Concepts
Strategy and architecture snapshots in plain language
Fit gap
Four-way analysis across your enterprise artefacts
Canvas
From to-be design to generated architecture views
Waves
Turning architecture fit gap into a sequenced migration plan
A walkthrough of the Valorica platform
Strategy and architecture snapshots in plain language
Four-way analysis across your enterprise artefacts
From to-be design to generated architecture views
Turning architecture fit gap into a sequenced migration plan
Business architecture (Business Architecture)
A Business Architecture is a structured snapshot of where your organisation is headed strategically, capabilities, mandates, and constraints expressed in a form you can compare and analyse.
Discovered enterprise architecture (DEA)
A DEA is a discovered view of your technology and application landscape, grounded in evidence, not slide-deck fiction.
The journey in one pass
We will move from definitions to a four-way fit gap facsimile, through the canvas where to-be and as-is artefacts are generated, into fit gap summaries, and finish with a wave plan facsimile, then next steps.
Business Architectures & DEAs introduced
Four slots, two rows
Canvas & generation
Summaries → waves
The next section is the four-way analysis surface you use in Valorica Workbench: north-west / north-east for the strategy row, south-west / south-east for the architecture row. You can advance with arrows at any time; click highlighted areas for a guided path.
Place strategy and architecture artefacts, then run horizontal fit gap on each row.
Facsimile of http://4.254.99.44/workbench/workflows/strategy-fit-gap, Enterprise Architect persona. NE (To-Be Business Architecture) and SW (As-Is DEA) populated; Business Architecture inventory above the grid, DEA inventory below; centre spine shows strategy / architecture Run Fit-Gap actions and column generate controls (six function icons).
Six linking icons: two Run Fit-Gap (bar-chart), two column generators (arrow-up / arrow-down), two link markers (link-2), aligned with FourWayAnalysisGrid.tsx.
Shape to-be capability, generate a DEA, and compare with as-is.
High-fidelity CSS facsimile, your to-be model is edited here before a DEA is generated.
Application clusters, interfaces, and data objects (illustrative). In Workbench this view is interactive and evidence-linked.
As-is DEA is placed in the grid; Valorica can propose an as-is Business Architecture read of the current strategy signals.
Strategy row and architecture row outputs, ready for executives.
Capability coverage vs reference: gaps in customer channels; strength in core ledger. Recommended follow-ups: three mandate alignments and two policy updates.
Footnote: Business Architecture terminology available in appendix conversation, not on this headline.
To-be vs as-is: consolidation candidates in integration tier; risk in duplicate customer masters. Wave candidates pre-scored by complexity and mandate alignment.
Connects forward to migration waves, next section.
Sequenced change, informed by the architecture fit gap.
Waves group applications and dependencies so your organisation can execute with controlled risk. The next slide shows a dense planner facsimile, numbers are illustrative.
Illustrative data only, not a live environment.
| Wave | Theme | Apps / services | Effort | Risk | Mandate tag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W1 | Stabilise integration | 12 | Med | Med | Security |
| W2 | Customer data consolidation | 9 | High | High | Privacy |
| W3 | Retire legacy channel | 6 | Med | Low | Cost |
| W4 | Cloud relocation (non-prod) | 18 | Low | Med | Residency |
| W5 | API platform hardening | 7 | Med | Med | Operational resilience |
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