Sources and integration
Map systems, frequency, protocols, and suitable batch, API, or streaming patterns.

Architecture only creates value when it fits source systems, team capability, security requirements, and the enterprise growth path.
Discuss your target architectureTechnology choices disconnected from the current environment increase integration cost, create new silos, and transfer complexity into operations. The target architecture must support incremental delivery.
Map systems, frequency, protocols, and suitable batch, API, or streaming patterns.
Define the roles of Warehouse, Lakehouse, data lake, and processing layers.
Design semantic models, data products, APIs, and access paths for BI, applications, and AI.
Embed metadata, quality, lineage, security, monitoring, and recovery from the start.
Clarify service levels, security, scale, skills, and operating cost.
Evaluate architecture alternatives against agreed criteria.
Specify components, data flows, interfaces, and operational responsibility.
Break the target architecture into verifiable delivery stages.
Share your goals, current environment, and priority scope to prepare for a conversation with ICS.