Which companies may benefit from IT City Planning?
IT City Planning addresses the following companies:
Companies with a large portfolio of applications.
Companies that have a long history of using information technologies.
Companies for which information technology is of strategic importance.
Companies that are involved in a merger.
Aims of IT City Planning:
Reusing software resources to avoid the creation of further redundancies.
Reducing maintenance costs by 'block-by-block' overhaul and by defining new software resources that can replace existing resources and cover the various use cases.
Consolidating information systems.
Preparing the deployment of EAI software at a higher level.
Creating an IT city plan is the responsibility of the Integration Competence Center. The plan itself must address both the design pattern and the information and technology architecture.
EAI = Enterprise Application Integration. Company-wide integration of applications. EAI provides the e-business infrastructure. EAI software is the technical middleware required as a prerequisite for implementing an e-business strategy.