THE ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT

At the Forefront of your Enterprise Journey

We’re The Enterproise Architect, and we can’t wait to start working together. Your vision is important to us. We’re eager to map out the needs of your business, and provide the necessary tools to achieve a successful future.

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WHO WE ARE

The Enterprise Architect, we understand that change is not always easy. With over 20 years of IT industry experience we’ve been helping companies of all sizes respond to industry transitions in order to stay competitive. Our years of experience have taught us to always make your business success our priority.

Our team of experts is ready to help you develop strategies for not only surviving, but thriving in the future. Contact us today to set up your first consultation.

Our primary focus is on ServiceNow, Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle and Oracle Peoplesoft. With skills and experience of at least 5+ years in each product or service.

INTRODUCTORY CONSULTATION

Achieve Your Goals

STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSION

Expert Guidance

ARCHITECTURAL BLUEPRINT FOR SOLUTION

Realise your idea

OUR PROJECTS

Helping Businesses Blossom

HR & People (ServiceNow,

Workday & SuccessFactors), ITSM (ServiceNow) & Finance (Oracle)

TRANSFORMATION

A Story of Success

Banking, Finance, Fintech, OIL & GAS MID STREAM

Turning a New Page

CLOUD SAAS DUE DILIGENCE AND SELECTION

An Innovative Solution

CLOUD INDUSTRY TERMINOLOGY

A Story of Success

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

HOW DO I KNOW THAT THE CLOUD ARCHITECT IS THE RIGHT CONSULTING AGENCY FOR ME?

With access to the skills, experience which comes from over 10 years of Cloud architecture, The Cloud Architect can walk the walk in respect to Cloud architecture, selection, due diligence, design, build and implementation.

WE ARE STRUGGLING TO UNDERSTAND CLOUD TERMINOLOGY?

With the ability to explain Cloud in laymans terms without delving into the complex terminology. Keeping the architectural solution simple and aligned to your business needs.

WHAT MAKES THE CLOUD ARCHITECT DIFFERENT?

We can explain how your industry could be Cloud ready and help map out your journey to the Cloud. Explaining the pitfalls to avoid. We use simple language and wont bombard you with techie jargon.

HOW MANY PROJECTS DO YOU HAVE EXPERIENCE ON?

Has supported over 70 Cloud programmes across a different set of customer facing industries. Access to experience of each flavour of Cloud technology architecture and design.

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Cloud Due Diligence

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'To a Head of Business, head of programme delivery, head of cyber/security, CTO'

So you've decided to look at a new HR or Finance solution? Something "on the Cloud" because you have heard that's the place to be? What's your biggest concern? The ability to convince your board to approve the business case? The extended RFP process to look at suitable vendors? The cost and time involved?

You've got a lot to consider and work on, not forgetting the due diligence you'll want to consider these https://thesocialmediamonthly.com/treacherous-twelve-the-top-12-cloud-security-threats/

Cloud Security Alliance (The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is the world’s leading organisation dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment).

Buried within these considerations is your due diligence, seen as one of the top areas of neglect, you only get once chance to perform the first due diligence.

This is the phase of the procurement exercise often left right to the end when you've already made your mind up about the functional and operational fit for your new HR or Finance solution and you've no time, resource or budget left. A poorly performed or rushed due diligence can eradicate any potential savings or benefits which your cloud solution was looking to provide or it can expose your organisation and personal data.

Not all Cloud vendors are equal and even mature vendors such as Workday whilst well respected and has huge clients including Military, Government and Financial Services you will still need to prove to your CTO, Chief Security or Cyber officer, Procurement and Risk officer that you have performed the necessary due diligence.

"The Cloud Architect" a 20 year veteran of technology architecture and 7 year veteran of Cloud procurement to produce specific due diligence process that uses industry leading artefacts to ensure that your potential Cloud SaaS solution complies with all the relevant areas which an organisation needs to consider, together with a final report format which aligns with your business case and technology teams for easy consumption and review.

The template process has been used by small and large organisations alike to perform the technology due diligence activity in days as opposed to weeks.

Without this you could spend weeks with expensive resources from various technology groups within your organisation performing an exercise which has already been done.

The average saving to clients has been around £10k.

The Cloud Architect have worked with with Cloud Security Alliance and matured its processes and reporting to take the strain, cost and complexity out of the due diligence phase.

Vendors like Workday are unique amongst the Cloud SaaS vendors in that they have anticipated their clients questions within their Trust Programme and have already answered the questions for you.

TECHNOLOGY Due Diligence Unlike traditional on premise IT the questions within a Cloud due diligence are very different. Many organisations have yet to embed Cloud within their procurement and due diligence phases and the documentation to assess vendors may not be updated to include for Cloud and specifically for Software as a Service.

Our process will.consider all the key areas (see attached) aligned to service management principles such as ITIL.

The Cloud Architect used and developed this template due diligence process for Workday HR, for the UKs largest retail bank in 2017. It's since been used successfully for a number of clients.

If you'd like further information on the due diligence process and how The Cloud Architect can help then please contact us at TheCloudArchitectScotland@gmail.com