Enterprise Architecture
“BiZZdesign allowed us to reduce the time to model a global application landscape with 50%, increasing the knowledge within the company and supporting fast decision-making.”
Enterprise Architecture
As a Head of Enterprise Architecture (EA), you provide crucial support to the technology and business decision makers in your organization. Based on a thorough understanding of the organization’s current business architecture and IT landscapes, you provide senior and C-level management the necessary insights into their various options and alternatives. You need to deliver optimal guidance and direction to lead your organization through business improvements and transformations necessary to execute its strategy. You are also constantly advocating for simplicity to keep the ever-growing complexity of your enterprise in check.
A key challenge to enterprise architecture is delivering business value at speed and providing short-term business outcomes while also executing on a longer-term strategy. Communicating clearly with management about options and alternatives in a complex environment is not easy. To control this complexity, you need to have all the relevant facts at your fingertips, but these are often spread out across many different sources and systems. So, the question becomes: How do you ensure your architecture practice is well-aligned with stakeholders’ needs and the organization’s strategy?
BiZZdesign’s platform provide enterprise architects with a single, model-based source of truth on your enterprise architecture and all relevant related domains, including:
• Business process management
• Application architecture
• Data management
• Strategy models
• Project, program, and IT portfolios
• Business enterprise architecture
Our user-friendly HoriZZon portal offers clear dashboards for decision makers. Our standards-based implementation also makes it easy to link up with other systems to create an integrated view of your enterprise.
Data Analysis with Dashboards in HoriZZon
/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 KroeseIn 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 […]
Practical ArchiMate Viewpoints for the Application Layer
/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, Blog, BPM, BPMN, Business Architecture, Business Capability, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools, TOGAF /by Bernd IhnenIn my previous blog post (https://bizzdesign.com/blog/a-pattern-for-sizing-archimate-diagrams) I described why it is useful to reduce complexity when creating architecture diagrams. It supports the architect by guiding the creation of diagrams and it supports the reader by not creating overly complex diagrams (too many different types of concepts). Each viewpoint addresses a specific concern, e.g. a capability […]
Agile/DevOps Support in BiZZdesign Enterprise Studio & HoriZZon
/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-Fabian Aulkemeier & 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 […]
Continuous Architecture: Turning the Database Inside-Out to Improve Transformation Decision-Making
/0 Comments/in Adaptive Enterprise, BiZZdesign, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling, Decision Model Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools, Innovation, Lean Management, Roadmapping /by Nick Reed-Nick Reed and Bart Molenkamp In today’s business landscape, effective transformation is critical for enterprises to stay competitive. By definition, transformation happens over time. Enterprises (or some subsection thereof) have a current state which needs to change for the better. That change – however small or large – results in a different future state. With […]
NATO Architecture Framework & ArchiMate: Work To Be Done for NAF & ArchiMate in Defence
/0 Comments/in ArchiMate, BiZZdesign, Blog, Business Architecture, Business Capability, Business Model Management, Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Software, Enterprise Architecture Tools, Security Architecture, TOGAF /by Marc LankhorstKevin Wallis (MOD ISS) & Marc Lankhorst (BiZZdesign) In the previous instalments in this series, we discussed common drivers for architecture in defence and industry, commonalities between the architecture practice in defence and the civil sector, and why the ArchiMate language was chosen as a recommended standard for expressing architectures in the NATO Architecture Framework […]