Collaborative Enterprise Architecture & Governance Platform
Single source of truth about how technology powers your business
A tool to give your organisation the visibility it needs on the IT and Technology platforms that keep the lights on
Key Benefits – A Tool for Your Entire Organisation
A collaborative tool designed to give teams a single source of truth for business critical information
Technology Auditing
Before rushing out to spend another £5,000,000 on a brand new piece of enterprise software or digital transformation project, it’s essential to audit your existing IT / Technology / Software Estate to truly understand the existing Applications and their Modules and Capabilities to see if there is an easier route.
With the Application Utilisation Module, you can quickly and easily get a full understanding of your existing usage of your systems to help you make more informed and better decisions for your organisational strategy.
Full Visibility Across Organisation
Tired of not having the visibility you need throughout your organisation? Endless inaccurate outdated and incomplete spreadsheets floating around?
Then get started to bring all your business critical information together in one place that your teams can access, and more importantly, contribute to and trust.
Align IT Strategy to Business Goals
How can you align IT and Technology to the business when you don’t have the visibility of critical organisational information at scale? A best guess simply doesn’t cut it.
Understand business capabilities, organisational structure and how existing technology supports business goals to easily identify gaps to create solid strategies to implement.
Improve Operational Efficiency
How much time are teams within your organisation chasing other teams for basic information? Only to get supplied with mediocre information after waiting for weeks?
By having all of your business critical information within a single tool, this allows your teams to collaborate with ease by having instant access to the information they need to progress.
Streamline Processes
How much time is wasted in your organisation through inefficient business processes? Then when someone asks “Why are we doing it this way?” you get a poor response of “Because we’ve always done it that way…”
Document your business processes with ease so teams understand how things operate. Documented process enable better governance and to identify gaps in existing ways of working.
Eliminate Redundant Systems
How many duplicate IT and Technology systems are you paying for when you don’t need to be? How many times has Shadow IT gone out to market and procured another system that you weren’t aware of, only to find it’s a 5 year contract, goes against the IT Strategy and duplicates key functionality that already exists elsewhere in the organisation?
Easily identify where overlap and duplication exists to enable you to create a clear roadmap to decommission redundant systems and better align with enterprise architecture goals.
Manage Business Capabilities
Ask every member of staff what the organisation does and you’ll get a different answer. How many times have you heard people say “Oh, I didn’t even know we did that”.
The foundations to managing complexity is to understand what the building blocks are for your organisation. This helps with onboarding new members of staff and training existing ones. Once you know your basic business capabilities, this enables you to overlay the technology capabilities to identify actionable activities and plug gaps.
Improved Decision Making
How many times have you been pointed to “The Intranet” or other such document repositories only to find after hours of looking, you still can’t find the basic information you need?
Dramatically improve the decision making capabilities of your organisation by providing the critical information to people at their finger tips. No more continually trying to figure things out.
Understand Organisational Structures
Enterprise organisations are extremely complex, built up over many years any by many people, many of whom are no longer at the organisation. And documentation is rarely useful.
Document your organisational structures with ease to allow you to see how various activities are going to impact these different areas. Companies, Brands, Departments, Teams, People.
Adapt Rapidly with Confidence
Change is hard. It’s made even more challenging when people don’t have confidence in the change that is either being proposed or forced upon them. And that’s all down to information.
Help your organisation embrace change with confidence by providing people the right information they need so they can clearly see what is being done, when it’s being done and most importantly clear insights into why it is being done.
Manage Risks Effectively
How many times have you suddenly found out about yet another IT or Technology system that is suddenly becoming end of life, end of contract or has a security issue that needs to be fixed?
Effectively manage risks by understanding how the risk connects to various parts of your enterprise organisation. Give your teams the tools to understand risk and effectively manage the communications across complex business landscapes.
Identify Cost Savings
How many times have you been asked to reduce costs or find savings, yet you don’t have a clear understanding for what things you’re paying for already? Finance is not a finance problem. Managing costs effectively requires a deep understanding of what the organisation is currently paying for, much more granular than what finance departments tend to keep track of.
