Enterprise Architecture:
Creating a strategic IT framework that delivers measurable results

SiloSmashers brings you the planning and support capabilities to achieve the full value of enterprise architecture (EA) – with results you can measure.

Our EA solutions help you develop a blueprint for linking IT to your organization’s mission and business strategy. Its value lies in improved IT investment decisions that enhance your business processes, organization and IT environment. An effective EA brings coherence to your IT strategy in a collaborative environment geared to driving Peak Performance® across your enterprise and in your interaction with other agencies.

Bringing Business Discipline to EA

Each EA engagement encompasses three steps:

• Assessment and planning
• Alignment and integration
• Implementation

We augment the steps with specialized services that traditional EA suppliers often lack: program management, capital planning, business transformation, change management, facilitation, collaboration and communication.

Though these capabilities, we help you plan your EA to function like a true business program, focusing on measurable benefits, getting business owners involved and aligning your EA with portfolio management and capital planning.

Our collaborative EA process helps you:

• Engage business stakeholders so they “own” your EA and “buy in” to its value in driving your agency’s IT vision
• Implement this vision through effective IT portfolio management and Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC)
• Manage your EA with the same level of business case and program discipline that you demand of other strategic initiatives
• Work within and leverage cross-agency solutions for maximum value
• Develop an EA maintenance plan to sustain long-term effectiveness and value

Trusted experience

SiloSmashers offers years of experience gained serving the Office of Management and Budget, the Federal Enterprise Architecture and cross-agency initiatives. We understand EA planning and the steps needed to deliver successful results and tangible business value.

Enterprise Architecture Capabilities

EA Program Planning and Management

• Strategic planning
• Program management
• Governance
• Business case, performance metrics and scorecards
• Communications

EA Alignment and Integration

• Portfolio management and capital planning
• OMB and the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA)
• Cross-agency, other governmental and industry partners

EA Execution

• Performance, business, data, component and applications, technology, security
  layer development and simplification
• As-Is, To-Be, transition
• Methodology tools and training