[Enterprise Architecture Tools] Top 18 Enterprise Architecture Tools in 2023

These popular and emerging EA tools provide businesses with everything they need to support enterprise architecture and digital transformation.

An enterprise architecture system is not always essential. In the 1940s, one of the leaders of the International Business Machines Corporation, Thomas Watson Jr., supposedly said, "I think there's a world market for about 5 computers." No one needed custom software to Keep track of such a short list.

Modern businesses, however, are very different. Some employees have more than five computers on their desks alone. Even small organizations can have thousands of machines; some can easily have over a million. And that's before considering the sensors and smart devices that make up the Internet of Things. An enterprise architecture (EA) system keeps track of all these machines and the software running on them—not to mention how these software layers interact. Therefore, EA tools are the only source of truth for managing these emerging virtual worlds.

EA Tools Market Status

The EA market is strong, with dozens of serious competitors. Some specialize in specific platforms or clouds. Others offer deeper integration with business intelligence and business process management software. Some started out as general-purpose modeling software; others were built specifically for enterprise architecture. All of these compile a long list of machines and provide various tabular and graphical dashboards to track them.

The EA system collects device and software information in a number of ways. The most manual process involves asking stakeholders and developers to fill out forms detailing who owns what machines. The most automated tools log directly into the company's cloud, computing the machine itself. Most use a mix of these methods. Some offer drag-and-drop widgets so that developers, architects, and managers can create models of all the machines, the software they run, and how data flows from one machine to another.

Everyone from the CIO to the rapid response team can use the diagrams in the EA dashboard to find processes and trace data flow. Some people want to watch out for bad machines or overloaded pipes. They can fix problems by following a chain of failures. Others want to plan for the future by finding bottlenecks or shortcuts. All rely on data in the system as a springboard for quick decision-making.

Many tools use ArchiMate, an open modeling standard designed to capture much of the complexity of enterprise architecture. It is designed to work closely with the TOGAF Open Framework. Views and visualizations are created in a manner similar to UML (Unified Modeling Language), another common approach to visual design.

An important consideration is the level of integration with the type of software in the native stack. All EA tools support a large number of modules that can collect data from a specific cloud or operating system, but some tools support various clouds and operating systems better than others. Some specialize in specific corners of the computing world.

Choosing the best solution for your office means looking at the amount of integration with your particular stack, and then weighing the usefulness of the diagrams and tables the software generates. The following provides an alphabetical overview of the top enterprise architecture platforms available today.

Top 18 Enterprise Architecture Tools

• Ardoq

• Atoll Group SAMU

• Avolution Abacus

• BOC Group ADOIT

• BiZZdesign HoriZZon

• Capsifi

• Clausmark Bee360

• EAS

• LeanIX Enterprise Architecture Suite

• Mega Hopex

• Orbus Software iServer

• Planview Enterprise One

• QualiWare Enterprise Architecture

• Quest Erwin Evolve

• Software AG alphabet

• Sparx

• Unicom System Architect

• ValueBlue Blue Dolphin

Ardoq

Ardoq is designed to collect information from various users, developers and stakeholders across the enterprise through a series of simplified forms. The goal is to involve people who understand the various system roles. This data creates a more "democratic" opportunity for everyone to use visualization of networks and data flows to support and modernize the systems that support their role. The tool offers integrations with major clouds and an API that can be customized through all major languages ​​(Python, C#, Java, etc.).

Atoll Group SAMU

Atoll Group created SAMU to track enterprise architecture with deep connections to cloud layers and business process management tools. It provides integration with monitoring tools (Tivoli, ServiceNow, etc.), cloud virtualization managers (VMware, AWS, etc.), configuration management databases (CA, BMC), and service organization tools (BMC, HP). These integrations provide a centralized data model that augments stakeholder input.

Avolution Abacus

Avolution's primary tool, Abacus, provides a set of data collection integration routines for building chart-driven dashboards. Core integrations with office tools such as SharePoint, Excel, Visio, Google Sheets, Technopedia, and ServiceNow simplify the use of workflows that use them. The tool recently began adding machine learning layers, and users can now try to train a model that can help answer questions such as which worker is responsible for a particular system.

BOC Group ADOIT

BOC Group's ADOIT is a widely open tool that maps each system or software package to an object. Data flow between systems is transformed into relationships captured by objects using a customizable metamodel. Business processes are similarly modeled by the well-integrated companion product ADONIS. The web-based tool also integrates with tools like Atlassian's Confluence to speed data capture and evolution.

BiZZdesign HoriZZon

BiZZdesign's main tool, called HoriZZon, provides a graph-based model for collecting data from all stakeholders, so its analytical engine can generate diagrams illustrating the current state of the system. Managing change and planning for the future is the focus of BiZZdesign, HoriZZon is designed to help manage the risk of redesign. The toolset supports major standards such as ArchiMate, TOGAF and BPMN.

