Building repeatable processes that support the quality and maintainability of systems and that are understood and operable by staff has always been a challenge. With the increasing complexity of systems, and the increasingly complex meshing of components of systems into new systems, the maintainability and quality of systems increasingly becomes dependent on parts that the quality of may not be readily known or testable.

A common problem that businesses now face is that the release of new products and services are held up by the risks of breaking existing services because inter-dependencies are not known or understood.

ixa2a offers expertise in two specific areas in order to enable businesses to progress:

1. New developments: leveraging our SPARX architectural expertise we will design and model the processes required in order to develop new systems in maintainable models rather than brittle documentation which is out of date on the day it is written. We can do this for cloud and on-premise developments.

2. Existing systems: leveraging our SPARX architectural we will model existing processes and identify gaps or improvements that are needed in order to get to the required maintainability and quality required.

Using the PPT models we can then help you and your teams to select and implement appropriate tools that will enable the models to be realised by building out development, testing and deployment pipelines.

Typical engagements:

• For due diligence associated with M&A work, build out models that enable maintainability and quality of development of a large number of systems to be evaluated

• Model and select tools for a large Kubernetes based deployment to GCP for an application migration from a monolithic on-premise cluster to cloud.