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Enterprise Architecture

ABB Establishes an Enterprise Architecture Practice

ABB, a global leader in power and automation technologies, sought to set up an Enterprise Architecture program to provide guidance on architectural issues. ABB partnered with Infosys to define the... Enterprise Architecture function, and create a Federated ABB Enterprise Architecture Framework based on The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). The framework ensured better alignment and integration between business and IT.

Fleet Management Organization Defines an Architecture Roadmap for its IT Landscape

Using the Architecture Governance framework, Infosys defined an architecture blueprint to rationalize and re-architect the IT landscape of a leading European fleet management firm...

Aetna Optimizes Performance and Scalability of its Web Application

Aetna, a leading healthcare benefits provider, sought to optimize performance and address scalability issues of its WorkAbility® application. The company partnered with Infosys to discover performance... bottlenecks with... an aim to optimize response time and reduce infrastructure costs. By adopting Infosys' DdIR (Discover, define, Isolate & Resolve) framework for post-production performance engineering, Aetna was able to improve the response time on an average by 21% while improving scalability to accommodate immediate growth in business.

Nomura Securities Uses Grid Computing to Engineer Superior Business Performance and Scalability

Nomura Securities partnered with Infosys to address performance and scalability issues in its Interest Rate Risk Analysis application. Infosys migrated the existing application to a grid environment by applying high-performance... computing solutions and using technologies such as C/C++, SUSE Linux and Infosys'Grid Application Migration Framework. Infosys' solution enhanced the application's performance by 150 times.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Charting a Roadmap for Enterprise SOA Adoption

Infosys partnered with a food services distribution firm to define the role that Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) can play in a business transformation initiative. Infosys assisted the client to chart... an SOA adoption roadmap... driven by business needs and to create an SOA reference architecture, a reusable business domain map and a skill adoption plan for SOA.

Healthcare Major Accelerates Time-to-Market using Service-Oriented Architecture

The client, a leading healthcare major, engaged Infosys to implement an SOA framework for transforming its legacy systems. Faced with a portfolio of incompatible legacy systems that hindered its ability to compete, the client embarked on a multi-year business... transformation program to attain market leadership. Infosys partnered with the client to define and implement an SOA framework to accelerate legacy re-vitalization, leading to a nine-month reduction in time-to-market and savings of US$ 12 million in the first year.

Systems Integration

Replatforming Transaction Banking Applications to Enhance Performance

A global bank partnered with Infosys to enhance its performance, reduce business complexities and address obsolescence of key parts of its technology platform. The bank wanted to migrate its... Transaction Banking applications onto a Red Hat Linux platform with Oracle 10g on a grid as the database. Using Infosys' platform services, the bank successfully migrated 1.3 million lines of code and 1 TB of data onto the target platform. In addition, the bank enhanced its performance by increasing transaction capacity by 300% and reducing average processing time by 20%.

Exterran Improves Content Management, Collaboration, Search Mechanism

Exterran improved its content management, collaboration, search mechanism and customer satisfaction by migrating to a collaboration solution... implemented by Infosys and powered by Microsoft Technologies. With this, Exterran was able to win more business, extend its global reach and built customer loyalty.

Retail Major Transforms Enterprise Architecture to Enable Better IT Governance

Tesco, a UK-based international grocery and general merchandizing retail chain, transformed its Enterprise Architecture organization to enable better IT governance and create a shared vision of architecture.... Tesco's architecture group, though technically competent, was unable to articulate value to its stakeholders. The company also faced challenges such as lack of a shared vision of architecture, short-term architecture delivery at the cost of long-term planning, and lack of formal communication of standards. Tesco partnered with Infosys to propose a new operating model for the Enterprise Architecture team. This resulted in a clear demonstration of the value of Enterprise Architecture and consistent and repeatable processes for defining solution architectures among other benefits.