Greenstep’s interim CIO worked with Quanscient senior
management to ensure that Quanscient's enterprise architecture will support the firm's business objectives as the vision is pursued.
Innovative solutions for complex challenges
Quanscient's solutions provide customers with highly scalable simulation capabilities, significantly reducing the time needed for solving complex multiphysics simulation problems. With its strong research and development team, Quanscient has always believed in its value proposition and technology foundation.
As the company has entered the growth trajectory – with more customers to serve, more employees to hire and manage, more marketing and sales activities to follow up on, and increasingly complex finances to control – the leadership realized a need to have a holistic look at the overall enterprise architecture and form a multi-year plan to ensure company's business capabilities are developed in accordance with the growth.
"We have always had a good amount of tech business acumen in-house, so we had some idea about what needs to be done to take the firm to the next level. However, with all the operational work that needs to be done, we struggled to get organized around it, thoroughly analyze our existing and missing capabilities, and have an improvement plan and prioritized roadmap laid out", Quanscient CEO Juha Riippi said.
Addressing development initiatives
As a result, Quanscient had various development initiatives in flight. Still, there was uncertainty if the prioritization was correct and if, in the worst case, something essential for a strong SaaS firm would have been overlooked.
"I'm sure we never did really wrong things on our journey to improve our company continuously. But we weren't always entirely sure if we did the most impactful and critical things for a growing SaaS firm, either", continued Riippi.
Quanscient engaged in an Enterprise Architecture development project. Greenstep’s interim CIO prepared and hosted a series of tailored workshops to analytically review Quanscient's business capabilities, map those to value streams to provide the needed business context and assess the capabilities in terms of their current state and desired future state.
"Workshops were really professionally organized; for us, it was enough just to join and provide our perspective and insights of our business. For instance, we didn't have to start with a blank page when identifying the enterprise architecture content, such as value streams and business capabilities. Instead, the interim CIO provided excellent blueprints and led us through adapting and updating those to reflect our situation accurately."
Documenting enterprise architecture for future success
Today, Quanscient has their enterprise architecture documented and visualized using the TOGAF-depicted value stream and business capabilities: in total, over a hundred capabilities and about a dozen value streams were documented. This provides essential reference material for planning future changes and improvements in any area of the business.
Even more importantly, every capability has been analyzed for improvement needs, and improvements have been prioritized. This provides Quanscient with clear, actionable 3-year roadmap to follow on their journey towards set vision.
"Now we always have a reference to turn to when deciding which projects to start. We also have a tool to follow the progress -- it's great to see how we have already started to improve our capabilities according to the plan, and see yellows and reds turn into green on our capability heat map!" concludes Riippi.
And continues: "In the end, we were surprised at how effortless the whole project was for us."
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Published 18.02.2025