Digitalization challenges companies to adapt quickly to changing conditions. New business models must be supported from the organization to the IT architecture. The shorter lifecycles and new technologies pose major challenges not only for IT but also for the business. The resulting complexity of legacy architectures can no longer be managed using conventional methods.

To meet this challenge, UNITY relies on a holistic management approach to ensure that business and IT are optimally aligned. In doing so, methods of Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) and capability-based planning are used to make the complexity of growing corporate and IT architectures manageable. Based on the strategy, the required business capabilities and the business processes needed to implement them can be analyzed in order to subsequently determine the appropriate IT architecture.

The goal here is to continuously ensure that the requirements from the business and the solution modules from IT are aligned. It is therefore important to take a holistic view of the business and IT strategy and the corresponding architectures at the business and IT levels so that the necessary initiatives and projects for operationalization can be identified.

This end-to-end view provides a holistic overview at the business architecture level and enables a high degree of flexibility in the IT architecture in order to reduce migration and implementation costs. This increases IT service quality and efficiency when planning new initiatives and projects. Ultimately, this cross-organizational management approach promotes transparency and communication within the company.