ARCHITECTURE

Object Edge’s fundamental strength lies in its architectural capabilities. Most of our client engagements start with architecting a major application area, a large business space or even the whole enterprise. Architecture constitutes our core offering.

Business driven architecture - We start all architecture exercises with creating an understanding of the business scenario, the pain points and the business vision. Our productivity frameworks allow us to effectively translate business artifacts to technology parameters and arrive at an architecture which meets your business vision. In many cases Object Edge architects have worked as change agents bringing in innovative contemporary technology solutions and evolutionary ideas delivering genuine business value.

Architectural vision and implementation – "We are not Power Point architects." All our architects have hands-on experience in building powerful IT solutions. One of our biggest differentiators from our competition is that our architects carry an assignment through to implementation. We do not depend on others to implement our concepts.

Architecture synergies with IT Solution Development – A good architecture foundation brings in a host of virtues to any application solution, such as agility, flexibility, re-use, personalization etc. We put our emphasis on well-architected solutions allowing our customers to be a effective as possible in their business space.

Architectural framework – Object Edge uses TOGAF (The Open Group Architectural Framework) as the basis of our approach to architectural development. TOGAF is a definitive and proven step-by-step method for developing and maintaining enterprise architecture. It covers the four principal architecture domains of business, information systems (application and data), and technology infrastructure, and focuses strongly on the need for architecture to support business objectives and requirements. The enterprise continuum depicted in the picture below, represents the architecture/solutions realization of the enterprise from multiple architecture development cycles:

Key Concepts

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) – SOA is a contemporary framework for integrating business processes and supporting technology, as secure standardized components or services. We are strong proponents of SOA and most of our architectures are based on SOA principles.

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) – ESB is the middleware that provides an efficient and reliable messaging infrastructure for the services to communicate among themselves and other internal / external components. Most of our architectural designs incorporate ESB and we have extensive experience working with ESB.

Boundary-less Enterprise – With the advent of SOA and with the emerging trends of supply-chain integration, the need to integrate with industry associations and deploy common standards, the concept of boundary-less enterprise is gaining ground. In keeping with Object Edge’s ethos of bringing the most contemporary concepts and technology to deliver value to the customer, we devise our architectures with boundary-less enterprise as a major architectural guideline.