With MEGA Architecture, Enterprise Architects and IT professionals can build reference maps for describe, analyze, and manage their IT systems, applications and infrastructures. They can effectively efficiently manage IT system roadmaps and lifecycles, define new development plans, and ensure continuous improvement of services delivered to business units.

In conjunction with other MEGA Modeling Suite products, MEGA Architecture combines IT systems analysis with business process analysis and enterprise data analysis to fully synchronize IT investments with business strategy.

Main features

• Application Architecture

- Application break-down into elementary services
- Application portfolio management
- Information Exchanges between Application, Service, Database and Org-Unit
- Application deployment: server, geographic site

• Collaboration between Systems and Partners

- Collaboration protocols
- Collaborative processes

• Information Flow Modeling

- Cross analysis between information exchange and information content
- Information content library (data)

• IT System Business Modeling

(with MEGA Process)
- Cross analysis of IT System Components and Business Functions
- Business Process Application Architecture Diagram
- Cross analysis between Applications/Services and Business Operations/Activities
- IT Systems improvement heuristics based on business process modeling

• System Data Modeling

- Data Models for applications, services, etc.
- Reusable Sub Data Models

• Technical infrastructure

- Geographical site maps
- Technical Infrastructure Models
- Application deployment to technical and geographical architecture

• IT City Planning

- IT City Plan: break-down into Area, Districts, Blocks
- Application City Planning:Definition of IT management rules with an application-by-application conformance evaluation; grouping Applications, Services and Databases into Areas,Districts, Blocks
-  Data City planning: grouping Databases into Areas, Districts, Blocks; Data Channels between Areas
- Validation of IT evolution scenarios with respect to IT city planning criteria (with MEGA IT Planning)

• Service-Oriented Architecture

- Service design
- Service discovery with UDDI, WSDL
- Service assembly
- SOA Maturity Levels
- Functional coverage gap analysis reporting