Enterprise Architecture Software

EA tools can help in assisting enterprise architects, business and IT leaders in executing business strategies.

Enterprise architecture tools help organizations to build and execute business strategies by creating a model of the organization. These models created aim to provide a basis for designing new systems or replacing existing systems. A typical EA tool can be used for:

  • Enterprise Architecture Strategy and Planning
  • Business Architecture
  • IT Asset Management
  • IT Portfolio Planning
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Enterprise Architecture Software Leaders

According to the weighted combination of 7 data sources

ServiceNow Project Portfolio Management

leanIX

Improvado

BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio

CAST Highlight

What are Enterprise Architecture Software market leaders?

Taking into account the latest metrics outlined below, these are the current enterprise architecture software market leaders. Market leaders are not the overall leaders since market leadership doesn’t take into account growth rate.

ServiceNow Project Portfolio Management

leanIX

Improvado

CAST Highlight

Scientrix

What are the most mature Enterprise Architecture Software?

Which enterprise architecture software companies have the most employees?

97 employees work for a typical company in this solution category which is 76 more than the number of employees for a typical company in the average solution category.

In most cases, companies need at least 10 employees to serve other businesses with a proven tech product or service. 25 companies with >10 employees are offering enterprise architecture software. Top 3 products are developed by companies with a total of 300k employees. The largest company building enterprise architecture software is IBM with more than 300,000 employees.

IBM
OpenText
Software AG
Mega
BackOffice Associates

What are the Enterprise Architecture Software growing their number of reviews fastest?


We have analyzed reviews published in the last months. These were published in 4 review platforms as well as vendor websites where the vendor had provided a testimonial from a client whom we could connect to a real person.

These solutions have the best combination of high ratings from reviews and number of reviews when we take into account all their recent reviews.

What is the average customer size?

According to customer reviews, most common company size for enterprise architecture software customers is 1,001+ employees. Customers with 1,001+ employees make up 55% of enterprise architecture software customers. For an average IT / Tech solution, customers with 1,001+ employees make up 30% of total customers.

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Customer Evaluation

These scores are the average scores collected from customer reviews for all Enterprise Architecture Software. Enterprise Architecture Software is most positively evaluated in terms of "Overall" but falls behind in "Ease of Use".

  • Scenario analysis: Users can generate and compare scenarios automatically to see how changes in a business model affect other models with the help of visualizations.
  • Portfolio management:  EA tools help architects analyze and manage the current status of IT portfolios. These tools can guide technology projects by emphasizing the effects of factors such as cost optimization, income increase, and risk reduction on the portfolio.
  • Requirements management: EA tools support enterprises in the process of documentation, prioritization, and agreement on requirements.
  • Architecture governance and assurance: EA tools help enterprise architects to manage EA assets in a single repository and ensure agreed-on standards created during the architecture creation process.
  • Digital business transformation results in the need for EA tools. As the digital transformation becomes inevitable, EA tools help organizations manage their resources and architect the enterprise without disrupting the core business functions.
  • Cloud computing is another reason why EA tools are becoming more important. As the enterprises migrate from on-premise to cloud, the enterprises should plan their migration operationally and architecturally.

Though companies should follow usual procurement best practices such as minimizing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), the points below are specifically important for EA solutions:

  • Product capabilities: In the selection of EA tool, it is necessary to have a detailed idea about what the product can do. These options may differ as follows.
    • Does the product modeling capabilities include main viewpoints of enterprise architecture
    • Does the product support different decision analysis capabilities?
    • Does the product support different presentation views for different types of stakeholders
    • Does the product include features to administer user access rights and security?
    • Is the product configurable for different types of users and environments?
    • Does the product support frameworks and standards, while enabling customization according to user needs?
  • Integration and deployment:
    • Does the product deliver all features and functions in a readily usable manner?
    • Does the product support integration with the different tools for analytics?
  • Service and support: Product support is an important factor in terms of the usability of the product. Maintenance, training and technical support should be usually available in order to reduce latency on decision making and enterprise management.
  • Cost: EA tool costs increase over time as additional usage of functionality increases. The number of editor user licenses can change the overall cost of the tool. The integration capabilities and training price is another factor that affects cost.
  • Decision support and analysis: EA tools enable users to analyze the different impact factors such as process, IT, employees on enterprise decisions. These analyses can be reported and transferred to managers. Actionable, ready for signature outputs can be delivered.
  • Driving innovation: Business managers and innovation teams use EA tools to plan and implement projects involving new technologies.
  • Digital transformation: EA tools enable companies to rearchitect the organization for digital transformation. Organizations develop a roadmap for the future and they also ensure that the enterprise remains important participants in their ecosystems.
  • Architecture modeling: Enterprise architects can use EA tools to illustrate the dependencies between different platforms, services and databases.

The main benefits of EA tools are both strategic planning and operational management.  

  • Enhancing decision making: Thanks to decision-making algorithms in EA tools, EA tools enable enterprise architects to evaluate their investment and related problems. Thus, EA tools provide improvements in the decision-making mechanism.
  • Improve compliance and risk management: EA tools help organizations adapt their operations to regulatory changes and ensure risk management
  • Create operational efficiencies: EA Tools provide dashboards and visualizations for customizable workflows and evaluation of ideas in order to improve organizational efficiencies.