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If done right, enterprise architecture offers tremendous value to a company. It can provide a holistic view of the business and act as a bridge between business vision and direction to operational priorities and the Information technology assets that enable them. However, when enterprise architects operate within the realm of EITA (Enterprise Information Technology Architecture) and focus more on artifacts, rather than outcomes, the value of enterprise architecture diminishes substantively.

If done right, enterprise architecture offers tremendous value to a company. It can provide a holistic view of the business and act as a bridge between business vision and direction to operational priorities and the Information technology assets that enable them.

Typical Scope of Enterprise Architecture Tools:

An average enterprise architecture tool, depending on the extent and the footprint of the solution should include some of the following. Of course, not every software will have every of the following enterprise architecture features and functions:

Enterprise Architecture Strategy and Planning

Business Architecture

Information and Data Architecture

Application Architecture

Solution Architecture

Infrastructure Architecture

Application Portfolio Management

IT Asset Management

IT Portfolio Planning

Please note that this is not an exhaustive listing of all available enterprise architecture platforms. Furthermore, this is not a rating or a full-fledged review of any of the software solutions. A listing of enterprise architecture tools should not be construed as an endorsement of the platforms by Capstera, and an exclusion of any software is not an adverse judgment. You must also realize that your selection of the tool is dependent on your enterprise architecture model and the framework. Last but not least, Capstera and the enterprise architecture tools and platforms listed here do not have any relationship.

Without much further ado, here are a few of the well-known enterprise architecture tool.

A sampling of enterprise architecture tools and platforms:

ISERVER FOR ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

Product: iServer for Enterprise Architecture

iServer for Enterprise Architecture Company: Orbus Software

Orbus Software Website URL : http://www.orbussoftware.com

: http://www.orbussoftware.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/OrbusSoftware

Outline: iServer for Enterprise Architecture is a product designed to act as a long-term, cost-effective way to simplify an organization’s architecture by means of collaborative modeling. Data-driven Microsoft Visio diagrams can be created and stored in an iServer Repository, adhering to all EA standards and offering customized framework support as well.

Product Features:

Microsoft Visio Integration. iServer natively supports Microsoft Visio, allowing businesses to generate models and diagrams that can then be imported into the iServer application.

Central Architecture Repository. Collaborative modeling is managed through one efficient, straightforward point-of-access.

Analysis & Decision Making Tools. Customers can analyze their data with only the most complete, accurate and up-to-date information, putting them in a position to make the most informed, actionable decisions moving forward.

Preconfigured Meta-Model. iServer allows users to employ any modeling notation – including ones like ArchiMate, BPMN, and UML – or design their own.

Architecture Framework Support. iServer provides comprehensive support for many architecture frameworks used today, including but not limited to ones like IT4IT and MODAF.

HOPEX

Company: MEGA

Website URL: http://www.mega.com

Outline:

Hopex from MEGA is an enterprise architecture solution designed to help businesses build a better visual representation of their organization, guaranteeing that technological resources are always mapped towards ongoing strategies, long-term goals, business processes, resources and more. Hopex allows IT leaders to see the impact of their decisions in real-time, enabling them to make the right move at the right time.

Product Features:

Mapping and Streamlining. Hopex includes the tool that let organizations get a macro overview of their entire organization, showing them what they need to implement flexible IT systems and align their operating frameworks with business strategies.

Decision Making and Digital Transformation. Hopex was designed to help businesses of all types not only build quality transition plans but to allow them to compare and prioritize specific tasks to see the impact of decisions in real-time.

Increased Collaboration. Because of the easy-to-use interface, everyone can contribute to an ongoing project instantly. This guarantees that people aren’t just aware of how changes are affecting an entire enterprise, but also provides the critical context of “why” as well.

ARDOQ ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE SOFTWARE

Company: Ardoq

Website URL: https://ardoq.com/

Outline:

As an enterprise architecture tool, Ardoq is intended to be the single platform that businesses need for the mission-critical textual and visual documentation they’re involved with on a daily basis. Ardoq can automatically generate visualizations based on existing data, creating the visibility and agility they need to respond to rapid industry changes.

Product Features:

Consolidate Documentation. Ardoq provides a way for businesses to document processes, integrations, dependencies and more.

Visual Exploration. Ardoq’s built-in visualizations can be used to explore connected components, create new ones and more.

Visual Paradigm

Company: Visual Paradigm

Website URL: https://www.visual-paradigm.com/

Outline:

At its core, TOGAF ADM is a solution that allows businesses to not only learn visually but also to navigate and develop the types of unique deliverables needed at precisely the right moment in each phase of development.

Product Features:

Actionable Guide Process. TOGAF ADM provides modeling tools, samples, guidelines, and techniques – all the visual and actionable activities necessary to guarantee proper development.

Auto Versioning and Deliverable Generation. TOGAF ADM automatically saves work with different versioning from various teams, helping to streamline collaboration and letting businesses keep better track of architecture work in progress.

Corso AGILE ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

Company: Corso

Website URL: https://www.corso3.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cors0

Outline:

Corso’s Agile Enterprise Architecture gives businesses an opportunity to align IT capabilities with strategy objectives, guaranteeing an agility needed to support investment-based decision-making.

Product Features:

Complete Visibility. Corso’s Agile Enterprise Architecture solution was built to allow businesses to plan, analyze and manage change across its IT capabilities.

Reduce Complexity. Corso is also intended for an organization to reduce its architecture complexity, thus supporting both analysis and innovation regarding technology initiatives.

