Enterprise Architecture: Services Overview

It allows them to continually align business processes and strategies with the right technology solutions. Enterprise architecture helps busy IT and business executives transform data about technology into powerful management insight

Accenture has more than 20 years of experience working on complex enterprise architecture projects for leading global organizations. We have developed a comprehensive suite of enterprise architecture services—tailored to specific industries—to address the challenge of business-technology alignment.

By implementing our approach to enterprise architecture, many organizations are able to reduce their direct information technology costs by up to 30 percent, while gaining an additional 10-50 percent savings from cost avoidance and risk reduction.

Additional benefits clients can realize by implementing our approach include:

• Increase return on IT investments by more closely aligning them with business needs.
  
  
• Identify areas for cost reduction.
  
  
• Accelerate IT decision making.
  
  
• Expand ability to benefit from technology innovations.
  
  
• Improve speed and reduce risk in implementing enterprise architecture initiatives.
  
  
• Enhance IT staff skills.

By tapping into Accenture’s experienced professionals and robust tools, organizations can design, implement and operate an enterprise architecture that fosters organizational agility and efficiency. This ultimately helps drive high performance.

We offer our clients:

Experience
More than 20 years’ experience working on complex enterprise architecture projects for leading global organizations.

Breadth and Depth of Skills

• Experience in enterprise architecture assessment and implementation via our experienced core group of IT strategy and transformation professionals.

• This specialist team is backed by Accenture’s broad technology and outsourcing team—more than 100,000 people covering the entire range of technology capabilities—and a global network of experienced industry and business process specialists.

Powerful Tools

• Comprehensive project management and advisory services are supported by our enterprise architecture methodology. Our tested methodologies and diagnostic tools minimize duplication of effort and accelerate the attainment of value.

• Industry-specific and standards-compliant architecture tools and methodologies jump-start the early stages of enterprise architecture development. Our end-to-end industry-focused solutions can accelerate our clients’ change programs, enabling a rapid move to dialogue about the target state and—slicing months off the typical lifetime of a change program—positioning teams to realize benefits faster.

Our enterprise architecture approach can be tailored to a company’s needs, from quickly addressing the challenges faced by individual business units, to developing comprehensive enterprise architecture strategies for global enterprises in any industry.

Our supporting services include:

• Custom and framework-based enterprise architecture development
• Enterprise architecture governance and architecture team operating models