In recent years, companies have been working hard to reduce the cost of IT, which includes the data centers, networks, IT planning, architecture, and software tools that support businesses. In some cases there have been efforts to consolidate, standardize, and streamline assets, technologies, and processes, which have delivered major savings. Yet even the most effective cost cutting program eventually hits a wall due to the complexity of the infrastructure, architecture, and planning challenges.

CTE’s Adaptable and Affordable IT (A2IT) framework provides the basis for managing the entire organization's IT needs, and offers a next-generation plan to revamp technology infrastructure and enterprise architecture. The framework consists of three components: A2IT Infrastructure, A2IT Architecture, and A2IT Planning.

CTE's A2IT architecture approach enables you to transform your existing IT architecture to support a seamless flow of information between departments by classifying applications into different domains, identifying services, and making them share information through standard interfaces.

Our A2IT Planning helps align your IT infrastructure and architecture requirements to enable greater output and flexibility and to boost the more complete utilization of all your assets. Organizations often have a number of legacy and new systems working together. A2IT planning enables them to enhance or modify the viable systems, replace those that are not sustainable, and add new ones, all while ensuring that none of the eliminated systems are necessary in the architecture. A2IT planning is an effective approach that helps you solve IT planning complexities and thereby reduces IT costs.

CTE's Affordable and Adaptable IT is a robust and scalable framework that encompasses infrastructure, architecture and planning to eliminate the integration complexities, rigidity, and duplication of functionality across an enterprise.

A2IT Infrastructure eliminates the build-to-order mindset of an organization's people and enables optimum utilization of the existing IT infrastructure. This is done by identifying present and future infrastructure needs, classifying these needs based on user demands, and creating product portfolios and standardized processes for managing infrastructure needs across the organization.

• Optimization of existing infrastructure and architecture enables greater output and flexibility.
• Eliminates redundant infrastructure.
• Boost the utilization and improved return on assets.
• Reduce connection points from a typical n to 2n.
• Reduce IT infrastructure, architecture and planning costs and complexity.
• Improve time to market for new applications.

CTE is the next-generation business solutions provider, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. CTE is positioned at the heart of technology innovation and thought leadership.

Cambridge Technology Enterprises (CTE) delivers solutions to clients based on the A2IT framework. CTE uses its partner alliances, SEI CMMI Level 5 process, and RAD delivery model to provide rapid value realization to the customer. We provide A2IT consulting services to companies to improve their IT architecture and to consolidate and standardized their hardware and services. Our clients are now running their businesses more efficiently. Our A2IT framework reduces the potential infrastructure cost of an organization by 20%, thereby making the companies more efficient.

CTE can be ideally positioned as your strategic change management partner in building an effective, efficient, and agile IT architecture.

Day-by-day, industry is becoming more competitive. Mergers and acquisitions have become the standard means for companies to expand and increase their market share. To sustain and lead in their market space while managing growth, organizations need to excel in their business and very efficiently build up their organization's value to its stakeholders. This is the right time for CEOs, CIOs, and CTOs to develop an effective, efficient, and agile IT strategy that will help them meet their business goals and corporate objectives.