Technology Standardization and Risk Mitigation

technology standardization benefit

Enterprise Architecture benefit #3

The third most well-known benefit of Enterprise Architecture is visualizing and using the knowledge on the standardization of technology. With this, you can make the organization more secure.

What is Technology Standardization?

Technology Standardization and Risk Mitigation is the process of aligning your applications and IT infrastructure assets to a baseline of standards that are preferred because of the strategy and policies of the organization to reduce risks (or the cost that failure brings). The more standard a solution, the lower the financial risks.

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Technology Standardization Diagram.

How Does Dragon1 Support Technology Standardization?

Dragon1 supports Technology Standardization by helping you create diagrams showing where certain organizations are compliant or not compliant with standards. Dragon1 helps you create diagrams showing what standards organizations need (due to their strategy), how to implement new standards, and how to remove outdated ones.

For instance, you may want to collaborate seamlessly with other organizations or have your business units collaborate more efficiently. You may want everyone to be working with one consistent client view.

You would only look to solutions built on open or prevalent standards. This will make it much easier to integrate processes, services, and applications across organizations. On the Dragon1 platform, you will visualize the standards, solutions, and technologies that organizations use for the same task, as well as those that are open or widely adopted, and learn how to migrate to a uniform landscape of standards.

Different solutions for the same problems and different versions of the same solutions increase costs. Having exotic solutions to common problems or having no standard solutions to standard problems all increase costs. Especially when knowledge is scarce.

Dragon1 is a proven EA platform and open EA method and supports you in standardizing your Business and IT Landscape successfully.

The less diverse (in terms of standards and technologies) an IT landscape is, and the fewer relationships or interfaces there are, the less complex the IT landscape is. Lower complexity leads to higher availability, an improved way of working with the IT landscape, and much fewer risks.

Dragon1 supports you in realizing enterprise architecture technology standardization by creating the following products:

  • Domain Standards overview
  • Standards Baseline
  • Architecture Principles
  • Business and Process Landscape with Standardization and Technology Views
  • Application Landscape with Standardization and Technology Views
  • IT Landscape with Standardization and Technology Views
  • Business Process Diagrams with Standardization and Technology Views
  • Software Application Diagrams with Standardization and Technology Views
  • IT Infrastructure Diagrams with Standardization and Technology Views