Enterprise Architecture Management

Complex structures with redundant and insufficiently integrated IT systems are the core problem of evolved IT landscapes. Another consequence of using monolithic systems is the lack of flexibility in adjusting applications to ever-faster changing business requirements. Intransparency leads to high costs in the context of company-wide IT planning. The scope for action becomes increasingly smaller, as available budgets are already consumed by maintenance activities.

The only way out of this dilemma is to implement long-term enterprise architecture management strategies that aim at gradually harmonizing the IT landscape, making it more flexible, and aligning it with the business process requirements.

You can use the ARIS - Alfabet Interoperability Interface to reuse objects from ARIS and Alfabet databases in the respective other system.

ARIS supports all required strategic planning processes, starting from the documentation of the as-is architecture and its analysis through to the design and publication of to-be architectures.

In this way, it is possible to set up company-wide application and technology landscapes, as well as specify, document, and roll out IT standards. Existing system landscapes can be described and analyzed from the strategic overview level to the detailed infrastructure representation level.

To enable efficient and effective IT architecture management and to achieve objectives such as the standardization of the IT landscape, the elements of the architecture framework are mapped in a central repository, as are the relevant relationships. ARIS Method for IT architectures is based on an object-oriented approach for the re-use of architecture artifacts across all views. The interaction of business processes and IT architectures can thus be documented and managed based on an integrated approach. But how do you manage to keep all information up-to-date? IT Inventory is the solution to this problem.

Using IT Inventory, the browser-based tool for decentralized maintenance of IT system information, you can ensure that your IT information is always up-to-date. Role-based access allows all enterprise areas to access the published information.

Software AG or the sales partner responsible will be pleased to help you with the implementation.

Topics

ARIS - Alfabet Interoperability Interface

Enterprise Architecture

Organization architecture

Business architecture

Application architecture

Information architecture

System functions, requirements, project and portfolio management

Process support map

Reports

Further examples for the analysis of data

Method details (attribute table)

IT Inventory

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