26 July 2024

Written By Damian Hickey

This is a sneak preview of our comprehensive business architectecture solution that will solve these two key problems.

Enterprise architecture (EA) applications face two significant challenges that hinder their effectiveness and utility. Firstly, they often fail to comprehensively cover all business architecture domains. Most EA tools emphasize certain areas like capabilities, organization structure, and information management. While these domains are critical, this narrow focus means that other essential business architecture domains—such as strategy, value streams, stakeholders, and policies—are often neglected. This lack of comprehensive coverage prevents the development of a holistic perspective, which is crucial for aligning IT and business strategies and ensuring that all facets of the organization are integrated and optimized for overall performance.

Secondly, EA applications typically lack the ability to automatically ingest and extract data from a diverse array of business documents, such as strategies, business plans, project plans, sales plans, and process diagrams. This limitation means that business architects must manually enter and update data, which is both time-consuming and prone to errors. As businesses increasingly require agility and the ability to rapidly adapt to changing conditions, this manual process cannot keep pace with the speed at which business needs evolve. Consequently, the business architect's ability to provide timely and relevant insights is severely compromised, hindering the organization's responsiveness and strategic alignment. Addressing these core problems is essential for EA tools to truly support the dynamic and comprehensive needs of modern businesses.