Capsifi

Capsifi's Jalapeno creates business models in its cloud-based platform. The goal is not just to capture workflow in a model, but to enable leadership to understand enough to drive transformation through innovation. The software allows users to bring together modeling concepts such as "customer journeys" or "value streams" and integrate them with data collected from tools such as Jira. This data can generate metrics that are reported through a set of charts and gauges designed to measure progress or "burndown."

Clausmark Bee360

Clausmark's flagship product, Bee360 (formerly known as Bee4IT), aims to provide a simple source of truth about enterprise workflows so that many roles can make more informed decisions. The system also provides the ability to track and allocate costs using Bee360 FM (Financial Management).

EAS

The Essential package from Enterprise Architecture Solutions started as an open source project and evolved into a commercially available cloud solution. It creates a metamodel that describes the interaction between systems and business processes. The commercial version includes packages for tracking some common business workflows, such as data management or GDPR compliance.

LeanIX Enterprise Architecture Suite

The LeanIX toolset includes the Enterprise Architecture Suite as well as several other tools such as Cloud Intelligence and Service Intelligence for tracking cloud deployments and the services running on them. Together, they collect data about your IT infrastructure and present it in their Fact Sheet models, a direct delivery mechanism for essential information. The tool is tightly integrated with several major cloud workflow tools, including Confluence, Jira, Signavio, and Lucidchart, which is an advantage for teams already using these tools to plan and execute development strategies.

Mega Hopex

Mega built the Hopex platform to support modeling enterprise applications while understanding the business workflows they support. Data governance and risk management are important parts of the equation. The tool is built on Azure and relies on a set of open standards, including GraphQL and REST queries, to gather information from component systems. Reporting integrates with Microsoft's Office tools and graphics solutions such as Tableau and Qllk.

Orbus Software iServer

Orbus has built its iServer tools on the Microsoft stack, and its products are familiar and usable to any team that is tightly coupled with Microsoft tools. The report appears in Microsoft Word. Data is formatted as Excel. Everything works fine on Azure. These tools are not limited to the Microsoft environment because its collection of modules supports major, open integration standards for data collection.

Planview Enterprise One

Planview offers a range of products for tracking teamwork, processes, and enterprise architecture. Its Enterprise One creates a combination of machine and software layers, providing managers and team members with a role-based view. The tool integrates with common ticket tracking systems such as Jira to create workflow analysis and reports. Planview also offers similar tools such as Daptiv, Barometer, and Projectplace for tracking business workflow and process development.

QualiWare Enterprise Architecture

QualiWare's Enterprise Architecture tools are part of a family of modeling tools designed to capture all business processes. It opens up a whole new dimension to building digital twins that can record the progress of the customer journey. The company is incorporating various AI algorithms to enhance document and process discovery.

Quest Erwin Evolve

Quest's Erwin Evolve tool started as a data modeling system and evolved to provide enterprise architecture and business process modeling. Teams can use custom data structures to capture the complexity of modern, interlocking software systems and the business workflows they manage. Web-based tools create models, generate role-based diagrams and other visualizations, and form dashboards for all team members. These can also be converted into periodic reports for distribution.

Software AG alphabet

Alfabet is one of a number of products for managing APIs, cloud computing, and applications that support IoT devices. The system gathers information from various interfaces and generates hundreds if not thousands of potential reports filled with lifecycle maps, charts, rankings and geographic coordinates. Traditionally, Software AG has provided tools such as ADABAS that are tightly integrated with IBM products, while Alfabet has provided tight integration with all major platforms, including collaboration spaces such as Microsoft Teams. Its latest version will include a voice option, Alfabot, which offers a "conversational user interface (CUI)".

Sparx

Sparx has created four levels of tools so that teams of all sizes can tackle projects of all sizes and complexities. All of these provide UML-based modeling to trace parts of increasingly complex systems. The simulation engine enables wargaming and understanding how failures propagate and cascade, which is an important part of disaster planning. Sparx recognizes that models can be built for a variety of reasons, including pure analysis, software development, or strategic planning, and they provide hundreds of potential pre-built design patterns to guide modeling.

Unicom System Architect

One of Unicom's TeamBlue's latest products is System Architect, a tool that uses meta-models to automatically collect as much data as possible about a running system, sometimes by reverse engineering the data flow. This system-wide data model can be presented to team members in all roles in user-customizable dashboards. Foresighted managers can also start simulations to help optimize resource allocation.

ValueBlue Blue Dolphin

ValueBlue's BlueDolphin collects data in three ways. First, it relies on standards-driven automation (ITSM, SAM) to import underlying data. Second, it works with architects and system designers in file formats such as ArchiMate or BPMN. Finally, it surveys other stakeholders using a questionnaire driven by a customizable template. All of this is provided in a visual environment that tracks the historical evolution of the system.

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