Information Systems Transformation

Project phase one — initial assessment: detailed assessment

The detailed assessment involved a logical expansion of the enterprise assessment with the enterprise analysis building a foundation for the next set of tasks. We had roughly allotted 60–70 days of time to the detailed assessment task. Steps involved in this assessment included

• Technical architecture assessment
• Data architecture and interface assessment
• Application architecture assessment
• Business logic analysis
• Target financial architecture mapping

Note that the team performing the analysis on the existing systems environment had been expanded at this point to two analysts working at roughly 90% capacity. In addition, we added two tool support analysts to the project for the ...