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<body leftmargin="10" background="exptextb.jpg" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" text="#000000" link="#666600" vlink="#993300" alink="#CC3300"> <font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"> <p> </p> <div align="left"> </font> <table border="1" width="773" height="77" bordercolorlight="#993300" bordercolordark="#663300"> <tr> <td width="230" height="61" valign="top"> <font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"> <img border="0" src="gbc_logo.gif" width="216" height="24"> <p align="left" style="margin-top: -2"><font size="1"><i>Steve Ornburn, Principal Enterprise IT Architect</i></font></p> </font> </td> <td width="527" height="61" valign="top"> <font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"> <p align="center" style="margin-top: 0"><b><font face="Albertus Extra Bold" size="5"> Enterprise IT Architecture</font></b> <br><i><font face="Abadi MT Condensed Light" size="3">Product-line architectures for enterprise and software-intensive systems</font></i> </p> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="763" height="61" valign="middle" colspan="2"> <font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"> <p align="center" style="margin-bottom: -10"><b><font size="2"><i>This is the no-frames version of our front page, primarily for use by search engines</i></font></b></p> <p align="center"><b><font size="2"><i>Click any link, and we'll redraw it using frames.</i></font></b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="230" height="455" valign="top"> <font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"> <p><a href="http://www.gbc-group.com/What_We_Do.html"><b><font face="Abadi MT Condensed Light" size="2" color="#800000">What We Do</font></b></a></p> </font> <h1 align="left" style="margin-top: -5"><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times" color="#660033"><a href="http://www.gbc-group.com/Who_We_Are_Content.html"><b><font face="Abadi MT Condensed Light" size="2" color="#800000">Who We Are</font></b></a></font></h1> <font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"> <p align="left" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Abadi MT Condensed Light" size="2"><b>Basic Concepts</b> <br>    The role of IT architecture</font><p align="left" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Abadi MT Condensed Light" size="2">    <a href="http://www.gbc-group.com/ArchitectureSkills.htm">What artchitects should know</a> </font><p align="left" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 10"><font face="Abadi MT Condensed Light" size="2">    Architecture qualities <br>    using program families</font> <br><font size="2" face="Abadi MT Condensed Light">      </font> -<font size="2" face="Abadi MT Condensed Light">embedded systems</font><br>      -<font size="2" face="Abadi MT Condensed Light">business systems</font> </font> <h1 align="left" style="margin-top: -1"><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times" color="#660033"><a href="http://www.gbc-group.com/publications.html"><font face="Abadi MT Condensed Light" size="2" color="#800000"><b>Our publications</b></font></a></font></h1> <font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"></font> <h1 align="left" style="margin-top: -5"><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times" color="#660033"><a href="http://www.gbc-group.com/Favorite_Links.html"><font face="Abadi MT Condensed Light" size="2" color="#800000"><b>Resources & favorite links</b></font></a></font></h1> <font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"></font> <h1 align="left" style="margin-top: -5"><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times" color="#660033"><a href="http://www.gbc-group.com/friends.html"><font face="Abadi MT Condensed Light" size="2"><b>Customers, Colleagues & Friends</b></font></a></font></h1> <font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"> <p align="left" style="margin-top: -5"><a href="http://www.gbc-group.com/memberships.html"><font size="2" face="Abadi MT Condensed Light"><b>Memberships</b></font></a></p> </font> <h1 align="left" style="margin-top: -5"><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times" color="#660033"><a href="mailto:sbo@gbc-group.com"><font face="Abadi MT Condensed Light" size="2" color="#800000"><b>Contact us</b></font></a></font></h1> <font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"></font> <h1 align="center" style="margin-top: -5"><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times" color="#660033"><a href="http://www.wwisa.org/wwisamain/board.htm"><img border="0" src="GBCgroup/WWisaFoundingMember.gif" width="80" height="30" align="center"></a></font></h1> <font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"> <p align="center" style="margin-top: -5"><a href="http://www.gbc-group.com/Our_Symbol_Content.html"><img align="center" hspace="20" src="GBCgroup/tetra.gif" vspace="10" NATURALSIZEFLAG="3" width="41" height="47"></a></p> <p> </font></td> <td width="527" height="455"> <font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"></font> <h1><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times" color="#660033"><font face="Abadi MT Condensed Light">What We Do</font></font></h1> <font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"> <p>GBC-Group provides architectural consulting services to developers of software-intensive products and services.  GBC-Group can provide architectural services to your project or can work with you to build your own team's architectural skills.</p> <p> Software architecture includes in its scope</p> <blockquote> </font> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="42"><img src="expbul1d.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13"></td> <td valign="top" width="100%"><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times">Business Architecture, </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="expbul1d.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13"></td> <td valign="top" width="100%"><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times">Application Architecture,</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="expbul1d.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13"></td> <td valign="top" width="100%"><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times">Information Architecture, and</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="expbul1d.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13"></td> <td valign="top" width="100%"><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times">Technical Architecture.</font></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"> </blockquote> <p>As architects, GBC-Group will model and assess your existing architecture, evaluating its overall alignment with the business goals for the product or service. We will also evaluate architectural mismatches within your architecture.  From these evaluations, we will recommend steps to improve the business and internal alignment of your architecture. In some cases, we help the business develop a long term vision for its products and services.  In other cases, we suggest changes that bring the software architecture into alignment with the business vision. Often, architectural renovations are needed to eliminate mismatches, improve interoperability and create a path for the system's continued evolution.</p> <p>GBC-Group carries out these tasks using techniques it has developed or refined. These techniques are used for</p> </font> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="expbul1d.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13"></td> <td valign="top" width="100%"><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times">building architectural models by reverse-engineering legacy systems,</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="expbul1d.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13"></td> <td valign="top" width="100%"><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times">deriving architectural requirements from the voice of the customer,</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="expbul1d.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13"></td> <td valign="top" width="100%"><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times">determining the qualities an architecture needs to have to meet business needs,</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="expbul1d.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13"></td> <td valign="top" width="100%"><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times">evaluating the properties of an existing or proposed architecture, and</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="expbul1d.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13"></td> <td valign="top" width="100%"><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times">synthesizing an architecture to meet business needs.</font></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"> <p>For best results, these techniques should be used as part of an iterative, architecture-centric software life cycle. To this end, GBC-Group also has developed processes to</p> </font> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="expbul1d.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13"></td> <td valign="top" width="100%"><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times">guide the use of an architecture during development and</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="expbul1d.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13"></td> <td valign="top" width="100%"><font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times">validate that a delivered system meets its architectural requirements.</font></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"> <p>The techniques and processes used by GBC-Group provide a comprehensive approach to your software architecture needs. Contact GBC-Group to discuss our architectural services or our approach to developing your own architecture group.</p> <p>For more, click <a href="http://www.gbc-group.com/career.html">NEXT</a>.</p> <p> </font></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times"> </div> </font> </body>