Much of the information system industry is driven by technology. Trade magazines tout the latest products, tools, and standards. Technologies are retooled and repackaged to conform to the latest hype and trends, often forcing IT groups to throw out existing business applications and rewrite new ones from scratch. It seems projects are driven more by technology “fashions” than by the business drivers of the enterprises that sponsor them. This has resulted in short-lived, isolated systems that actually impede the business initiatives of an enterprise. Information Technology should help create business agility that enables an enterprise to be adaptive to the competitive forces of their marketplace; it shouldn’t cause the inflexibility that renders an enterprise non-competitive.

At M.E.T.A., Inc., we are motivated by a vision to help our clients, typically Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies, build systems driven by business requirements more than by technology trends. Our approach, called Archuation™, is to first understand the business processes that will be supported by the system. We model these processes along with the business requirements and business rules. We then systematically transform this Business Model into an architecturally structured software model, which is then implemented using a proven, repeatable methodology following architecturally sound design patterns.

The Archuation™ process has helped our clients build large-scale, highly integrated, enterprise information systems. These systems have enabled our client’s business processes to be streamlined and operate more efficiently and effectively. By implementing systems based on business drivers, we have helped our clients reduce their operating costs while becoming more flexible and adaptive. Our solutions are so effective that they quickly pay for themselves. In short, we have helped our clients invent considerable competitive advantages that can be sustained and improved upon over time.