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  1. Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise Architecture

Planisware Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a strategic approach to designing, planning, and managing an organization's overall structure and operations, including business processes, information systems, technology infrastructure, and business capabilities.

With Planisware EA plan your transition from the current state to the desired future state of your IT and business capabilities.

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APM Roadmap

SAVE COSTS
 

Rationalize applications, identify synergies,
maximize asset value

REDUCE RISKS
 

Understand dependencies, remain compliant,
address technical debt

ACCELERATE TRANSFORMATION
 

Visualize business outcome
to capability links​

Governance Process

EA is an iterative and ongoing process that requires continuous monitoring, evaluation, and refinement. Regularly review and update the artifacts, assess the impact of changes on the architecture, and adjusts the roadmap and priorities as needed to ensure that the EA initiative remains relevant and effective.

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Enterprise Architecture - Governance Process
Launch

This phase involves defining the scope, objectives, and stakeholders of the EA initiative. It includes establishing governance structures, securing executive sponsorship, and aligning the EA effort with business goals and priorities.

Current State Assessment

In this phase, the organization conducts a comprehensive assessment of its current IT landscape, including systems, applications, data, technology infrastructure, and organizational capabilities. This involves collecting and analyzing relevant data, identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT analysis), and documenting the current state architecture.

Future State Vision

Based on the findings of the current state assessment, the organization develops a vision for the future state architecture. This includes defining target architectures, principles, standards, and guidelines that align with business objectives and address key challenges and opportunities.

Gap Analysis & Roadmap

The organization conducts a gap analysis to identify the gaps between the current state and future state architectures. This involves comparing the current capabilities and architectures with the desired future state, prioritizing areas for improvement, and developing action plans to address the identified gaps. This includes defining a sequence of initiatives, projects, and milestones, estimating resource requirements, and establishing timelines and dependencies.

Project implementation

In this phase, the organization executes the initiatives and projects outlined in the roadmap. This involves implementing changes to systems, applications, processes, and organizational structures, as well as monitoring progress, managing risks, and addressing issues and challenges as they arise.

Enterprise Architecture, the enabler of your IT portfolio practices

Align IT capabilities with business goals and objectives. Provide a structured framework for mapping IT investments to strategic priorities and ensures that technology initiatives support and contribute to the overall business strategy.

Provides stakeholders with the information and insights they need to make informed decisions about IT investments and initiatives. Make data-driven decision-making and scenario planning to minimize risk, optimize outcomes, and align technology investments with business objectives.

Manage complexity by providing a clear and structured view of the IT landscape. Identify and address architectural weaknesses, dependencies, and bottlenecks to simplify your IT environments.

Mitigate long-term costs and risks associated with suboptimal IT systems and architectures by keeping up-to-date technologies and applications.

Bootstrap business transformations by optimizing processes, and facilitating organizational change.

Promotes technology standardization by defining and enforcing technology standards, best practices, and guidelines across the organization.

Enables seamless communication and interaction between applications, systems, and devices. Provides the foundation for building scalable, flexible, and interoperable solutions that drive business growth and innovation.

Need cutting edge Application Portfolio Management (APM) capabilities?

Capture & analyze the most advanced application portfolios at scale. Our software product offers an exceptional new offering to the IT market.

Understand your IT infrastructure with a consolidated view of application lifecycles, metrics including Total Cost of Ownership, TIME status (Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, Eliminate), and more.

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APM Dashboard

Business capability models serve as a tool for Enterprise Architects, enabling discussions about strategic investment or divestment.

With Planisware Enterprise's built-in capability map, you can structure the process of discovering redundancies in IT.

business capabilities management
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Unprecedented access to best-practice blueprints for IT

Is lack of visibility hindering your ability to drive your portfolio and activities as efficiently as you would like? Are you missing opportunities to contribute in a more meaningful way to the organization's strategy?

With over 20 years of dedication to the IT space, Planisware offers models and processes readily available to all.

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