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ArchiMate Support in Enterprise Studio & HoriZZon

June 6, 2019/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Resources /by Raz Mitache

How Does Enterprise Studio Support ArchiMate?

Enterprise Studio is the only EA management suite that provides genuinely native ArchiMate support. This means that, by default, our platform is built with an ArchiMate meta-model and the modeling language we use is ArchiMate. The platform enables users to execute a wide range of analyses on top of the dynamic ArchiMate models, as well as identify and visualize insights to support business decision making. Importantly, BiZZdesign plays a leading role in the development of the standard. As such, we concentrate a considerable amount of expertise in house. This helps us offer customers a superior product and exceptional consulting services, e.g. Enterprise Studio is regularly the first product to implement new versions of ArchiMate and be accredited by The Open Group.

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Analyzing and Changing your Enterprise – Game vs. Play

February 13, 2019/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools, Resources /by Marc Lankhorst and Peter Matthijssen

Much of what we do in the world of enterprise architecture and business process management is based on pre-defined analysis and design techniques, like a game that has a well-defined set of rules and operates within a bounded, predictable universe. You know what the aim of the game is (check-mate your opponent, or reduce the cost of your application landscape, for example) and follow the rules to get the optimal outcome.

Planning & Roadmapping in Enterprise Studio

February 7, 2019/in BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools, Roadmapping Reference, Whitepaper /by Marc Lankhorst

A key driver for management in general and enterprise architecture in particular is to get a better grip on the future, on the evolution of your enterprise. A common technique used to support this goal is roadmapping. A roadmap is a strategic plan that shows the main steps or milestones needed to achieve a desired outcome. It articulates the strategic direction of your enterprise and shows the path forward. It helps you identify what is needed and what the main dependencies and priorities are, and serves as a communication instrument to align the organization along a common course of action.

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Data Analysis with Dashboards in HoriZZon

August 15, 2018/0 Comments/in Application Portfolio Management, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Decision Model Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools, Enterprise Portfolio Management, Infrastructure Architecture Management, Portfolio Management /by Marc Lankhorst and Rob Kroese

In my recent blog post on stakeholder communication, I described various basic forms of communication about architecture, with diagrams, tables, heatmaps and the like. What I did not touch upon in that post is how you can enrich your architecture (and other) models with additional data and display the results in various dashboards. That is the topic of this post.

Agile/DevOps Support in BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio & HoriZZon

July 26, 2018/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Decision Model Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools, Resources, Roadmapping /by Marc Lankhorst

In our previous blog post, we outlined why Enterprise Architecture and Agile/DevOps are key in becoming an adaptive enterprise. We also described several use cases where EA can strengthen Agile and DevOps practices. Now, we want to focus on the ways in which you can connect these in practice, using architecture models and appropriate tool support.

Communicating Architecture with Stakeholders

June 12, 2018/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, BPM, BPMN, Business Architecture, Business Capability, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools, Gartner, Innovation /by Marc Lankhorst

Previously, I have blogged about stakeholder management and showed you some useful techniques to support this important part of enterprise architecture. In this blog post, I want to address different ways to share architecture information with different types of stakeholders involved in changing your enterprise.

How is AI Impacting Your Business?

May 31, 2018/0 Comments/in BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, BPM, Business Architecture, Business Capability, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools, Resources /by Joost Niehof

Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be a buzzword lately, promising techniques and tools that could influence our lives, our work and the way we do business. For many designers and enterprise architects, the question becomes: What would be the role of designers on all levels (strategic, EA, BPM, data, technical) in incorporating AI in a company? There are even ethical questions that may arise when instituting AI in a company, which you must take into account before making the change.

A Pattern for Sizing ArchiMate Diagrams

May 18, 2018/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Capability, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools, TOGAF /by Bernd Ihnen

In my recent blog series, I highlighted the importance of communication for strategic transformations. This affects several functions and various roles in your organization by asking different questions, such as:

Three Key Techniques for Managing Your Stakeholders

May 16, 2018/0 Comments/in Application Portfolio Management, ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Decision Model Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools, Enterprise Portfolio Management, Portfolio Management, Project Portfolio Management, Resources, TOGAF /by Marc Lankhorst

Stakeholder management

Everyone remotely involved with enterprise architecture and similar disciplines knows the importance of knowing your stakeholders. Stakeholder management is a key technique in EA and many methods, including TOGAF, stress its importance. But there is more to management than keeping individual stakeholders happy. In this blog post, I want to introduce three techniques that not only help you ensure stakeholder satisfaction, but also make good use of stakeholders and their influence in achieving business goals.

Supporting Large Architectures as a Team

April 18, 2018/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Business Process Modeling, Capability Based Planning, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools /by Marc Lankhorst and Rob Kroese

Large architectures of big organizations can become quite large and complicated, posing a challenge for the architects developing and maintaining them. In previous discussions, we have addressed a number of techniques for organizing and controlling such large models to keep things manageable. In this installment, we look at the processes and practices you can use to optimize the collaboration between the people working on these architectures.

