Architecture services
Architecture that balances strategic direction with operational reality.
UNIFY helps customers define target states, transition paths, integration patterns, and governance evidence for identity, access, security, and platform change.
Architecture outcomes
Architecture work should make change easier to govern and deliver.
Architecture work should do more than describe a preferred future. It should help organizations understand where they are today, what needs to change, what must remain stable during transition, and how to move toward a more secure and governable operating model without creating unnecessary disruption.
UNIFY helps shape identity and security architectures across cloud, hybrid, and legacy environments. That includes target-state architecture, transition architecture, integration design, governance alignment, and implementation roadmaps that connect strategic intent to practical delivery.
A clear target state
Define an architecture that is technically credible, operationally realistic, and aligned to business and regulatory requirements.
A controlled transition
Shape coexistence, sequencing, and migration patterns that reduce risk while existing services remain in operation.
Governance with evidence
Produce architecture that supports assurance, accountability, auditability, and informed decision-making.
A design that can be delivered
Connect strategy, architecture, and implementation so the end state works in the real environment, not just on a diagram.
Architecture domains
Architecture must account for the systems, identities, and controls that already exist.
UNIFY supports architecture across the domains that usually determine whether identity and security change succeeds or stalls.
Identity models
Workforce, privileged, partner, customer, service, and workload identities across regulated and complex enterprise environments.
Authentication and access
Modern authentication, federation, policy enforcement, conditional access, and legacy protocol transition planning.
Lifecycle and governance
Authoritative sources, provisioning, deprovisioning, role and entitlement models, and governance controls.
Application and integration architecture
Identity patterns across SaaS, enterprise, clinical, and legacy applications, including hybrid and private-network dependencies.
Device and platform trust
Architecture for device identity, access context, and secure decision-making across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
Approach
The strongest architectures are practical, defensible, and ready to be implemented.
The strongest architectures are not the most abstract. They are the ones that can be defended, governed, and implemented with confidence.
That often means producing more than a conceptual design. It can include current-state assessments, target-state architecture, transition and coexistence patterns, roadmap options, and material that helps leadership, governance forums, and delivery teams make informed decisions.
Discovery before design
Understand the current state, constraints, dependencies, and stakeholders before locking in the future state.
Practical target-state thinking
Design for the destination while recognizing that coexistence and staged transition are often necessary.
Evidence-led decisions
Base architecture recommendations on risk, operational reality, and measurable control outcomes rather than assumption.
Built for complex environments
Support organizations dealing with multiple platforms, legacy dependencies, regulatory obligations, and governance scrutiny.
Typical outputs
Architecture outputs depend on the decision the organization needs to make.
Related architecture themes
Architecture work often connects to migration, integration, and delivery decisions.
From MIM to Entra
Microsoft Entra
UNIFY supports migration from Microsoft Identity Manager to Microsoft Entra with a practical roadmap for secure modernization.
From OpenText Identity Manager to Entra
Microsoft Entra
UNIFY supports practical transition from Novell, NetIQ, and OpenText Identity Manager environments to Microsoft Entra using staged coexistence and controlled modernisation.
Government Identity Delivery Approach
Industry
A practical, non-prescriptive view of how government identity and access programs are often structured to balance assurance, delivery risk, and operational continuity.
UNIFYConnect
Identity
UNIFYConnect automates identity lifecycle management between authoritative sources, Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, applications, and downstream identity platforms.
Microsoft Solutions Partnership
Partner
UNIFY partners with Microsoft to deliver identity, security, and governance solutions across Entra, Azure, and Microsoft 365.
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