Technical Architecture

Your technical architecture sets the blueprint from which all future development will follow, so it needs to be right to begin with. Choose an experienced, versatile team that makes wise application and web systems design decisions.

Home Services Technical Architecture

Does your website have good bones?

A house with good bones—built the right way, the first time—has an enduring structural quality and flow to it. It weathers the seasons, updates with the times, and welcomes all who enter it. It’s a home: not just another building on another street.

We build websites like that.

We conceptualize technical solutions that can grow with your company over the long term

Taking into account what your site needs on day one—while anticipating what kind of a digital asset you’ll require some years from now—we rely on our experience to lay down a sustainable foundation to support future enhancements and scalability.

We can validate for you:

what’s possible (and how)
what’s difficult (or not)
what’s worth it (best practices, always)
what can wait (and why)

Technical architecture plans for migrations, site management, custom workflows, entity relationships, data storage, special security or access requirements and so on.

To communicate the details to you, and internally among ourselves, we produce functional prototypes, ER diagrams, information architecture sitemaps, project roadmaps, requirements documentation, etc.

Our Technical Architecture services include:

Site Maps

Your site map is an origin point, where we define the information architecture best suited to tell your story or guide your audience as simply as possible. From here we can identify strategies for creating the depth and breadth you will require from your content model.

ER Diagrams

Entity reference diagrams describes the relationship between pages, components, categories, tags, and menus. A well thought out diagram will lead to smarter development, better reporting, and a more customized content management experience for site admins.

Workflows

Workflows describe the steps required to complete a goal on a website or in a software application. The workflow could be for an event signup, account registration, or guest checkout for an online store. We can help design and define the workflow updates or additions your organization should prioritize.

Prototypes

Sometimes the success of your project hinges on one core bit of challenging functionality that’s hard to estimate. You need to know it will work before you commit time and budget. In these cases, we recommend a prototype phase to allow us to build a functional proof of concept, from which we can identify the true work required, so you can make an informed decision.

Requirements

Once we’ve defined the site map, designed the database to deliver what’s on our ER diagram, fleshed out the Workflows, and prototyped the advanced functionality, the requirements can be documented. Asking the right questions and understanding your options can make software production more efficient and rewarding per sprint cycle.

Project Roadmaps

The work roadmap, budget, and priority must all work together. We are a dedicated partner to our clients and will work with you to sculpt the plan and road map that fits your organization for today and into the future.

Technical Architecture case studies

Education

Signature Course Stories: transforming undergraduate learning at UT Austin

Signature courses embrace the mission of connecting every first-year student at one of the nation’s best research universities with distinguished faculty members utilizing innovative teaching techniques in unique learning environments. Signature Courses serve 11,000 students per academic year. Entermedia built a visually striking “story” showcase for staff to manage their course information, using a decoupled Drupal architecture.

Arts

Magazzino: celebrating postwar and contemporary Italian Art in the United States

Magazzino Italian Art is dedicated to advancing scholarship and public appreciation of Postwar and Contemporary Italian Art in the United States. The nonprofit museum advocates for Italian artists through curatorial, scholarly, and public initiatives and partnerships. We developed and maintain their Drupal website including an attendance booking platform, event calendar, content management for exhibitions, events, and publications, and custom theming in keeping with their brand guidelines.

Apiece Apart: storytelling and cross selling using Shopify and Drupal

Apiece Apart designs elevated basics for women sold through its website and select stores. Drupal CMS provides the robust content management system for immersive storytelling. Shopify e-commerce platform handles all the processes to support sales. Entermedia developed and maintains the brand’s website which merges Shopify and Drupal together in a seamless integration.

Corporate / Professional

NEC X: launching a revolutionary causal analysis & discovery platform

NEC X, Inc accelerates innovative technology ideas emerging from NEC Laboratories. Entermedia helped NEC X prepare a groundbreaking tool for commercialization opportunities, streamlining the technical architecture for long term maintainability and flexibility. Drawing on our experience with advanced WebOps recipes, front-end frameworks, and entity reference relationships, we delivered a market ready service structure for this amazing new causal analysis and causal discovery platform.

Nonprofit

Trinity Church Wall Street: an integral part of New York City’s history for more than 300 years

Trinity Church Wall Street is a welcoming, inclusive Episcopal community that worships at two historic Lower Manhattan churches – Trinity Church and St. Paul’s Chapel. Online, the church coordinates a multitude of activities and information on its Drupal platform maintained by Entermedia. Over many years, we’ve improved the user experience and scaled the content management system for our clients changing needs, such as enabling video streaming, implementing a custom events system, and much more.

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“From providing support when needed to project leadership when asked, the Entermedia team has always come through for us. We’ve been counting on Entermedia for five years to maintain several high-traffic websites in a competitive space, and have also engaged them for custom design/development projects. This crew does not disappoint. Not only have they enhanced our users’ frontend experience, improving engagement and search performance, they’ve also simplified and streamlined our backend experience, making all of our jobs easier. And we know Entermedia has our back and will reply within minutes via slack or email if we need them. Where would we be without them? Don’t want to know.”

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John W.

Englewood Health

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