To mitigate risks that accompany the early adoption of a technology, Macklin offers an approach that is based on the premise that the application architecture should be a precursor to the technology architecture especially for new acquisitions or builds.

The risk of early technology lock-in can be mitigated during critical assessments of the business environment through application of enhanced delivery stream analysis and metadata management services required to transition the architecture. A significant feature of this approach is the identification of early opportunities to test and evaluate architectural changes.

Our practitioners bring with them an information architecture prototyping environment that can capture the evolving business architecture in order to identify and recognise the critical aspects of the architecture. The information content captured during the transistion exploration is placed under management and can be validated early and in context. The captured information content is then made available to your targeted management solutions at any time using a standardized metadata interchange format called XMI.

Macklin translates this 'critical mass' of business and information assets into common business nomenclature expressions and business semantic forms that can be positioned as drivers to model-driven architectures and model-integrated applications. These semantic forms may be integrated within new or existing service oriented architecture implementations.