Enable better decision making be tracking what different parts of your IT and technology landscape is costing you, from software costs, licence fees, per user fees and more.
Align Investments
How many times have Shadow IT gone out to market and another system to solve a problem that didn’t exist? You can’t blame them if they aren’t aware of what the existing technology capabilities are within the organisation, they need to get the job done.
Make sure you are investing in the right tools, technologies, people and processes that are going to make the most impact to your organisation and teams within it.
Enhance Collaboration
How many times do your teams hear “Oh, you need to speak with Department X for that” or “Oh, that person is on holiday so you’ll have to wait till next week for that” or “I don’t know, maybe try asking person Y” – It’s frustrating for everyone involved.
Significantly enhance the collaboration throughout your organisation by bringing to life the architecture of your enterprise so everyone has a single source of truth for critical information.
Single Source of Truth
How many times have you been sent one spreadsheet containing partial information, then to get sent another spreadsheet with more partial information from another team, only to find that there is conflicting information on the two. You cannot trust unmanaged data in spreadsheets.
Effectively manage the data about your organisation, how it works, how it operates and the technologies that keep the business operating. Solid understanding of enterprise architecture is a foundational pillar of growth. Manage it with ease.
Manage Key Dates
In complex enterprise organisations, there are key dates for business critical systems for a multitude of things. From licence renewals to expiry dates on certificates. How many times have your teams had to react to another fire where a system has gone offline due to something basic being forgotten about?
Easily manage the key dates for your IT and Technology systems so you can proactively manage these and keep things running with ease. No more reactively firefighting as you’ll know exactly what’s coming up and if the activity has been complete or not.
Empower Teams
How many times have you heard teams say “I don’t know” or “Where can I find information about X?” or “Who knows about Y?” – It can be challenging when access to such basic organisational information is so time consuming to find.
Bring teams together around a single enterprise architecture tool for your organisation and empower teams to contribute to the repository to help everyone make informed decisions.
Reduce Complexity
“I don’t even know what half these systems do” – Enterprise organisations are complex and the IT and Technology systems that are powering them are even more so. Getting basic visibility on what things are is often the first step on this journey to manage and reduce complexity.
Gather all of the critical information about the systems, technologies and more to enable you to make key decisions on your path to reducing the complexity of your IT and Technology systems.
Enable Business Transformation
Large scale big bang strategic digital transformation projects rarely work in practice and cost a ludicrous amount of energy, time and money for your organisation.
Successfully deliver business transformation through the delivery of 1000x BB’s rather than 1x Silver Bullet. Gain insights into your IT and Technology landscape to make informed business decisions and identify low hanging fruit to target on your digital transformation journey.
Target Operating Models
How many times have you asked the basic question of how part of an organisation works and what people, process and technologies are supporting that business capability? These basic questions often result in weeks and often months worth of effort to get an answer to.
Gain insights into your As-Is and To-Be operating models so you can effectively plan business and technological change within your organisation with confidence. Rapidly Auto-Generate your Logical Data Models across your complex Enterprise Organisation to baseline where your Systems and Applications are today.
Portfolio Management
The bigger the organisation, the more complex portfolio management becomes, often resulting in teams and departments fighting between their selves to get scarce resource to deliver their super important project. With basic visibility on what is being worked on and why often not being available across the organisation.
Collaborate effectively across your organisation by aligning Strategic Initiatives, Critical Projects, Tactical Campaigns and Non-Negotiable Technology Activities into one clear plan that is visible to everyone. No more infighting and dealing with people shouting the loudest.
Manage Dependencies
How many times have you been told point blank that something cannot be changed because of something else that you didn’t realise was related? IT and Technology dependencies are complex.
Understand the system and technology dependencies across your organisation to help to plan for change better. Understand how application are connected, what data is flowing through integrations, what business processes those integrations support – all in one tool.
Data Modelling
Data is at the core of everything today. Yet understanding data models at varying levels of abstraction, from non-technical to technical, remains a complex challenge for everyone involved.
That’s why the ArchiTech360° Enterprise Architecture Platform empowers teams to rapidly create data models to communicate effectively with different audiences. Linking those data models to critical Software Applications or System Integrations results in super charging teams when designing, developing and delivering system features or data integrations.
