Enterprise Architecture and Integration

3di Enterprise Architecture and Integration services enable business change by creating flexible, manageable, cost-effective integration architectures. We design and implement enterprise integration schemes to help businesses achieve:

• Reduced maintenance costs through standardisation;
• Reduced risk, through increased data quality;
• Increased agility, through de-coupling.

• Event-Driven Architectures (real-time messaging using publish/subscribe, point-to-point, hub-and-spoke, high-volume/low-latency);
• Service Oriented Architectures (including Web services);
• Enterprise Service Bus.

Design

• The business case for implementing a new architecture
• Potential constraints to proposed solutions
• Existing processes and technical landscape
• Organisational capability to implement and adopt a new architecture
• Ways of measuring the benefits realised by a new architecture

Our experience in this field has led us to conclude that Integration Architecture initiatives require considerable attention to the organisation, people and processes, as well as technology, in order to be successful.

Data

The data element of Enterprise Architecture is often addressed as an implementation problem. At 3di we believe that understanding and designing for data is fundamental to most Architecture designs. After all, the identification, storage, mapping and retrieval of an organisation's information is one of the main purposes of most architectures.

As part of an Architecture engagement, typically we will undertake the following:

• Identification of key data elements establish Golden Sources of key data elements
• Verify Reference Data sources
• Create or specify data models in an appropriate format
• Mapping of data flows

Delivery

3di can provide invaluable input at any stage of an integration initiative, from inception through to operational management of systems in a new architecture. We do not consider that architecture should be an ivory tower exercise, since the only real proof of an architectural design is whether it delivers its benefits, once correctly implemented. As such we often operate at the “delivery” end of architecture.

We specialise in delivering the benefits promised by Enterprise Architectures and in managing the technical and organisation complexities that are part and parcel of integration work. We can also provide the people and processes needed to achieve the ROI that Enterprise Integration promises.

Experience

• Event-Driven Architectures (real-time messaging using publish/subscribe, point-to-point, hub-and-spoke, high-volume/low-latency);
• Service Oriented Architectures (including Web services);
• Enterprise Service Bus.

• Implementation of global message buses for distribution of price and trade-related information;
• Use of web services to enhance traditional market data platforms;
• Architectural review and design of enterprise messaging solutions;
• Enabling cross-product and cross-business views of trading activity for risk management and compliance.
• Design and implementation of STP architectures with Business Activity Monitoring for operational management.