Architecture plays a central and increasingly pivotal role in driving both business and technology transformations, largely due to its ability to bridge between strategy and execution, ensuring that technology capabilities are fully aligned with, and directly supporting, the capabilities of the business and of course, its visions and goals.
Technical and business architecture serves as the blueprint that enables agile, scalable operations and systems, capable of driving innovation, supporting operational efficiencies, and meeting evolving customer expectations, realising numerous benefits.
Architecture provides the structure, integration, resilience and adaptability which are the foundations of successful business and technology transformation. Organisations that prioritise architecture are better positioned to realise their business goals, respond to market changes, and sustain growth.
Our extensive knowledge and experience of technology architectures in large financial services organisations, along with insights into modern IT operating models and technology trends, means we can expertly advise on transformation strategies and architecture best practice.
Factoring in key considerations such as strategic alignment, scalability and flexibility, security and compliance, user-centric design and cost-effectiveness, we can support you in creating dynamic services fit for modern business domains, whilst aligning technology with strategic goals and enabling data-driven insights, which are critical in today’s competitive and fast-evolving landscape.
Whether taking responsibility for specific outputs and outcomes, or working as part of a wider client team, Icon’s architects work collaboratively with stakeholders to ensure business change has the right engagement and value from architecture. Icon’s accelerators are applied where benefit will be realised, expediting delivery, reducing risk and leaving behind a legacy of re-usable assets.
Technology strategies and roadmaps are critical in defining, aligning, and guiding an organisation’s approach to implementing and leveraging technology to achieve business goals. Using our tried and tested 3-part approach, we create pragmatic technology strategies along with architecture roadmaps showing how the strategy can be implemented in practice.
Icon's architects can guide organisations in uplifting their Architecture capability to deliver its business priorities. We create a target state view for Architecture, balancing simple remediation with longer-term strategic change, identifying dependencies on investment, resources, or other areas to implement the necessary transformation activities.
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Supporting an ambitious technology transformation by delivering the strategy, roadmap and architectural support
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Designing the target architecture for a Tier 1 UK bank to migrate its FATCA and CRS applications to the cloud
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Data-driven architecture transformation for Commercial Banking
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Icon Solutions has published its 2023-24 Annual Report, demonstrating how new strategic partnerships, product and service innovations, and an ongoing commitment to its people and customers have provided a foundation for the next phase of global growth.
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Icon Solutions today announces it has strengthened and expanded its strategic partnership with NatWest with the appointment of Ian Povey, CIO Payments Technology, and Lee McNabb, Head of Payments Strategy and Partnerships, as Board Observers.
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Icon today announces that it has developed and launched a new SIC5 scheme pack for its Icon Payments Framework (IPF) – the payments solution putting global banks in control – to accelerate support for domestic instant payments in Switzerland.
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