Data Warehouse Design
Managing your strategic data that is feeding your data warehouse is critical to getting high quality, accurate and timely reporting to aid in decision making. Yet so many organisations struggle with this basic requirement, often due to the inner workings remaining invisible to those that can support the design through key business and domain knowledge.
That’s why the ArchiTech360° Enterprise Architecture Platform empowers teams to rapidly create logical data models to communicate effectively with different audiences. Linking those data models to critical Software Applications or System Integrations results in super charging teams when designing, developing and delivering system features or data integrations.
System Architecture Modelling
Understanding how complex Enterprise Systems work can be an extremely complex task, involving multiple departments/teams/people to get a full end to end understanding of how systems work across the different technology layers.
That’s why the ArchiTech360° Enterprise Architecture Platform empowers teams to rapidly create system architecture models to map out this complexity using your favourite icons to convey relevant information. By linking those components together you can create comprehensive diagrams of Software Applications, System Integrations and Microservice Architectures.
Markdown Support
Tired of not having accurate and reliable documentation for your complex Enterprise? Wasting lots of time hunting down spreadsheets and getting permissions to access historical documents that are of no use?
ArchiTech360° has full Markdown support to empower teams to create complex in-context documentation so you and your teams have access to the right information at the right time. Fully customisable.
With a complex range of features including;
- Markdown
- Ordered and Unordered Lists
- Emoji Support
- Code Snippets
- Manage Tasks as Completed/Incompleted
- Hpyerlinks
- Complex Data Tables
Take a look at the complex examples that can be easily supported with industry wide Markdown syntax with ease.
“Having full control over our organisations technology and being able to clearly see how this aligns with the wider business strategy has been critical in regaining control over our IT systems and Technology platforms. I couldn’t live without it.”
“Being able to easily visualise where the business data is mastered throughout the technology landscape has been a game changer for us. Being able to see the high level data concepts while allowing our data engineering teams to drill down to the granular level means that we’re all working from the same source of truth and each individual can look at the level of detail that they are interested in.”
“Our organisation has an almost 100 year history, and our IT and Technology landscape has grown extremely complex over that time. We were historically having significant problems getting basic visibility of our technology with Shadow IT regularly procuring new systems without IT oversight and regularly having systems falling over due to lack of understanding for how they worked due to high staff turnover and poor documentation. Since embedding the Enterprise Architecture tool within our organisation this has transformed our understanding of how everything is working so we can make informed decisions with ease. I couldn’t recommend it enough!”
“Enterprise organisations are extremely complex, particularly for global brands covering online, physical stores and point of sale systems along with distributed manufacturing and logistics facilities. Managing this complexity in a way that you can easily zoom in and zoom out on an organisation so that you can have informed discussions from the C-Level to the Software Engineering Teams using data and diagrams is challenging.
Many tools on the market either cater for low level details that Software Engineering Teams are interested in, or conceptual ivory tower architectural tools which are great for some activities but lack the link throughout the organisation. The organisation had spreadsheets coming out the woodwork and nothing could be trusted.
By embedding ArchiTech360° within our organisation, this has given everyone instant access to information that would have historically taken weeks and months to find and discuss. This has transformed the speed at which we can adapt as an organisation and deliver projects successfully because we can now understand how projects link to business processes, business strategy, teams and people. We couldn’t live without it!”
“Historically designing solutions to specific problems was extremely complex due to lack of basic visibility and access to the IT and Technology systems that are powering the organisation. It was taking months to get basic information and required endless meetings and discussions with vendors to get access to the information the teams required. Once we had this information, we had no single source of truth that the whole IT department and beyond could use to store this knowledge.
This is what ArchiTech360° solved for us. It gave the enter department trustworthy information they could easily access and discuss during meetings to make smart and informed decisions. It was no longer all talk and no knowledge. Teams matured because they had access to what they needed which resulted in projects getting delivered on time and to budget.”
“The underlying mechanics of software systems and system integrations is extremely complex. Getting things documented and diagrammed in a way that can be used to explain this to senior non-technical people along with software engineering teams of varying levels of ability is a challenging task. One which often requires several views of the same information presented in a different way to help the audience.
