach helps organizations connect architecture planning to the organization's overarching systems planning activities, enabling near real-time reporting on progress towards identified goals and targets.
