Our Services Black Pearl provides a wide range of services including but not limited to: Enterprise Architecture Enterprise architecture provides purposeful technology migration to support current and future business opportunities. A typical engagement would include an Enterprise Architecture document that addresses how technology can efficiently support current operations while positioning the organization for growth and new business opportunity. More details Technology Roadmaps As a follow-on activity to Enterprise Architecture, technology roadmaps address specific technology areas. For large organizations with diverse technology accumulated over years and continual demand for new solutions, technology roadmaps provide current and target technology states and high-level strategies to evolve to target states, all within the context of business objectives. More details Technology Integration/Deployment As organizations grow, evolve and integrate or technology infrastructure reaches obsolescence, initiatives are required to implement change. Black Pearl provides a system architecture perspective to ensure objectives and requirements are met in the new infrastructure. We have experience in a number of corporate acquisitions, assisting organizations in integrating diverse infrastructure from the multiple companies. Application Architecture Black Pearl can design and development of multi-tier software architectures, required for building enterprise scale systems to support mission critical business functions. Components can include a software development environment (SDE), remote access, presentation logic, business logic, data access and database elements. EBusiness EBusiness is a critical technology for many organizations. Black Pearl has experience in all aspects, including planning, implementation and mentoring, on major eBusiness initiatives using IBM WebSphere Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE). Disaster Recovery Recent events throughout the world have highlighted the need for business continuity planning. Information Technology's role is disaster recovery. Most organizations have some level of disaster recovery capability but a number of factors have caused them to revisit their plans: The amount of data managed has made traditional recovery impractical Transaction processing directly by customers and business partners has made recovery more critical New technologies has made recovery more complex Black Pearl has experience in developing assessing business impact of disasters, defining recovery objectives and developing disaster recovery strategies.