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Tailored Solutions for Every Stage of Your EA Journey.
Our Solutions.
Many organizations struggle to fully benefit from Enterprise Architecture (EA) due to limited resources, lack of the right tools and processes. This leads to low adoption and missed opportunities. EA as a Service bridges this gap by offering expertise and tooling to help build a solid EA foundation, so your team can unlock its full potential and create a real impact.
At Vasa Digital Architects, we address one of the biggest challenges organizations face today—managing a fragmented and inconsistent view of their technology assets.
Many teams are overwhelmed by disparate tools like CMDBs and scattered Excel documents, making it difficult to answer critical questions such as:
"How many applications do we actually have?"
"Who is using them, and for what?"
"Are they still valuable?"
"Do we have the right technology to support our business needs?"
Using leading tools like LeanIX, our AI Technology Stack, combined with our visualization expertise, we provide a clear, unified view of your entire technology landscape, spanning business applications, IT systems, operational systems, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and data & analytics.
But we don’t stop there.
We guide you through strategic planning by documenting and visualizing key strategies across business areas and technology types. With our consistent tools and methodologies, we help formalize tribal knowledge and align your technology assets with your strategic goals.
Our expertise in business architecture ensures you get an accurate, consistent picture of both your current and future state. We help you map out the evolution of your application functions and IT assets, ensuring they are aligned with your business objectives.
We also streamline investment planning, linking long-term strategies to actual technology assets. This transforms manual tasks done in Word and Excel into a dynamic, integrated roadmap that connects directly to your architecture and assets.
Additionally, we enhance architecture governance, ensuring decisions about technology solutions and standards are well-documented and aligned with your enterprise architecture. With clear visibility from investment to solution architecture, your organization can make informed, strategic decisions confidently.
Many teams are overwhelmed by disparate tools like CMDBs and scattered Excel documents, making it difficult to answer critical questions such as:
"How many applications do we actually have?"
"Who is using them, and for what?"
"Are they still valuable?"
"Do we have the right technology to support our business needs?"
Using leading tools like LeanIX, our AI Technology Stack, combined with our visualization expertise, we provide a clear, unified view of your entire technology landscape, spanning business applications, IT systems, operational systems, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and data & analytics.
But we don’t stop there.
We guide you through strategic planning by documenting and visualizing key strategies across business areas and technology types. With our consistent tools and methodologies, we help formalize tribal knowledge and align your technology assets with your strategic goals.
Our expertise in business architecture ensures you get an accurate, consistent picture of both your current and future state. We help you map out the evolution of your application functions and IT assets, ensuring they are aligned with your business objectives.
We also streamline investment planning, linking long-term strategies to actual technology assets. This transforms manual tasks done in Word and Excel into a dynamic, integrated roadmap that connects directly to your architecture and assets.
Additionally, we enhance architecture governance, ensuring decisions about technology solutions and standards are well-documented and aligned with your enterprise architecture. With clear visibility from investment to solution architecture, your organization can make informed, strategic decisions confidently.
EA Foundation Setup
Tech Risk Management
Rationalization & Modernization
Business Unit Technology Roadmaps
Solution Architecture
Optimize Enterprise Integrations
Optimize Data Management Analytics & AI
Research &
Innovation
EA Foundation
Our EA Foundation service establishes a strong foundation for Enterprise Architecture (EA) using LeanIX and our AI Tech Stack. We begin by forming an EA core team and integrating LeanIX to manage applications, data, integrations, and IT components systematically. We define business context and map application relationships by collaborating with subject matter experts (SMEs) to develop organizational structures, value chains, and capability models. Applications are categorized into domains for better organization, and we integrate LeanIX with your other IT Management tools for greater automation. Our goal is to ensure complete information accuracy in LeanIX, representing all organizational structures, business contexts, and integrations comprehensively.
