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Optimise The Delivery From Your Enterprise Architecture Practice

Take advantage of Real IRM's expertise to grow and sustain your organisation's enterprise architecture practice.

Enterprise architecture can be a powerful business tool for supporting decision-making and enabling business leaders to manage change. It should, however, be available, accessible and intuitive to be effective in the hands of business leaders.

By adopting best practices in outsourcing, Real IRM enables companies to minimise the risks and maximise the benefits of implementing an enterprise architecture.

Outsourcing the management of your enterprise architecture practice to Real IRM will promote specialisation in your organisation, allowing your architects to focus on their core competencies while you farm out your needs to a team of dedicated, expert consultants. This increases a company's intellectual property and results in higher quality products and services all round.

Why outsource?

When enterprise architecture services are in-sourced, the associated tasks are usually performed by one highly experienced architect, who is subsequently required to perform multiple repetitive administrative and support tasks. The result is an ineffective use of resources. Outsourcing frees this individual to focus on creating architectural deliverables that add value to the business.

Satisfying enterprise architecture customer-needs with products of real business value, promotes the growth and sustainability of a business-appropriate enterprise architecture practice. Outsourcing services help to do this by providing:

Effective strategic leadership and management of the enterprise architecture practice;
Effective tactical management of enterprise architecture customer requirements; and
The ability to provide enterprise architecture services specific to business needs, through agility and speed of delivery

Real IRM's outsourcing services

Real IRM provides the outsourced services required to capture, maintain, and communicate all the products of an enterprise architecture, without requiring companies to outsource the actual product content. It is Real IRM's view that the content of enterprise architecture products must be developed and owned by the business itself, with the required experience and knowledge, and that enterprise architecture services are there to enable this process.

Real IRM's outsourcing service is based on a business-appropriate and sustainable enterprise architecture practice that is aligned to the business requirements of the client. The practice is set up in line with TOGAF™ and other enterprise architecture industry standards. The focus of the practice is to deliver high-quality enterprise architecture products appropriate to the identified clients.

Real IRM offers an experienced team that has a spread of skills and an extensive understanding of enterprise architecture. Team members perform tasks that match their individual skill profiles. They can also be allocated more effectively based on the demand for services, thus preventing any potential bottlenecks.

Real IRM offers the following outsourcing services:

The provision of an enterprise architecture environment with the required modelling and publishing tools.
Support for users of the enterprise architecture environment.
Maintenance and extension of the enterprise architecture framework based on agreed requirements.
Management of the content of the enterprise architecture repository to ensure quality and integrity of enterprise architecture products.
The publishing of enterprise architecture repository content in different views aligned to the needs of various stakeholders.
Monitoring of the enterprise architecture effort and the application of corrective action when required.