Previously we had lots of different diagrams which explained things well but were only really relevant at a specific point in time, for a specific discussion, for a specific audience. They weren’t governed and/or updated over time as things evolved. This resulted in a lot of legacy semi-trustworthy information.
What ArchiTech360° has solved for us it to give us that single source of truth for how software and system integrations work under the hood which helps teams manage these systems significantly easier, saving time and effort when maintaining, supporting and enhancing the systems over time. It’s an invaluable tool!”
“When I started with the enterprise organisation, data wasn’t a topic that was talked about. No-one was responsible for managing data, there was no data owners throughout the organisation and data was seen as an IT problem to deal with. It was chaos. The biggest problem is that no-one was talking about it and at best, senior leaders were talking about it in ways that were so in the clouds that it was meaningless to those on the ground.
ArchiTech360° helped us to get sensible data concepts onto paper, so to speak, so we could have valuable discussions with various stakeholders to discuss as-is and to-be architectures along with which systems were the masters of various different pieces of master data. This helped to identify manual duplicate data entry that was happening in pockets around the organisation which could be automated and significant amount of time and money saved during the process. “
“Managing complex software engineering teams, even when organised effectively into agile feature teams around, can be challenging. There are many different models for this which are very organisationally dependent on their success. Everyone has different levels of experience, and ways of working. What was clearly missing was a centralised repository of knowledge so that knowledge was easily accessible and understandable by not only the engineering teams but the organisation as a whole, without having hundreds of meetings.
ArchiTech360° helped us create that central repository that we could use across the business to aid in strategic discussions, while also feeding the complex needs of the software engineering teams and individuals. Even knowing which Git Repositories are powering our business critical applications often required several conversations and discussions to help a new member of staff get up to speed. This enterprise architecture tool has helped out teams become self-serving while still having a centralised source of truth for business critical information.”
“As a technical lead I am the go-to person for the gaps in knowledge in the software engineering squads I work across. This is a very time consuming activity that historically required a significant amount of manual intervention. Often very entry level information that is only absorbed over time through experience within the organisation.
ArchiTech360° significantly helped reduced my time and effort in these basic requests, it simply allowed me to point people to the tool where they could self-serve and get the information they needed. It was a significant time saver for me!”
“As a software engineer I am responsible for working across many different systems across the company. This comes as a challenge while trying to not only deeply understand the technology but also how this aligns with business goals, requirements and projects. This onboarding process to any technology within the business always comes with the significant business-debt in the sense that I don’t know that business area as well as the person in the business does.
ArhiTech360° helped me to easily access the core information that I needed to deeply understand not only the technical aspects but the business aspects too, in a way that I was never able to do before. “
“Getting thrown between one business critical project to another, expected to get a usually failing project back under control and back on track for delivery can be challenging at times. There are many brilliant collaborative project management tools available, and a few project management tools that should quite frankly be banned from use (you know what I’m talking about…).
Anyhow, the one key thing I find when entering any project is that I often know nothing about the project I’m getting thrown into. I don’t know the business, the people, the processes or the technology – yet the project team around me are a team of experts that I have a tiny fraction of insights into what they are aware of. This historically has left me at a significant advantage. I needed insight.
ArchiTech360° was my superpower. It instantly gave me a 360 view of everything I needed to know to enable me to have sensible discussions with my project teams. I used to work in the army, and a common term that was used was SitRep – aka a Situational Report – aka. What’s going on? And this is exactly what this enterprise architecture tool gave me. It provided me with the information that I needed at my fingertips to make informed decisions within the context that I was working with.”
“As a… Business Analyst, I Want… The ability to easily access core business information, So That… I can understand how the organisation works and supply critical information to teams within IT and Technology to enable them to deliver value to the organisation. (See what I did there…)
But seriously, I could not do my job without ArchiTech360° – It gives me instant access to the insights I need to collaborate while allowing me to actively contribute to the knowledgebase of the organisation to help my future self and that of my colleagues. It’s an invaluable tool!”