Structuring the design approach
To move forward, MRA determined that they need to adopt some strategic approaches and design models. In doing this, MRA are trying to ensure that industry good practices get incorporated into the future IT landscape.
To this end, MRA looked at several different reference architectures such as IT Strategies from Oracle and Open Modern Software Architecture Project (http://OMESA.io). As OMESA reflects the current thinking and is relatively lightweight, it recognizes the fact that there is an existing IT environment that needs to be accommodated. OMESA is also vendor agnostic.
Top level OMESA architectural view (OMESA.io)
Exploring OMESA
Open Modern Software Architecture Project (http://OMESA.io) is a contemporary vendor neutral reference architecture which while recognizing and supporting more traditional solution models, such as large Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and the use of Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs), embraces and supports a strong API-based philosophy...