- 01: Know your Business
- 02: Know your Technology
- 03: Align your Technology with your Business
- 04: Setup your Architecture Team, Tools, Processes, Architecture Review Board Governance, Guidelines and Policies
CASE STUDIES
Case Study: Establishing an EA Foundation for a Global Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Company
We helped a global pharmaceutical manufacturing company establish a unified Enterprise Architecture (EA) using LeanIX to manage their complex IT landscape across multiple sites. Our approach involved creating a comprehensive global application inventory, setting modeling guidelines to standardize information capture, and identifying application and process owners to ensure accountability. This provided enhanced visibility into their IT environment, enabling the company to maintain regulatory compliance, improve efficiency, and drive innovation, supporting long-term growth in a competitive market.
Case Study: EA Foundation for a Railcar Manufacturing Company
We helped a leading railcar manufacturing company establish a robust Enterprise Architecture (EA) foundation using LeanIX. Our approach involved setting up a comprehensive application inventory, developing value chains and business capabilities, and mapping applications to these capabilities. This process provided the company with a clear understanding of their IT landscape, allowing them to identify redundancies, optimize their technology. As a result, the company is better positioned to make informed decisions, reduce costs, and support future transformation initiatives.
Case Study: EA Foundation for a leading Game Developer
We assisted a leading game developer in setting up and scaling their Enterprise Architecture (EA) using LeanIX to effectively manage their diverse and rapidly evolving IT landscape across multiple specialized teams. Our approach included creating a comprehensive portal for all their applications and identifying application owners to enhance accountability. This gave the game developer greater visibility into their IT environment, enabling a more proactive approach to managing privacy, risk, and compliance, and positioning them to improve IT/Tech efficiency while supporting their ongoing growth and competitiveness in the gaming industry.
Strategic EA &
Continuous Improvement
Strategic EA & Continuous Improvement is a suite of ongoing services designed proactively manage technology risk, to minimize potential threats, ensure business continuity, and protect critical assets. Through strategic rationalization and modernization, we help prioritize applications for optimization, aligning them with your organization's long-term objectives. We create tailored technology roadmaps and help inform your strategic investments. We develop solution architectures to facilitate technology adoption, integration, and innovation across all business units. Additionally, the service enhances enterprise integrations and data management, boosting efficiency and supporting better decision-making, while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation to maintain a competitive edge.
- 05: Technology Risk Management
- 06: Rationalization & Modernization
- 07: Business Unit Technology Roadmaps & Investment Strategy
- 08: Optimize Enterprise Integration
- 09: Optimize Data Management, Analytics & AI
- 10: Research & Innovation
CASE STUDIES
Case Study: Optimizing Application Portfolios for a Major Oil and Gas Refinery
We partnered with a major oil and gas refinery to optimize their application portfolio, enhancing operational efficiency and reducing costs. Our approach included a comprehensive review and scoring of all applications to determine their value and identify those needing transformation, sustenance, or replacement. We then conducted deeper dives into specific portfolios, such as Document & Content Management and Transport (Outbound Logistics), to identify opportunities for rationalization and modernization. This process led to a streamlined IT landscape that aligns with the refinery's business objectives, reduces costs, and positions them for sustained growth and competitiveness in the industry.
Case Study: Customized Roadmaps for a Leading Investment Asset Management Company
We helped our Client, a leading investment asset management company to develop customized roadmaps for multiple business units, aligning their technology initiatives with strategic goals and enhancing operational efficiency. Our approach involved assessing the specific needs of each business unit, creating tailored roadmaps with actionable steps for technology upgrades and process improvements, and ensuring alignment with the company's overall strategy. We provided implementation support and monitored progress to ensure successful execution. As a result, the company achieved better resource prioritization, increased operational efficiency, and strengthened its ability to drive sustained growth.
Case Study: Developing a Technology Architecture and Roadmap for Metal Recycler
We developed a comprehensive Technology Architecture and Roadmap for leading scrap metal and recycling company, to support their business goals over the next 3-5 years. Our approach involved identifying current challenges, designing tailored solutions, defining the right technology architecture, and creating a project list to implement these solutions. We also recommended strategies for building, operating, and sustaining these technologies and conducted a cost-benefit analysis to optimize spending. The resulting roadmap provided our client with a clear plan for technology investment, enabling growth, cost optimization, and improved resource utilization, aligning with their business vision for the future.
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