Enterprise Architecture Support:
SAP Enterprise Architecture, Macquarie Hosting

Macquarie Hosting provides reliable and scalable enterprise architecture support for growing Australian businesses. We support multiple enterprise architecture models and have expertise in SAP, Microsoft, Red Hat Linux, Sun and SAI certified hosted business solutions.

Modelling Your Enterprise Architecture

Your enterprise architecture is your detailed map or blueprint of your company’s information systems and technology as they stand today as well as providing explicit plans for future growth. It links your company’s IT resources and business processes through a set of overarching principles to support the business strategy.

Most enterprise architecture models contain four basic domains:

1. Business architecture – documents covering your company’s business processes, company policies, organisational models, desired goals or targets and strategies for achieving those goals;
2. Information or data architecture – a library sorted into searchable and easily-retrievable data sets such as customer and supplier records, supported by metadata for locating and accessing desired information efficiently;
3. Application system architecture – a detailed map of all the software applications used within your company and their relationships to one another (interfaces between applications and links through intranet, Internet, eCommerce sites and to other parties); and
4. Technology Architecture – a detailed map of your company’s technology assets, including hardware, platforms, operating systems, networks and hosting (storage) systems.

Ensuring a Strong Enterprise Architecture

Macquarie Hosting’s experience in developing its own enterprise architecture was aided by an up front examination of all the knowledge and resources relating to our business strategy.

We gained a better understanding throughout the organisation of our immediate, near-future and ideal goals. We now have a sharper focus on all our targets.

Important questions we asked ourselves:

• How does our existing architecture support the business? How does it add value?
• By gaining a clearer view of our immediate, near-future and ideal goals, are we able to refine our existing architecture for greater efficiency?
• What can we change about the architecture to get more value from it? Which changes are possible right now? What timeframes and resources are required to make big changes? Is there a better way of hosting it all?

Supporting Your Enterprise Architecture

Our key differentiator in the hosting market is personalised, accountable service. Macquarie Hosting is proud of its account management team; each member is respected by customers for being genuine, stable in the role and focused on building long term relationships.

Macquarie Hosting is committed to developing and maintaining long-term relationships with customers and can help you select appropriate technology for your business at every stage of growth.

The prime focus of our account managers is the retention of your business. When complimented with our-multi-carrier model, our account managers are uniquely positioned to introduce you to the broadest range of Enterprise Architecture technologies at the most cost efficient price.

The benefit to you is a partnership focused on reducing your total cost of ownership and positioning your business for continued and profitable growth.

Whatever your enterprise architecture hosting support requirements, entrust the industry experts. All our solutions are backed by stringent Service Level Guarantees with cash rebates for under-performance, leaving you with nothing to lose.

Contact Macquarie Hosting today to find out how we can support your enterprise architecture now and in the future.