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Reference architectures, planning guides and review worksheets for AI, data platforms and software modernization. Use them to align your team before implementation.

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A practical working session

  1. 01

    Understand

    Map the workflow, sources and constraints.

  2. 02

    Decide

    Compare the architecture and operating choices.

  3. 03

    Record

    Use the worksheet to capture evidence, owners and open questions.

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AI implementation

Guide + review worksheet

Enterprise AI implementation

Enterprise AI succeeds when the model is connected to a useful workflow, trusted data, measurable evaluation, controlled access, human ownership, and production operations. The implementation challenge is the system around the model.

Take away: A workflow brief, evaluation gate and operating ownership map.

Open Enterprise AI implementation

Guide + review worksheet

Enterprise RAG architecture

Enterprise retrieval-augmented generation depends on much more than connecting an LLM to a vector database. Reliable systems need controlled ingestion, retrieval, permissions, context assembly, citations, evaluation, observability, and clear ownership across the full pipeline.

Take away: A source-to-answer design with separate retrieval and response evaluation.

Open Enterprise RAG architecture

Guide + review worksheet

LLM evaluation

Production LLM evaluation needs repeatable datasets, task-specific criteria, human review, automated checks, regression testing, and monitoring. A model that produces convincing answers is not automatically producing correct or useful ones.

Take away: A representative evaluation set, scoring rubric and release comparison process.

Open LLM evaluation

Data architecture

Guide + review worksheet

Modern data platform architecture

A modern data platform connects ingestion, storage, transformation, orchestration, governance, observability, analytical models, and serving layers into a system that can support reporting, applications, analytics, and AI.

Take away: A layered platform design with data ownership, quality contracts and serving requirements.

Open Modern data platform architecture

Modernization

Guide + review worksheet

Data warehouse migration

A warehouse migration is not simply moving tables between platforms. Models, transformations, reports, pipelines, permissions, schedules, dependencies, and business definitions all need to survive the transition.

Take away: A migration inventory, validation plan and staged cutover decision.

Open Data warehouse migration

Guide + review worksheet

Legacy modernization strategy

Legacy modernisation should begin with application value, risk, dependencies, operational pain, and future requirements. Rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, rebuilding, replacing, and retiring are different tools for different systems.

Take away: A workload decision record and a dependency-aware modernization sequence.

Open Legacy modernization strategy

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