Solution architecture

When user requirements, processes, and business rules have been clearly defined within a company, the ingredients are in place to create powerful IT tools that can enable many of the key goals within a company. But, as any chef can tell you, ingredients do not make the dish. You need the right recipe. Solution architecture provides the recipe that pulls together user requirements, business processes, and business logic within the framework of technology. With the right recipe you will know what tools are best given the desired outcomes. Solution architecture also provides guidance as to implementing and developing technology so that the tradeoffs between costs, performance, reliability, robustness, and the expected lifetime of IT investments are optimized.