Technology Architecture Assessment.

With its primary customer base in Tier 2, Tier 3 cities across the country, SLIC’s operations and business processes were predominantly traditional. Engaged as thought partners on their ‘journey to digital’, we helped them transform their sales and distribution processes using our expertise in design and technology.

Areas examined during the Assessment

  • Existing change management system
  • Compliance readiness of overall architecture
  • Speed at which the systems adapt to changes.
  • Correctness and consistency of the business language and the quality of the business data model
  • Time-to-market for new products
  • Flexibility of the systems/ ability to scale or integrate with aggregators
  • Ease of adopting new technology
  • Employee attitude towards existing internal systems

Process

Identified key business functions
Left Right Mind identified key business functions to get an understanding of the characteristics of the systems delivering these functions.
Extensive stakeholder interviews
Extensive stakeholder interviews, which included key personnel from Business & IT leadership (strategy, marketing, delivery and operations) and the CISO (Chief Information Security Office), helped identify business aspirations and goals.
Unveiling the Context
Outlining the provided a context to the review and enabled the assessment of the current and potential ability of the architecture to scale.
The review attempted to answer the following questions -
The assessment was done in order to have a comprehensive view of the current state, identify immediate opportunities to better utilize the current state in line with the organisation’s aspirations, and finally, propose recommendations on pressing issues, if any.
The following layers were assessed in detail during this investigation -

Assessment Parameters

The review report assessed the fit of each application to meet the company’s objectives, addressed the changes needed in the infrastructure in order to make them effective and verified if the application was a threat to long-term scalability and needed to be reviewed.
Purpose
User Experience
User Interface
Scalability
The assessment was centered around the architectures ability to scale and flexibility to support the growth of the business.

Approach

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