Archibus Product Architecture

Sites always deploy Archibus with the intent of delivering measurable business results. For this reason, the Archibus product defines not just the technology architecture but the business architecture for deployments. With this structure, customers can identify the business service and value delivered by the Archibus platform. They can connect the IT-spend on Archibus deployments directly to their strategic business missions and the change programs their division managers have put into action to achieve them.

By leveraging this structure as a whole, large organizations can align multiple levels of management and the multiplicity of user roles to new change programs. Alternately, small organizations or small implementation teams can leverage just one or more rapid-deployment applications to achieve transformative results that have in-year payback and that are visible to top management.

The architecture is described below with these sections:

Business Architecture

Technical Architecture

Differentiators

Business Architecture

Business Architecture Diagram

Strategic management chooses the direction for the upcoming financial quarters and the specific mission goals and KPIs that the organization must focus on to achieve differentiating value. A consumer bank may decide to move its retail services to the Web and instruct its division managers to align to this directive by closing retail offices or repositioning them into wealth management offices. In terms of real estate, they may choose to measure short-term progress by operational cost per square foot, and long-term progress by net revenue per square foot.

Division managers initiate change programs to align the organization the mission. Real estate managers move to capture all relevant costs and properties of their portfolios. Operational managers initiate efficiency programs.

Department managers automate specific business applications that forward the mission objectives. They may use portfolio and lease management applications to tune real estate performance by describing existing holdings and by trimming the portfolio to just those with the highest value to the current mission. Or they may use cost, chargeback, and forecasting applications capture all relevant costs and prorate them to lines of business so that profitability can be gauged on real-world cost data. Workplace applications streamline the process of delivering services to employees and make the staff as a whole more effective at their primary jobs.

The results-oriented application structure runs through every Archibus application. These ensure that even very large deployments can achieve results in steps, with achievable, identifiable goals and in-year paybacks on the investment in automation.

Within each business application, Archibus provides role-based interfaces that let business process owners choose from a large menu of existing workflows, forms, reports, and analyses – or they can author new ones. Self-service customers can then use these services, workflow participants can move work rapidly forward within the workflows, and analysis users can use the reports and analyses to monitor measured results and their status towards mission goals.

Technical Architecture

 

Note: Although the above diagram lists the Sybase database server, this database should not be used for deployment. Also, beginning with V.26.2, the WebSphere and WebLogic application servers are not supported for new customers.

Archibus is a multi-tiered, 100% Web-based application.

Differentiators

Archibus has these distinguishing characteristics.