The goal of Enterprise Architectural Optimization is to design, implement, manage, and control a comprehensive inventory of business strategy, business processes, organizational charts/job descriptions, system, network and technical interface diagrams and the relationships between them to support decision making at all levels of the organization.

It is critical that the information regarding the inventories and relationships be current to be relevant and useful, and that a process exists to ensure continual migration from the current state to the desired state. This involves closing all gaps between your current strategies and IT capability, while working towards closing the gap between your future strategy and the implemetation of technology solutions to support it.

FTI will assist you in documenting your current state, while formulating a Enterprise Architectural Optimization plan for the future utilizing a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) strategy.

SOA unifies business processes by structuring large applications as an ad-hoc collection of smaller modules called services. The applications can be utilized by groups of people both internally and externally and provide greater flexibility and uniformity, as the user interfaces have the same look and feel and use the same level and type data input and validation and have predetermined protocols as to how one or more 'services' interact. This architecture then relies on a business process expert to link and sequence services, in a process known as orchestration , to meet a new or existing business system requirement.

The goal of SOA is to allow fairly large chunks of existing functionality to be adjoined either through the implementation of third-party technologies, internal applications, or a combination of both as long as the 'services' are standardized.