Whether you’re modernising legacy systems, integrating complex platforms, or planning a major digital transformation, solution architecture ensures your enterprise technology is cohesive, scalable, and fit for purpose. At 6B, we provide the frameworks and expertise to help organisations reduce complexity, mitigate risks, and deliver systems that work seamlessly together.
Our architects design solutions that balance agility with governance — creating systems that meet today’s needs while preparing for tomorrow’s challenges. From cloud migration strategies to multi-system integrations, we make sure your technology infrastructure isn’t just functional, but a strategic enabler of growth.
Understanding Enterprise Solution Architecture
Large organisations often face sprawling, disconnected technology estates. Without a clear architectural strategy, systems become fragmented, costly to maintain, and difficult to evolve. Enterprise Solution Architecture addresses these challenges by providing a structured, holistic approach to technology design and decision-making.
At 6B, we view architecture as more than diagrams and documentation. It’s about defining how people, processes, and technology come together to achieve business outcomes. A strong architecture ensures interoperability, scalability, security, and compliance across your digital ecosystem.
We work across industries including finance, healthcare, utilities, and the public sector, where enterprise systems must meet strict standards and handle mission-critical workloads. Our role is to make sure your technology environment supports operational efficiency, delivers reliable performance, and enables innovation at scale.
Our Enterprise Solution Architecture Approach
Every engagement begins with discovery. We assess your current systems, infrastructure, and workflows to build a clear picture of your technology landscape. Through workshops, interviews, and technical reviews, we identify pain points, duplication, risks, and opportunities for optimisation.
We then create architectural blueprints and roadmaps that define how systems should evolve. This includes designing target state architectures, outlining integration strategies, and mapping dependencies between platforms and services. Where appropriate, we develop proof-of-concepts to validate approaches and reduce risk before large-scale implementation.
Our architects focus on key areas including:
- Scalability: ensuring your systems can handle increased demand without compromise.
- Security and compliance: embedding standards and controls into your architecture.
- Integration: enabling seamless data flow across systems, APIs, and services.
- Resilience: designing for uptime, redundancy, and disaster recovery.
- Future-readiness: aligning with emerging technologies and business objectives.
Throughout the process, we collaborate closely with stakeholders, developers, and IT teams to ensure that architecture is not only strategically sound but also practically implementable.
Why Choose 6B for Enterprise Solution Architecture?
At 6B, we combine strategic vision with hands-on technical expertise. Our team of solution architects, software engineers, and business analysts have designed and implemented enterprise architectures for some of the UK’s largest organisations — from cloud-native SaaS platforms to national-scale healthcare systems.
We understand the realities of working in complex environments with legacy systems, multiple stakeholders, and strict regulatory requirements. Our approach is both structured and pragmatic: we deliver architectures that are rigorous enough to de-risk delivery, yet flexible enough to adapt as your business evolves.
Unlike traditional consultancies, we don’t stop at recommendations. We stay involved through design, development, and implementation — ensuring that our architectural strategies translate into working solutions that deliver measurable value.
Selected Enterprise Solution Architecture Case Studies
Explore how we’ve partnered with organisations across sectors to design and deliver enterprise solution architecture solutions that solve complex challenges and drive measurable impact.
NHS South Yorkshire ICB
AI Software to Automate Primary Care Communications
Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Integrating GMCA’s Early Years Service with EMIS and SystmOne
Bradford Council
Empowering Prospects Online with Secure Custom PHP Portals
CAMFED
Enabling Rural Learning Support with an Offline-First Progressive Web App
Readiness checklist for Enterprise Solution Architecture
- Document current system landscape: applications, services, infrastructure, ownership, dependencies, and pain points in maintenance or scalability
- Map business capabilities and processes, aligning them with existing systems and identifying duplication, gaps, and areas for rationalisation
- Inventory integration points: APIs, middleware, messaging queues, data pipelines, and batch processes, with protocols, auth, and SLAs defined
- Define security and compliance requirements: encryption standards, identity/access management, audit trails, data residency, and regulatory obligations
- Capture non-functional requirements: scalability thresholds, resilience/DR expectations, latency/throughput targets, monitoring/observability standards
- Establish technology constraints and preferences: cloud/on-prem, vendor commitments, open-source adoption, interoperability standards
- Identify architectural governance structure: enterprise architects, product owners, security/compliance leads, and technical steering committee for approvals
Speak To Our Enterprise Solution Architecture Experts
Whether you're developing new bespoke software or extending existing software with Enterprise Solution Architecture, 6B brings the software expertise and experience needed to accelerate delivery.
