Application Architecture Services

Application Architecture Services(AAS) is an advisory offering from HCL to its existing customers to facilitate SOA and Technology-based Transformation. The key services are to manage change of technology and its architecture in customers' organization. This offering is typically targeted at architects and teams that influence Enterprise Application Architecture.

The offering aims to focus on critical enterprise architecture aspects that will impact Application Architecture and business process areas in business-critical applications. The aspects focused on include

• Performance and scalability of applications (high performance computing environments, capacity planning and related areas)

Increased volumes of transactions have driven our customers to find more innovative means to squeeze more juice out of existing investments and also to look at higher-performance environments such as Grid environments, in-memory databases. Identification of the performance needs, benchmark requirements, and capacity planning are critical areas of an architect's role in this environment. Such services are typically needed in the early stages of a transformation opportunity and are sustained by measurements after rollouts.

At an application level, consolidation of best practices to support scalability and high performance is also required so that better knowledge management of an evolved enterprise is available for such requirements.

Natural disasters and man-made disasters like 9/11 have renewed the attention on the availability of applications in enterprises. The infrastructure layers including the implemented Business Continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery mechanisms attend a lot of these requirements

However, changes required to applications, leveraging hardware features and solutions, software components implementation, configuration, and deployment to achieve these availability needs is the focus of this service.

New technologies such as rich clients and Web 2.0, allow enterprises to give a better application user experience.

The focus of this usability service is to help our customers arrive at custom evolved UI needs and associated technology as an element of the enterprise architecture.

This service focuses on how applications will address security aspects over and above the security environment provided. This service is targeted at consolidation of the best practices from a security point of view in software applications.

Open source components are used almost in all enterprises in some form or the other. The focus of this service is to assess the impact of open source components and newer methodologies in enterprise architecture.