ARCHITECTURE & STRATEGY

Define Your Long-Term Success

Creating impactful and strategically aligned IT architecture is an increasingly complex task. Having the right architecture and strategy can reduce the overall build and run cost while accelerating the project delivery. Good architecture can outline various design and integration patterns and map with platforms, tools and services. Addressing security, user access, data governance, adoptability, monitoring and the operational issues is critical. 

CumulusConnext facilitates the architecture and strategy discussion and create a roadmap for your cloud platform adoption and migration, Hybrid Integration, iPaaS, data lakes and analytics strategy.

CLOUD ADOPTION & MIGRATION

Start Your Cloud Journey

Cloud has been a popular word in last decade, but for most IT folks, cloud is still just a buzz word. To many, cloud means a SaaS solution (SalesForce.com) or an adoption to a cloud platform such as AWS or Azure. There are always concerns about security, access, operations and training the work force. All of those are valid topics for enterprises to consider as part of their cloud adoption and migration journey.

We at CumulusConnext are assisting leading organizations in their cloud adoption and migration journey—whether it’s a SaaS, PaaS, Virtual Private Cloud(VPC), Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS).

DATA & CLOUD INTEGRATION

Connect Your Ecosystem

Integration has become a key enabler for organizational success giving significant competitive advantage. While organizations need to connect their key systems internally to enable various functionalities and optimize their processes, connecting external entities—customers, vendors, suppliers and their own applications in SaaS or cloud—is equally important.

CumulusConnext helps companies identify and connect key systems and information inside and outside of their organizations.

API STRATEGY

Key to Innovation, Connectivity & Data Exchange

As an outcome of Digital Transformation, organizations are looking to speed innovation and time needed to market their products by connecting with customers directly or by rapidly integrating through their partner channels. IT teams must strive to enable and support these changes. Much of this objective is achieved by creating secure, reusable and purposeful services called APIs which enable their organizations and partners to integrate rapidly. CumulusConnext builds API and Microservice structures that maximize efficiency and connectivity.

• APIs (or Application Programming Interfaces) are emerging as a key business capability as organizations move along their Digital Transformation roadmap. APIs are the recommended approach to connect, communicate, exchange data and execute a transactions for all modern systems. Organizations can streamline various services, including Data Assets, Business Processes and User Experience services as APIs.  APIs shield the details about hosting location, application platforms or servers while applying security on access.
  
  Having the right API strategy at the Enterprise level critical to the organizational success. The API strategy should take into account various factors such as security, system access, reusable services, user experience, management and monitoring, governance to name a few things. It should also focus on the longterm rather than tactical.
   
• Microservices architecture provides agility to adopt and innovate quickly, scalability for respond to market demand and to meet the changing market conditions. More organizations are moving to microservices as the basis for their application architecture.

DATA LAKES

The New Data Repository for Your Enterprise

Enterprises are collecting more data as they go through their Digital Transformation journey to enable their analytics platforms. A Data Lake is a centralized repository that allows enterprises to store all relevant structured and unstructured data of any scale in a single repository. Data Lakes can hold a vast amount of raw data in its native format, including structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. Some of this data may not be relevant immediately but it can provide value in the future.

In most cases, the data structure and requirements are not defined until the data is needed. There is not one centralized Data Lake servicing the enterprise as data might be relevant to a LOB, functional area, markets or BU. Additionally, data shouldn’t co-mingle due to regulatory or other concerns.

Data Ingestion, data cleansing and consumption are various stages during the data journey. Building a strategy focused on these can reduce the long term cost while providing greater business values. CumulusConnext will assess your data storage needs and build the Data Lake system that best serves your company.

DATA ANALYTICS

Empower Your Enterprise Decision Making

Data Analytics is powering the data-driven decision making in many different ways. Data analytics examines large amounts of data to uncover hidden patterns, correlations and other insights. With today’s technology, it’s possible to analyze large data sets and get answers almost immediately with solutions like Horton Works, Cloudera or using various AWS services including Kinesis, Elastic MapReduce and RedShift, among others.

Our team of CumulusConnext analytics experts will ensure that you get the most from your data through cutting-edge data analytics.