When choosing an IT system as an architect, several factors must be considered to ensure the system meets the organization's current and future needs. Here’s a comprehensive list:
- Relevant to Requirement or Align with business goal and relevant to support future growth.
- Impact on business operations
- Scalability and flexibility
- Technology Stack and strong developer community
- Easy to implement
- Ease of use
- Unique feature
- Integration efficient. Easy to integrate with different system.
- Well Documented
- Stable
- Process efficient & Leveraging Best Practices
- Consistent process
- Audit and Security Efficient
- Data management
- Capability to play with Data
- Keep Data secure
- Reporting efficiency
- Automated
- Cost effective
- Upgrade-stable interface/System.
- Upgrade plan period.
- Monitoring and error resolution capabilities
- Future support, upgrade SLAs
- Future roadmap or Plan to stay Market relevant
- Long term goal
- Disaster recovery and Backup