Combine ArchiMate & TOGAF Standards to Support Digital Change

April 13, 2018/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Capability, Business Model Management, Business Process Modeling, Capability Based Planning, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools, TOGAF /by Bernd Ihnen

In the first blog of this series, I explained how important it is to raise your digital change capability to become an adaptive enterprise. I also highlighted the role of effective communication, as well as approaches to categorize and visualize enterprise architecture descriptions based on the TOGAF and ArchiMate standards. In this series, I also included guidance on which approach to select for modeling Architecture and Solution Building Blocks (both are types of logical or physical components). To round out this series, I will end by discussing the connection to Deployed Solutions.

7 Applications of the Business Model Canvas

April 4, 2018/0 Comments/in Application Portfolio Management, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools, Enterprise Portfolio Management, Infrastructure Architecture Management, Innovation, Lean Management, Portfolio Management, Project Portfolio Management, Resources /by Marc Lankhorst

In an earlier post we introduced the Business Model Canvas™ and discussed pros and cons. We see the pros are far bigger than the cons and many of the cons mentioned are relatively easy to compensate. But in what occasion can you apply the canvas? Read more

6 Ways to Organize Your Architecture Models (Part 2)

April 4, 2018/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Capability, Business Process Modeling, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Security Architecture /by Marc Lankhorst

In the previous installment of this architecture models series, I wrote about organizing your model repository according to business, information and technology domains. I also explained the need to create separate current- and future-state models, and the separation between and model content and views. In this part of the series, I have a few more things to add on the topic of naming and modeling conventions, as well as advice on how to set up governance and quality assurance structure around your models.

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Using ArchiMate to Visualize the TOGAF Enterprise Continuum

March 30, 2018/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools, Enterprise Portfolio Management, TOGAF /by Bernd Ihnen

Previously, I have written about the use of a modeling language and the practical usage of the TOGAF Enterprise Continuum to classify architectural descriptions along different levels of abstraction. In this blog, I’m going to demonstrate how the content of these descriptions can be visualized with a standard notation. While TOGAF 9.1 provides the standard architecture development method (ADM), ArchiMate is the worldwide standard to model and visualize the content of enterprise architectures. Both are a public standard of The Open Group.

6 Ways to Organize Your Architecture Models (Part 1)

March 22, 2018/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Process Modeling, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Infrastructure Architecture Management, Security Architecture /by Marc Lankhorst

If you have some experience in modeling real-life, full-size architectures for large-scale organizations – preferably in the ArchiMate language, of course – you have likely come across the challenge of organizing your models in logical and manageable ways. In this two-part series, we’re going to share our top 6 ways to organize your architecture models. These six methods should help you keep your models neat and tidy while also supporting better outcomes for your strategic initiatives.

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Protect Your Enterprise Analyze Your Security With Architecture Models

March 14, 2018/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Capability, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Security Architecture /by Marc Lankhorst

In a previous blog on cybersecurity, I wrote about the essential steps to keep your organization safe in an increasingly dangerous digital environment:

Cyber Security 5 Steps to Stay Safe in a Dangerous World

March 1, 2018/0 Comments/in BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Decision Model Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools, Enterprise Portfolio Management, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Portfolio Management, Project Portfolio Management, Security Architecture /by Marc Lankhorst

Cybersecurity threats are ever increasing. It is sometimes said there are two kinds of organizations: those who know they have been breached, and those who don’t know it yet. To mitigate the risk and damage associated with cybersecurity, it’s important to know how to assess these risks and improve your defenses via security-by-design. It’s also important to plan for what to do if (and when) things do go sideways.

Transparency: Key Foundation for Change

February 19, 2018/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, Application Portfolio Management, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Decision Model Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools, Enterprise Portfolio Management, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Innovation, Lean Management, Portfolio Management, Project Portfolio Management /by Marc Lankhorst

In modern enterprises, change is no longer a simple, top-down affair. All levels of the organization need to be involved, and everyone from shop-floor employees to the CEO need to work on local improvements to business processes. Lean projects and agile product development teams must rapidly innovate digital environments, strategists need to invent and experiment with new business models, project and program portfolio managers have to decide on investment allocations, and those responsible for domains like risk management and regulatory compliance have to do their part. This “all hands on deck” approach requires enterprise-wide transparency and visibility of plans, structures, opportunities and constraints.

7 Key Strategy Views in Enterprise Studio (part 2)

February 15, 2018/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Capability, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools, Enterprise Portfolio Management, Portfolio Management, Project Portfolio Management, Resources, Roadmapping /by Marc Lankhorst

In my previous blog post, I described how Enterprise Studio supports the Business Model Canvas, Ecosystem maps, Balanced Scorecards including SWOT, PESTEL and Five Forces analysis, and heatmaps to highlight salient information for your organization. Now, I want to focus on more advanced views and analyses that help you evaluate the viability of your strategy and business models and then take steps towards their implementation.

7 Key Strategy Views in Enterprise Studio (part 1)

February 8, 2018/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Business Process Modeling, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools, Gartner, Innovation, Roadmapping /by Marc Lankhorst

A survey conducted by The Open Group in cooperation with BiZZdesign and other partners found that the largest difficulty in strategy process (for over half of the 500+ respondents) is bridging the gap between strategy development and implementation.