Enterprise Architecture

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Underpin your enterprise with a secure, reliable, and performant GIS architecture tailored to your organization’s needs.

UDC’s Enterprise Architecture Practice offers IT-focused services aimed at designing, building, and deploying modern GIS architectures. These services are rooted in the core concepts and best practices from industry-leading architecture frameworks while also being innovative and future-oriented to ensure we meet the growing demands of our clients’ digital transformations.

We help to align your organization, information, processes, and technologies with the holistic GIS infrastructure required for your business transformation. This alignment can help support your Business and IT Strategy, mitigate project risk, enable technology-driven innovation, reduce resource costs and complexity, and maximize CAPEX infrastructure investments.

Services Overview

Our Enterprise Architecture services are centered around the following disciplines:

Automation and Administration

Orchestrating core software deployments, upgrades, environment promotions, and infrastructure provisioning through ITOps, SysOps, SecOps, and DevOps processes

Observability and Telemetry

Monitoring system health to proactively gain visibility and insights through collecting and analyzing logs, traces, and metrics

Performance and Scalability

Optimizing systems through best-practice configuration, tuning, and performance testing

Reliability and Durability

Delivering availability and resiliency through well-architected patterns and practices focused on business needs

Security and Compliance

Strengthening security posture and reducing risk through thoughtful design, proper configuration, and vulnerability management

Integration and Efficiency

Envisioning cross-system connectivity with practical touchpoints through effective planning and architecture design

Our Enterprise Architecture Practice offers a wide range of IT/OT services for GIS utilities and infrastructure companies, focused on server, storage, network, database, and cloud infrastructure.

Architecture Accelerators

The following service offerings are shorter-term engagements that target specific business needs we’ve seen throughout our project experience working with our clients:

  • System Architecture Jumpstart – UDC initiates early discussions around your GIS-related architecture needs ahead of implementation projects. We provide the preliminary architecture to help strengthen and support an internal business case common to utilities and infrastructure companies.
  • ArcGIS Monitor Foundation – We help get you started with ArcGIS Monitor by installing the software, applying a basic configuration, setting up notifications and alerts, and conducting knowledge transfer sessions to ensure your system administrators are prepared to operate the software.
  • Cloud Springboard– UDC helps fast-track your move to the cloud. This limited engagement is designed to add quick value for narrow-scoped solutions, such as proof-of-concept efforts and sandbox environments for future go-to cloud initiatives.

System Architecture

UDC reviews your current-state architecture, gathers non-functional requirements, designs your future-state architecture, and implements your new system. Beyond this, UDC can provide the following value add services for the System Architecture offering:

  • Cloud Decision Support
  • Performance Testing
  • Reliability Testing
  • Security Testing

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Cloud Migration

We help reimagine your on-premises GIS architecture by migrating your related infrastructure and enterprise technologies to the cloud. This includes compute, network, storage, database, and security resources along with the core GIS software and your GIS content.

Security Strengthening

UDC reviews your current security practices, processes, policies, and mechanisms to identify potential security threats and mitigate vulnerabilities within your existing system. We also recommend ways to enhance your security posture and harden your system through security scanning and remediation.

Availability Optimization

To determine your existing system’s high availability and disaster recovery needs, UDC reviews your redundancy and recovery mechanisms. This evaluation is accomplished by performing system failover testing, identifying any single points of failure, and perceiving risks to business continuity that may arise from system outages.

System Health Check

UDC reviews the architecture of your existing system and its core software configuration at a high-level to identify anomalies, investigate performance issues, and troubleshoot break-fix issues.

ArcGIS License Roadmap

We facilitate Esri ArcGIS license planning by providing support, knowledge, and expertise for predicting, consolidating, and budgeting for licenses. Additionally, we can help navigate the licensing discussions through our Platinum partnership status with Esri.

Performance Tuning

UDC evaluates the performance of your current system by conducting targeted tests to identify bottlenecks and causes of high-wait times. We provide optimization recommendations that include actionable steps to enhance system performance and improve user experience. This process involves load testing, stress testing, and system reconfiguration.

Core Software Upgrade

Using patches and service packs, UDC performs version upgrades to application and database platforms for major, minor, and dot releases of core software. We ensure these upgrades are in alignment with software product system requirements.

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Build the Foundation for Your Enterprise

Align your organization’s requirements with a scalable GIS architecture. Talk with our specialists to learn how UDC can help erect the framework for your digital transformation.

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