Patent ID: 7653525

Claim:
A computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith for causing the computer to create an information technology technical architecture, the computer readable program code comprising instructions for executing the program steps of: identifying a Systems Management solution scope specific to an information technology environment of the customer; inventorying existing information technology and Systems Management components supporting the information technology environment of the customer that are within the Systems Management solution scope; mapping the existing information technology and Systems Management components supporting the information technology environment of the customer to architectural building blocks of a predetermined enterprise service delivery technical model; identifying which architectural building blocks of the predetermined enterprise service delivery technical model are required to deliver the Systems Management services to the customer in accordance with the Systems Management solution scope; and mapping the inventoried existing information technology components that were mapped to the architectural building blocks of the predetermined enterprise service delivery technical model to the architectural building blocks of the predetermined enterprise service delivery technical model that were identified as required to deliver the Systems Management services in accordance with the Systems Management solution scope, this mapping step resulting in a list of design objects and relationships between the design objects that will deliver the Systems Management services in accordance with the Systems Management solution scope.