Enterprise Architecture Audit for Sustainable Energy Company Tonik Energy
Technology Category
- Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)
- Other - Battery
Applicable Industries
- Buildings
- Construction & Infrastructure
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
Use Cases
- Inventory Management
Services
- Training
The Customer
Tonik Energy
About The Customer
Tonik Energy is a dynamic, award-winning energy company supplying 100% renewable electricity and green gas to UK homes. The company is striving to create an environmentally and financially sustainable ecosystem which balances the interests of the customer, the nation, and the planet. By 2022, Tonik plans to halve their customers’ energy bills by enabling each customer to control how they generate, store, and use energy, and encouraging the use of renewable energy, microgeneration, and in-home battery storage.
The Challenge
Tonik Energy, a UK-based renewable energy company, was facing a challenge with its enterprise architecture. The company had ambitious growth plans and needed an environment that was simple, easily expandable, clearly understood, maintainable, and supportable. However, the existing architecture was largely cloud-based, using modern development frameworks and technologies, but there were significant gaps in knowledge and documentation. There was also a lack of consistency in the service delivery and change management processes. The architecture owner urgently needed to understand whether the existing enterprise architecture was fit for purpose, both in the short term and for the longer term.
The Solution
To address the challenge, a solution architecture and development audit was proposed. The scope of the audit was extended to include the wider IT function and adjacent infrastructure. Four days of workshops and interviews were conducted with stakeholders across the company, from C-level to developers. The audit used the TOGAF Standard as a reference to carry out and document the findings. The outputs from the audit were a comprehensive report summarising the findings from each of the workshop sessions, and a representation of each of the architecture layers. A detailed risk assessment was carried out to identify improvements and gaps, which were presented as a risk mitigation plan. The plan contained both tactical and strategic actions, grouped by the stakeholders who owned the risks and who were accountable for implementation of the identified actions.
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