Proact Advantages

Many IT organizations have begun to explore the merits of Enterprise Architecture as a governing blueprint to align resources and investments. At Proact, we firmly believe that an Enterprise Architecture has to possess the following characteristics to achieve the success anticipated by the organization:

A structure and discipline that consistently aligns IT's resource allocation
with the direction of the business.

A highly intuitive depiction of the interdependent function, resource, and
information flows throughout the Enterprise.

A deployment mechanism that makes the architecture easy to adopt and
use.

Proact has incorporated these characteristics into its Toolkit to develop the following advantages:

1. Holistic modeling includes a framework and methodology that systematically identifies the critical dependencies within operations, information systems, and technology infrastructures that are affected by changes in business strategy. The structure and discipline, embodied in this approach, provides a mechanism to sustain and represent business-driven architectural alignment throughout the Enterprise, as conditions evolve over time.



2. Unique Reference Modeling corrects the inherent flaws associated with the baseline architecture (current state), which has traditionally been used as the starting point for Enterprise Architecture implementations. This results in optimal migrations towards target architectures that represent aligned, responsive, and efficient capabilities. In addition, Proact's industry-specific Reference Models accelerate implementation by 6 to 12 months. To date, Proact has developed the most comprehensive set of Reference Models for High Tech Manufacturing and Retail. They have been successfully implemented at two industry leading Global companies.



3. Services-based architecture that portrays the linkages between functions by the services that they provide to each other. Why a services-based linkage flow? Because it intuitively defines the purpose for each function and clearly expresses what has to be performed (architecture) before the how (design) is implemented. This flow is also very easy to understand, making adoption into design and process an accommodating, rather than hostile, initiative.



4. Total control of R&D for the framework and methodology, and the enabling software modeling tool application results in higher quality assurance and responsive functionality enhancements. This makes the use of Proact's Enterprise Architecture individually pertinent to architects, planners, and designers, which is a requirement for adoption.

In addition, Proact transitions the customer's use of Enterprise Architecture into a disciplined approach with a comprehensive transformation program. This program, enabled by Proact's products and services, creates workflow adoption through an educational process that demonstrates significant milestone capability improvements.