Enterprise Application Integration & Custom Development
Delivering business value for clients requires commitment to a real understanding of client needs, of business problems to be solved and of the processes that are impacted. MSI consultants use this understanding as the starting point for a disciplined, methodical approach to creating new applications and seamlessly integrating them with existing systems and workflows. Once the business objectives are thoroughly defined, MSI's technology agnostic approach allows it to combine the best of new technologies with the client's legacy environment, to create solutions that work, are cost effective, fully integrated, and readily adaptable in the future.

Enterprise Architecture
In today's information driven economy, IT strategy has vaulted to the forefront of critical issues faced by top management. Information technology's potential for value creation or destruction is enormous, and MSI understands this. MSI's Enterprise Architecture services are the foundation of its philosophy of delivering real business results for its clients through the application of technology. The industrial-strength architectural solutions created by MSI's seasoned consultants adhere to three guiding principals, They are:

• Business requirements driven
• Robust and adaptive
• Leveraging existing technology investments

Business requirements driven
An effective enterprise architecture strategy requires an understanding of business requirements and processes in addition to expertise in the relevant technologies. Thus the starting point for each project is a thorough understanding of business objectives, a process that is greatly helped and accelerated by MSI's existing industry-specific know-how.

Robust and adaptive
As IT becomes an ever more strategic factor for success in every industry, a secure and reliable IT environment becomes that much more critical. Yet, it is also clear from the ever-accelerating pace of change in today's competitive business world that any enterprise architecture must be able to adapt quickly to new business and technological realities. MSI's extensive experience allows it to successfully resolve the inherent tension between robustness (security, reliability) and adaptability (openness, scalability, flexibility) of design in arriving at a balanced enterprise architecture.

Leveraging existing technology investments
Coupling grand visions with untried (in the real world) technologies is a recipe for highly visible failed IT projects. MSI takes the opposite tact with an incremental approach that is designed to minimize project risk and maximize project returns by leveraging existing technology investments. One of MSI's strong distinguishing characteristics is the unmatched expertise of its consultants in integrating backwards with legacy technology, including many mainframe-based applications

MSIs' Enterprise Architecture services include:

• Rapid Assessment / Diagnostic
• Technology Strategy / Infrastructure Planning
• Enterprise Application Integration / Middleware Implementation
• Migration Planning
• Information Architecture