
Traditional Software Tools for Enterprise Architecture
EA Tools are essential for development, presentation and improvement of enterprise architecture strategies, we decided to present the traditional EA tools in this article, together with their biggest benefits and flaws. According to Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools report from 2015, these are the most well-established EA Software tools:
Alfabet Enterprise Architecture ManagementEnterprise architecture management is a great tool for describing complex IT system and development of standards in the enterprise. With Alfabet tool enterprise architects can easily analyze, direct and align the IT sector with the business and achieve successful transformation. The effects of business strategy on the budget, IT productivity and business architecture can be easily understood and managed with Enterprise Architecture Management. This tool also allows easy collaboration of the teams with their platform.
Avolution AbacusAbacus is one of the most powerful tools for modeling and analyzing complex enterprises through people, processes, and technology. Abacus analyzes the costs, performance and reliability between various architectures in order to help enterprises to find the optimal roadmap before the investment. Built on modern Concurrent Versioning System (CVS) Abacus software allows completely distributed collaboration between any numbers of users with revolutionary approach implemented to enterprise architecture.
MEGAMEGA offers products for increasing company's performance through the use of monitoring tools and business modeling. With advanced enterprise modeling techniques, visibility and proper understanding of business operations, IT infrastructure and risks associated with them are easier than ever. All tools distributed by MEGA use the same database, allowing them to be used separately or together, depending on the project requirements.
TrouxTroux provides a set of applications built on a highly scalable platform together with innovative modeling tools. This EA software tool delivers powerful modeling, collaboration and analytic management through a straightforward role-based interface. It has been designed to fit the existing enterprise processes and infrastructures, allowing it to be plugged in directly into any ERP, PPM, CMDB or other systems. Troux also offers TOGAF solution which allows enterprise architects to quickly develop and review models for scenario analysis by using
The Open Group TOGAF 9.
NEW: EAComposer – the new kid on the blockNaturally, the existing landscape has its weaknesses. At the moment, well-established EA tools are:
- expensive and require significant upfront financial investments
- often difficult to use and require lengthy training
- in need of constant maintenance and upgrade efforts
- just adding more work for architects and doesn't really makes EA easier.
That's why the new kid on the block has been added to this article.
EAComposer is a lightweight EA tool with full support for TOGAF ADM, advanced visual modeler, and automatic updates. Installation isn't required, enterprise architects can use it anywhere where they have Internet access. And the best part is - it doesn't require an upfront investment of any kind!
ConclusionAs the competition in the market for EA tools becomes stronger, we can expect more tools with innovative features which will take part in the Enterprise architecture evolution just like EAComposer.
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