Stop fighting your systems.
Start working with them.
We help you build Enterprise Architecture that brings business, data, and technology together so your organisation runs smarter, scales faster, and stays ready for what's next - including AI.
- Cut complexity so change becomes effortless
- Turn architecture into a growth advantage
- Make innovation happen by design, not by chance
Enterprise Architecture that connects business, data and technology
Here’s what we see all the time: Enterprise Architecture gets treated like an IT exercise. But that’s not the case – it’s actually a whole-business capability that gets your people, processes, data and technology working together instead of against each other.
We help you design a flexible foundation that cuts through complexity, reduces risk and makes innovation easier – whether you’re scaling up, bringing in AI or just trying to stop drowning in technical debt.
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From Data Architecture to Knowledge Architecture: The future belongs to organisations that understand their data, not just store it.
Why does it matter?
Without architectural alignment, organisations become a mess – disjointed, slow to change and impossible to scale without breaking things.
Here’s what we help you fix:
- Business strategy and technology pulling in different directions
- Teams making decisions in silos that create more problems
- Systems that fight each other
- Duplication and waste because nobody knows what already exists
- Being unprepared for AI because your foundations are shaky
- Constant firefighting instead of building for the future
When you get architecture right, you improve decision-making, align your people and systems and build readiness for whatever comes next – all while moving faster and spending less.
Ortecha has consistently provided experienced data modelling teams with Financial Services knowledge. This is rare and required expertise in the industry.
— Director, Global Investment Bank
What do you get?
We work with you to build living architecture that’s tailored, practical and designed to evolve with your business.
Compliance as a catalyst for change
A client project we’re proud of.
A global investment bank transformed its architecture to power smarter decisions and meet regulatory demands.
The bank was feeling the strain of ever-tougher regulations like BCBS239. Each business unit defined data in its own way, and with thousands of systems and feeds, no one could say for sure what data they had or where it went. We helped them build a coherent data architecture – that made sense of it all, putting shared definitions and clear structures in place.
The difference it made:
- A single, trusted view of data: The new Enterprise Data Model brought consistency across thousands of systems and applications,
- Smarter data flows: Standardising feeds into the new data lake platform allowed the bank to decommission hundreds of legacy interfaces — reducing duplication and cost.
- Confidence under pressure: Clear lineage and models made compliance easier and reporting faster.
Why choose Ortecha?
We don’t deliver shelfware. We design architectures that actually work because we build them with the people who have to live with them every day.
- We care about business results that matter, not pretty diagrams that sit on shelves
- We're agile and adaptive - we work with how you actually operate, not how textbooks say you should
- We connect architecture to AI readiness, data value and what you're actually trying to achieve
- We coach your teams so this becomes something you own and can evolve, not something you depend on us for
- We partner with the best technology providers to match what you specifically need
- All our consultants have been in your shoes - we know what it's like when systems don't talk to each other
Innovation in Real Time
Let's not just talk about what's possible
The Cloud-Based Innovation Lab is where we test, configure and prove out the tools that power real-world data automation.
We build actual working prototypes – AI, architecture, data analytics in action.
You see your data doing real work, not sitting in theoretical presentations.
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Ready to stop fighting your systems and start making them work for you?
Most asked questions
Not even close. It's about how your whole organisation works - people, processes, data and technology. Think of it as a blueprint for making better, faster, more aligned decisions while reducing costs and cutting complexity.
Absolutely. Any organisation dealing with growing complexity can benefit from clarity and alignment. We keep things simple so you get maximum benefit without bureaucratic overhead.
Here's the thing: not investing in EA means you'll spend way more later fixing the mess. Good architecture improves delivery speed, clarity and efficiency across teams. It actually saves time and money.
We design with AI-readiness baked in - ensuring data quality, clear ownership and reusable foundations. This means your AI investments scale and deliver value instead of stalling out.
Data Operating Model focuses on how your organisation interacts with data - the principles, policies, people and platforms around data. Enterprise Architecture is broader, covering all your value streams, business capabilities, and how everything connects together. Your data operating model sits within your enterprise architecture.
Enterprise Architecture is the big picture - making sure your business capabilities, data capabilities and technical capabilities all support what you're trying to achieve. Data Architecture is part of that - specifically organising and structuring data to meet business needs.
