Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 23 | Page 59

CASE STUDY cloud strategy for the remainder of the year remains in place. “Our various applications need to seamlessly migrate to the cloud,” said Bachoo. “Already, many of them have been architected for it, but we will continue to expand our development to incorporate all essential services for the cloud. “Even though our migration path has not changed, the Knotion Enterprise Architecture as a service approach has enabled us to be more effective and embrace a multi-tenancy way of doing things. www.intelligentcio.com “One of the biggest benefits of using Knotion in this way has been to enable us to explain complex IT infrastructure in business terms. With ‘as a service’, we take away much of the fuzziness generally associated with technology jargon and translate it into deliverables that our business users can understand.” EA for all Knotion is quite excited about this approach as the offering is not limited to large enterprises. “Considering that many SMEs do not have the resources to deliver internal EA capabilities, our solution plugs in to their environment and can be fine-tuned as required,” said Snel. “Even corporates that have seen enterprise architects leave the company or divisions being disbanded, can leverage the offering to streamline and fast track its implementation and management inside the business. “With this, enterprise and solution architectures can be done in a more effective way and we believe it will significantly change how architecture is viewed. It will unlock significantly more value for businesses on the road ahead.” n INTELLIGENTCIO 59