As the business environment becomes increasingly complex, many companies often need help to accurately assess the status of their IT systems due to the business data in a clutter. Moreover duplicated IT systems and functions can lead to high IT investment costs and hinder them from promoting their digital transformation.
ABeam Consulting's proposed Cyber-Physical Enterprise Architecture* (CPEA) simplifies assessing the current state of business and IT systems, which previously required a high level of expertise and high costs. We do this by making them more transparent and offering actionable insights for further improvements.
This contributes to proper IT system investment, reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) and security risks, and quicker digital implementation.
*CPEA: An initiative that combines business-related data and IT-related data to visualize corporate activities digitally and to create a future outlook by grasping events that might happen.
Digital Strategy Formulation and Facilitation Service driven by Cyber-Physical Enterprise Architecture (CPEA)
Contributing to ongoing business improvements by leveraging CPEA to develop a forward-looking digital strategy for our clients
Background
The root cause why digital strategy formulation and promotion haven't progressed as planned due to cost increases and poor transformation performance
As business environment changes rapidly today, it is essential to “identify the digital elements that promote business growth, integrate them into corporate strategy, and systematically implement and utilize them.” In many companies, however, IT departments face challenges like not fully understanding business processes and their associated IT systems. A lack of clarity in internal business processes, IT system architecture, and data sharing pathways sometimes wastes significant time to accurately assess the current situation and prevent incorrect measures from triggering serious issues. To avoid this situation, it is important to grasp and organize internal business processes and live IT systems daily.
Challenges
In an age where the use of digital is given, the quick formulation of a digital strategy that captures the trends of both business and IT is requested
Pitfalls
- Enhancing system management is requested, given the speed and accuracy required in all kinds of information collection efforts.
- Along with the lack of centralized and consistent management of business-related information, such as workflows, the insufficient consideration given to how to realize use of digital is also hindering business success.
- As Passive system implementation (caused by EOL, version upgrades, etc.) has been normalized, it makes difficult to make decision with forward-thinking, data-driven way.
Approach
CPEA is an initiative combining business and IT-related data to visualize corporate activities digitally. This approach creates a future outlook by grasping what might happen.
ABeam Consulting leverages CPEA to automate collecting internal digital information and cataloging databases to keep its clients’ business and IT up to date. ABeam Consulting helps its clients improve their corporate activities by visualizing the company architecture digitally and using this information to grow its business.
Specifically, ABeam Consulting provides an automation and upgrade-driven approach in each step of (1) collecting information, (2) structuring and analyzing, and (3) supporting decision-making.
Key features
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Automating information collection
Our exclusive CPEA approach enables clients to eliminate the time and effort spent acquiring and collecting data, so that they could automatically clollect and integrate data from various systems with keeping data accurate and up to date.
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Gaining insights by structuring and analyzing data
Organizing and analyzing data in a structured manner facilitates the correct understanding of the meaning of data from both business and IT perspectives before extracting valuable insights.
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Supporting data-based decision-making
Rather than decision-making that relies on instinct and experience, ABeam Consulting supports organization-wide decision-making based on data, and the reliable execution of these decisions.
Step 1: Achieve a seamless and high-quality data integration quickly using our exclusive approach
Our CPEA approach, enables clients to firstly reduce the burden of collecting information regarding various scattered digital elements (infrastructure, middleware, applications, external services, etc.) before automating this series of steps.
Furthermore, our extensive expertise of business and IT ensure that data is collected and stored at the optimal granularity and classification, enabling seamless data integration. This helps clients to provide accurate data visibility and continuously updated information across all layers of our client’s enterprise architecture.
This quickly streamlines the costs of assessing the client’s current state, which previously demanded substantial expertise and resources.
Step 2: Data comprehension and analytical approach to properly grasp company-wide resources
Our approach combines various information related to business and IT, which epitomizes the client as a whole, to present the status of IT systems used in each business and consolidate it into a single repository.
Furthermore, since understanding the interdependencies is crucial as well as just individual businesses, IT systems, and components, we present this information graphically, enabling our clients to understand it correctly.
After quickly grasping a digitalized representation of the client as digital twin based on this information, we structure information and analyze it from various perspectives. This provides valuable insights by enabling us to accurately understand where the client’s resources are throughout the company and whether they collaborate.
Step 3: Data-driven decision-making and team support to realize the ideal digital strategy
Leveraging insights from the client’s digital twin, we offer implication for data-driven decision-making across the client’s organization. This includes resource optimization, governance enhancement, improvement of business process and system performance, and formulation of effective digital strategies.
Furthermore, instead of only the management having data access and decision-making in a top-down approach,
we foster a bottom-up, digital-driven culture as "digital tactics" throughout the client’s organization. This enables on-site employees to understand the importance of data-driven methods, giving them the power to make independent decisions.
Alongside the formulation and standardization of processes to execute digital tactics , we also provide support up to the creation of a feedback loop through iterating partial implementation. This helps to accelerate decision-making regarding proper IT systems aligned with business processes.
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