Diagrams. Diagrams can be custom built to give organizations a better opportunity to plan, analyze and communicate architecture.

Drag and Drop Interface. Corso features an easy-to-use, intuitive drag and drop interface that eliminates the learning curve usually required to engage all stakeholders in the collaboration process.

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT

Company: Sparx Systems

Website URL: http://www.sparxsystems.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/sparxsystems

Outline:

Enterprise Architect 13 from Sparx Systems is an integrated modeling platform that offers full lifecycle modeling for business and IT systems, software and systems engineering, real-time and embedded development and more.

Product Features:

Built-in Reporting and Documentation. Enterprise Architect 13 allows for high-quality reporting and documentation, helping to keep track of changes and create a shared vision efficiently and accurately.

Testing and Maintenance Models. Enterprise Architect 13 offers testing and maintenance models using BPMN, SysML, UML and other necessary open standards.

ENTERPRISE STUDIO

Company: BiZZdesign

Website URL: http://www.bizzdesign.com/

Twitter: http://twitter.com/bizzdesign

Outline:

Enterprise Studio from BiZZdesign is a single platform that allows organizations to plan, track and execute change across an enterprise. It includes integrated modeling across many disciplines, increasing the ease at which collaboration, productivity, and change can occur.

Product Features:

Powerful Dashboards. BiZZdesign includes dashboards that support customizable heat maps, tables, graphs and more.

Comprehensive Analysis. With the click of a button, BiZZdesign can show users impact-of-change, cost, risk and benefits assessments.

ABACUS ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

Company: Avolution Software

Website URL: http://www.avolutionsoftware.com/

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/AvolutionAbacus

Outline:

Abacus Enterprise Architecture gives users the ability to not only model businesses, data, application, and technology layers, but also lets them compare multiple alternative architectures from within a single interface.

Product Features:

Choose From Over 100 Industry Standard Modeling Frameworks. Abacus Enterprise Architecture includes native support for TOGAF, ArchiMate, PEAF and more.

Multiple Architecture Analysis. Abacus Enterprise Architecture includes support for sophisticated algorithms and analysis techniques like Discrete Events, Monte Carlo, and others.

CASEWISE SUITE AND CASEWISE MODELER

Company: Casewise

Website URL: http://www.casewise.com/product/modeler/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/casewise

Outline:

Casewise Suite and Casewise Modeler allow a business to capture and document their enterprise architecture, visualizing essential business processes, system interactions, organizational hierarchies and more.

Product Features:

Casewise Modeler. Users are provided with a detailed, multi-dimensional view that allows for stakeholder collaboration so that people can contribute and learn from models that represent a real image of a business’ current state.

Graphical Business Representation. Casewise both supports and accelerates the decision-making and planning processes, allowing people to both conceptualize and incorporate the change in real-time.

QUALIWARE ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

Company: Qualiware

Website URL: https://www.qualiware.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/QualiWareApS

Outline:

Qualiware Enterprise Architecture gives businesses an opportunity to graphically represent all dimensions of a firm, responding to radical changes in technology, culture, and politics as they happen.

Product Features:

Involve the Entire Enterprise. Delegate tasks to particular people, keep domain experts in the loop and allow an organization as a whole to work on a single, standard model of business.

End-to-End Architecture and Analysis. Qualiware Enterprise Architecture offers a holistic view of an organization, graphically representing all strategies, data, systems, resources, and processes – along with the meaningful relationships between them.

ALFABET ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE MANAGEMENT

Company: SoftwareAG

Website URL: http://www2.softwareag.com

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/SoftwareAG

Outline:

Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management enables businesses to gain a complete picture of both IT and more substantial corporate performance, giving them a chance to see how IT is supporting their broader business goals. It is also helpful for uncovering new opportunities and areas where enterprise architecture management techniques can be both deployed and improved.

Product Features:

Describe Complex Systems. Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management gives users a chance to re-define their current IT architecture regarding the factors that matter the most: business, application, information, technical layers and more.

Real-Time Visibility. Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management provides an accurate, instant picture of an IT landscape in a way that is meant to highlight not only applications and technologies but the relationships that exist between them and how they work together.

TROUX ARCHITECT

Company: Troux

Website URL: http://troux.com/

Twitter: http://troux.com/

Outline:

Troux Architect is a solution that is purpose-built and allows businesses to visually represent their processes, their information, their technologies and their interrelationships as they exist today. Using this information as a foundation, it also provides an environment where new opportunities can be uncovered regarding how they might be transformed in the future.

Product Features:

Advanced Reporting and Analytics. Troux Architect lets users employ a series of standard reports aimed at answering critical business questions, providing a holistic overview of the IT landscape in the context of business as it currently operates.

Customized Reporting. Troux Architect also gives users the ability to browse, search, edit and report against existing data stored in the product’s centralized repository, TrouxSource.

Full Bi-Directional Integration. Visual models generated by Troux Architect may be retained in the TrouxSource Platform as well, letting all users search, report and visualize creation as it happens.

The information here is based on publicly available information about the enterprise architecture tools. Capstera team has not used every of these enterprise architecture software solutions. Furthermore, it depends on what enterprise architecture model your company uses and the enterprise architecture framework you have made standard.

Which enterprise architecture tool do you use? Are there any enterprise architecture tools or software platforms or solutions that we are missing here in this list of enterprise architecture tools? Please feel free to share with us.