1 * Why Future-Ready? Technical debt devours 40 % of IT budgets, while market volatility punishes brittle systems. 2 * VSI's Four-Layer EA Stack (a) Capability Map
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Business Outcomes; (b) Domain-Driven Service Mesh; (c) Shared Trust Layer (identity, observability, Fin
Ops); (d) Governance-as-Code (OPA, SLSA). 3 * Zero-Trust DNA m
TLS everywhere, workload IDs via SPIFFE, SBOM scanning at build. 4 * Metrics Lead-time | 45 %, change-failure | 55 %, audit prep | 70 %. 5 * Case Snapshot A federal agency re-platformed 27 apps, saved $18 M O&M, hit FISMA-High. 6 * Operating Model Product funding, platform guilds, quarterly fitness functions. 7 * Road-Map 30-day discovery
- 90-day MVP
- 6-month rollout
- 12-month AI-Ops maturity. 8 *
Conclusion Architecture is no longer documentation–it's a living profit engine. VSI supplies the blueprint and accelerators.
