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ARIS Solution for Enterprise Architecture Management

Don’t lose sight of the big picture!

Corporate IT resources constitute a complex system. An enterprise architecture (EA) describes this system and establishes standards for creating and updating it. Understanding the system requires a number of views—business processes, organizational structure, applications, data, interfaces, and technologies. Multiple perspectives must be taken into account, ranging from the enterprise view at a highly abstract level to detailed views of individual business units, design aspects, and physical systems and devices.

With the tried-and-tested ARIS Value Engineering for EA procedural model, this solution combines market-leading BPM technologies with global EA standards. It enables customers to plan, visualize and evaluate technologies, processes, data and organizations through a central repository, eliminating redundancies.

The consistent integration of all data in the ARIS Solution for Enterprise Architecture Management means that architecture elements can be reused across all views in the IT Landscape Planning, IT Architecture Management, and IT Design & Development solution scenarios.

ARIS Solution Scenarios

IT Landscape Planning

The main functions of IT Landscape Planning are the comparison of target and actual EA models and the synchronization of global IT strategy with real-world IT environments. Software products and methods assist IT planners and enterprise architects in their program and project management activities.

IT Architecture Management

The IT Architecture Management scenario enables the creation of consistent reference architectures for all organizational units and their implementation in IT projects. Bridging the gap between reference structures and existing architectures is a key task for enterprise architects, application architects and application owners.

IT Design & Development

This solution scenario includes the definition of standards and procedures, their development in a shared repository, and their deployment in day-to-day project situations. IT Design & Development enables enterprise architects, solution architects and IT project managers to implement requirements quickly and efficiently.