Enterprise Architecture

Ascend believes in driving tangible business and transformation outcomes via EA and therefore utilizes EA being a strategy tool and a “means to an end” of realizing strategy, architecture and executing tangible roadmaps; Specifically, Ascend can help jumpstart or re-vitalize your Enterprise Architecture Program to make it pragmatic and actionable with value realized in incremental journey roadmap.

• EA is methods-based and action-oriented with visible architecture and IT/Technical perspectives that clarify the vision and connects the strategy to realizable blueprint(s).


• We are not vetted to one or more EA methodologies– we have a proven best-of-breed toolkit that essentially leverages TOGAF, Gartner EA model, leanIX, FEAF, DoDAF etc.

Solutions Architecture

Develop actionable solutions architecture and facilitate specific solutioning to various projects, programs and to the business portfolios. Specifically create architecture artifacts that clarifies design, guides solutions development and is often factors solution enablers, accelerators and design options

Architecture Governance

Enable and Advance Architecture governance via review boards that are enabling, empowering, highly collaborative and NOT policing or bureaucratic bodies that slow architecture or solutioning. Right Architecture governance guides the technical debt capture and its reduction over time, reduce TCO and guides the advancement to the future state via a series of sequenced steps with a comprehensive yet integrated approach to people, process and technology.

EA with IT Portfolio Management and Project Delivery

Ascend insists in ensuring EA is well integrated with Portfolio or Project Management office (PMO). Optimizing Demand Management and Opportunity Assessment before the“right demand” becomes projects drives a business-centric approach to Enterprise Architecture. Ascend will help align IT investments with enterprise strategic (business and technology) objectives. We assess and enable prioritization at the portfolio and enterprise level via proven techniques, tools and pragmatic insights. A Portfolio business score that weighs strategic, operational and business case metrics makes the portfolio management discipline, science-based and balanced versus emotional, pet projects that often get funded with no clear line of sight to Value. Right Portfolio Management also optimizes resources coordination and leveling across the Portfolio so trade-offs, risks and opportunities are better understood and managed.