IT Master Plan
Why IT Master Plan "ITMP"?
The heartbeat of any business is its IT and enterprise architecture it’s responsible for running business processes seamlessly, enabling efficient planning and workflow, handling and maintaining functional and clean data, and supporting an environment of collaboration and communication.
So when your business changes or evolves, does its existing IT and enterprise architecture continue to support it?
What we do
MCIS MEA IT Master Plan Advisory
At MCIS MEA, we are providing a unique methodology for planning your IT to meet your business changes:
- IT Master Plan is a roadmap that details how you need to adjust your current enterprise architecture and what software you need to acquire to ensure your current and future corporate objectives are continuously met.
Our ITMP Advisory
Assessment
To build the right ITMP, we assess your company’s current business processes and existing enterprise architecture to clearly understand your business strategy and objectives.
Enterprise Architecture Assessment Benefits:
- Gain a better understanding of your business processes and enterprise architecture
- Identify potential risks and gaps that may have developed over the years
- Eliminate data duplication and redundant or obsolete applications
- Optimize performance and scalability
- Ensure your architecture can handle your current and planned business processes
- Limit manual processes and data management
- Validate and normalize current operational processes
- Understand how to leverage the advantages of the latest technologies available
Enterprise Architecture Assessment
- How to know that your business needs to perform an Enterprise Architecture Assessment?
- You’re acquiring a new software application or system (ex. ERP, CRM, etc.)
- You’re still using Excel spreadsheets for many important processes.
- You have data quality, integration, visibility, or reporting challenges.
- You’ve collected several disparate software systems over the years.
- You’re experiencing problems with your current systems.
- It’s been a while since your last IT landscape checkup.
- Your business is changing (e.g., merger/acquisition, sizable growth or expansion, entering new markets, etc.).
Our Approach
Stage 1:
- Map out a consolidated view of your business strategy, processes, and current enterprise architecture.
- This view encompasses the current and future objectives your company wants to achieve, an overview of operational processes throughout the organization (including manual processes), and a mapping of how processes are handled by current enterprise assets (including add-on and point solutions).
Stage 2:
- Define the targeted enterprise architecture.
- This stage includes aligning your applications with your current and future business processes; optimizing the performance and efficiency of the overall architectural framework, connecting systems, and individual assets; and establishing a tactical deployment plan to minimize maintenance costs and complexities and maximize scalability and flexibility.
Stage 3:
- Build the IT Master Plan.
- This ITMP details the IT and business application projects and acquisitions required to achieve your targeted enterprise architecture. The roadmap includes functional and technical requirements sets that support the ideal architecture, defined IT projects that enable the realization of the master plan, and an efficient, cost-effective deployment plan.