PwC & ASDA · Enterprise architecture
Setting the architecture for a major business separation.
Hands-on enterprise architecture and API strategy to define the integration landscape and technology foundations required to separate Asda from Walmart.
The context
Why the work mattered.
Following the sale of Asda by Walmart, the Future programme was established to separate the retailer’s IT and create a new operating model and underlying infrastructure on Microsoft Azure. PwC brought in AI Digital to add hands-on enterprise architecture capability.
The challenge
What had to change.
The extended architecture leadership team required an experienced enterprise architect to shape the integration landscape, platforms and patterns.
The separation had to account for SaaS applications, legacy systems, on-premise technology, cloud data applications, OS-based agents and critical retail and supply-chain operations.
The action
How AI Digital approached it.
Provided embedded enterprise architecture leadership within the wider PwC and ASDA programme.
Developed the API management strategy and enterprise integration principles across the mixed technology estate.
Designed architecture for API, batch-processing and application integration patterns.
Developed strategy and architecture for the enterprise system schedule supporting critical retail and supply-chain operations.
The outcome
What the work achieved.
Architecture established
Set the architecture required to implement the programme’s enterprise integration principles.
Separation foundations
Created essential foundations for the wider Future separation programme.
Hands-on leadership
Combined strategic direction with practical support to the architecture leadership team.
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