Enterprise Architecture

KYNITE offers a plethora of Enterprise Services as an outcome of multiple technical proficiencies in concert with many years of practical experience. We categorize these services into three main Enterprise specialties: Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Integration Services and Identity & Access Management.

Enterprise Architecture

A majority of the time the business and decision makers are not technology experts.  This is not a derogatory statement.  A well oiled machine consists of varying parts of performance and the real world is similar by nature.  

When the time comes for the decision makers to build and buy information systems that run their business they turn to the knowledge and expertise of enterprise architects.  Enterprise architecture is a practice and a collection of skills that is used to align technology strategy with business strategy. Business leaders rely on enterprise architects as trusted technology advisors.

Architects are at the center of a group of diverse stakeholders. As a result, they act not only as technology consultants, but also as mediators, ambassadors, and negotiators. They consult with management to help define and document business architecture.

Enterprise architects work with executives to make strategic decisions. Essentially, do we build or buy? What is the ROI on a technology decision? What are the capabilities in which we should invest?

To be proficient they must demonstrate both the technical skills to effectively direct and help coordinate the project activities performed by the software engineers while simultaneously ensuring that the business objectives from the decision makers are satisfied.

This technical ability is not learned - it’s earned.  Developers solve technology problems with software. Architects solve business problems with solutions.

KYNITE believes that the best architects are those who have made their footprint on the development side and ventured down the long winding path toward the business side.  Once they have transformed the path to a straight and easily crossed bridge they have earned their place as an accomplished architect.

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Enterprise Architecture services offered:

• Application Rationalization & Technology Strategy
• Solution & Discovery Assessment
• Solution Blueprint Services
• Reference Architecture Development
• Vendor/ Product Evaluation & Assessment
• Project Discovery & Feasibility Analysis

Enterprise Integration Services

Too many companies today face an undesirable situation in their enterprise architecture.  Legacy systems, new systems and varying applications are difficult to manage and can become increasingly difficult to navigate.  Enterprise Integration Services presents the means to address this situation.

To effectively solve this, KYNITE employs a proven methodology known as Service Oriented Architecture(SOA).  SOA is an approach to systems architecture to deliver seamless cross platform integration.  It’s used to integrate divergent components with a common interface and protocols so they can communicate together.

The advantages attained by completing such an undertaking are as follows:  service re-usability,  easy service maintenance, reliability, availability, scalability, high-quality services, platform independence and increased productivity.

This is one critical area of Enterprise related projects you do not want to make mistakes in.

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Enterprise Integration Services Offered:

• SOA Architecture
• SOA Realization
• SOA Governance

Identity & Access Management

Identity and Access Management(IAM) is the process used in businesses and organizations to grant or deny employees and others authorization to secure systems.  This sounds simple in practice but in an operational environment this is not always the case.

Careful planning is needed to ensure that ONLY the right people have the access to secure systems; be it hardware or software related.  It would be disastrous to the business if access were provided to a secure system (Billing for example) to someone who has no business being there, or worse yet has malicious intent.  In cloud based environments where Software as a Service(SaaS) is standard, charges are incurred by usage and/or time.  People are generally creatures of habit and curious by nature.  If they can see access to something they are more than likely to investigate.

The actual specifics of performing IAM administration can become seriously complex and overwhelming but when planned, provisioned and executed to its tightest restrictions it will have a profound impact on your operational security.

KYNITE has substantial expertise in the four major Cloud based providers (Amazon Web Services(AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Alibaba Cloud) as well as two leading on premise IAM players (SailPoint and Ping Identity).

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IAM technical services offered:

Identity Management - We develop enterprise wide future state IAM architecture and roadmap, which includes the following

• Evaluate and identify key capability gaps in your current Identity management process.
• Prioritize required capabilities and develop an executable roadmap.
• Provisioning, De-Provisioning, Password self- service, Registration self-service, User and Role management, Central Identity store

Access and User Management - We develop enterprise wide future state IAM architecture and roadmap, which includes the following

• Evaluate and identify key capability gaps in your current Access and User management process.
• Prioritize required capabilities and develop an executable roadmap.
• Authorization, Single Sign On, Access logging and reporting, Role based access, Rule based access, Attribute based access, User Metadata Repository, Data Synchronization, Self Service,Delegated Administration

Governance - We develop enterprise wide future state IAM architecture and roadmap, which includes the following

• Evaluate and identify key capability gaps in your current Governance process.
• Prioritize required capabilities and develop an executable roadmap.