Overview

Software systems are continually becoming more complex. As customers demand faster time to market as well as new levels of usability, reliability, performance, and supportability managers have had to manage development costs even more carefully. The following factors adds on to the ever increasing complexity of software development:

	Increasing maturity/complexity to make the existing (J2EE, .NET, .NET Compact Framework etc.) technology more robust, scalable and reduce time to market.
	Increasingly complex business requirements with an ever growing need to collaborate extended supply chain and integrate best-of-the-breed products with existing legacy application.
	Businesses constantly on the lookout for using the power of IT to stay competitive, win customers and reduce cost - such as real-time accurate supply chain visibility, decrease in human-intensive business processes, eliminating the possibility of inaccurate/ inconsistent data capture.
	Rapid changes in the technology space to invent new business opportunities - such as RFID, Mobile devices (Pocket PC, Smart Phones) etc.

The combined effect of all the above is an order of magnitude increase in the complexity of solutions (number of tiers, servers, platforms that integrate together to make the entire distributed system work) being delivered by IT departments and also a significant increase in technical risks involved in most of the projects.

The Global Landmark Architecture and Design service is primarily aimed at easing the businesses of this complexity and effectively addressing the risks.

Global Landmark has a dedicated pool of architects who

	Keep abreast of the new business opportunities and technological advancements to meet those business opportunities.
	Experiment with new technological advancements using POC. Establish best practices.
	Evangelize the knowledge across the organization
	De-risk projects of technical challenges
	Actively participate in complex projects in order to deliver better solutions to customers.

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