Separating two major IT Systems for a Fortune 500 automobile manufacturer
Suresh Jayaraman
Chief Enterprise Architect
The IT systems had to be separated as part of the business sale. It involved clusters of enterprise class applications cutting across several portfolios and different technologies including Mainframe, distributed systems, Teradata, Peoplesoft and several custom developed tightly coupled systems. All the applications and the data had to be separated and cloned at the target infrastructure with optimized capacity, on-prem hosted.
The IT systems had to be separated as part of the business sale. It involved clusters of enterprise class applications cutting across several portfolios and different technologies including Mainframe, distributed systems, Teradata, Peoplesoft and several custom developed tightly coupled systems. All the applications and the data had to be separated and cloned at the target infrastructure with optimized capacity, on-prem hosted.
- Data Dependencies
- System dependencies
- Process dependencies
- Technical dependencies
Design of the Target ecosystem involved several objective and subjective analysis including rationalization of the applications, its business functions, impact to businesses, regulatory compliance requirements, scorecarding criticality , capacity planning, right sizing the Infrastructure etc.
Implementing and cutover involved a well thought out process implementing layer-wise productionizing with nearly zero impact to business operations at both enterprises