French to English Bus/Financial IT (Information Technology)

I'm not familiar with the term "vision transversale" but based on my limited research in Google it seems to be a bit of a buzz word. I've considered plain old "horizontal view" but it doesn't really nail it in my opinion :(
The specific sentence is as follows:

"La stratégie du système d’information R&D s’axe dès lors sur la définition d’une architecture qui permette une vision transversale et qui définisse"

This is followed by a number of tasks, mainly planning and implementation tasks. If it would help to provide this extra context, just let me know.

All bright ideas much appreciated ;)