Solutions Architecture/Strategy
The process of architecting a Business Solution or the formulation of an IT strategy requires due consideration in the following areas:
Hardware Architecture
- Hardware technology
- High Availability
- Fail over
- Load balancing
- DR
Software Architecture
- Web Server
- Application Server
- Database Server
Functional Architecture
- Aligning business requirements with software either using commercial
- Open source
- Custom built systems
Development
- Packaged solutions
- Custom built
- Integration and components

