Enterprise architecture assessment, audit and review
An evidence-based view of your current landscape: maturity, technical debt, duplication, risk and alignment to business goals, with a prioritised remediation plan.
Assessment and audit servicesEnterprise Architecture Services
Researchsyn is an enterprise architecture advisory firm. We assess your landscape, design the target state and set up the governance to deliver it, across business, data, application, cloud, security and AI architecture.
Choose a single service or combine them into a full enterprise architecture transformation programme.
An evidence-based view of your current landscape: maturity, technical debt, duplication, risk and alignment to business goals, with a prioritised remediation plan.
Assessment and audit servicesTarget-state design, architecture principles, capability gap analysis and a funded, sequenced transformation roadmap your leadership team can approve.
Strategy and target stateDecision rights, standards and an architecture review board that keeps delivery teams fast without letting the landscape drift.
Governance and ARBCapability maps, application portfolio rationalisation and solution designs that connect strategy to delivery.
Solution architectureReference architectures for cloud, data platforms and integration, covering AWS, Azure and hybrid estates.
Cloud architectureSecurity-by-design patterns and AI-ready architecture, including agentic systems, with the guardrails to run them in production.
Security architectureStakeholder interviews, system inventory and a short architecture questionnaire to baseline where you are.
Maturity scoring, gap analysis and risk review across business, data, application and technology layers.
Target-state architecture, principles and options with costed trade-offs for each major decision.
A sequenced transformation roadmap, governance model and the review cadence to keep it on track.
A defensible architecture position for board conversations, budget cycles and vendor decisions.
Extra senior capacity, frameworks and review support when the team is stretched or being rebuilt.
Fast landscape assessments and integration architecture ahead of consolidation or modernisation programmes.
Enterprise architecture services help an organisation align its business strategy with its technology landscape. They typically include architecture assessment and audit, target-state design, roadmap planning, governance and review board setup, and advisory support for major technology decisions.
An assessment measures overall maturity and gaps against business goals. An audit checks compliance with defined standards, policies or regulations. A review evaluates a specific design, programme or decision. Most engagements combine all three, starting with an assessment to scope where an audit or review adds the most value.
Consulting is the advisory part: independent expertise on strategy, design and decisions. Services is the broader offering, which also includes assessments, governance operation, architecture review boards and ongoing support. Researchsyn provides both, scoped to your maturity and goals.
A focused assessment usually takes a few weeks. A full strategy and roadmap engagement takes longer, depending on the number of business units and systems in scope. We agree a clear scope, timeline and deliverables before work begins.
Both. We often supplement an internal enterprise architecture team with senior capacity, frameworks and an independent view. Where no team exists, we help design the operating model and support hiring and handover.
Most digital transformation programmes start with an architecture assessment, then move to target-state design and a phased roadmap, with architecture governance running alongside delivery. We support organisations across the UK, India and globally, and tailor the approach to regulatory and delivery context.
Yes. Our assessment starts with a structured questionnaire and checklist covering business alignment, application portfolio, data, integration, security, cloud and governance. You can request the scoped assessment on our enterprise architecture assessment page.
Define your architecture priorities and execution roadmap before you scale. Tell us about your landscape and we will scope the right enterprise architecture service.
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