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create a company-wide model that creates an understanding among all team members about the stack – and how it can be improved;
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full access to EA data via a mobile application;
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Orchestrate the tech sector through precise asset mapping during mergers and acquisitions.
Bizzdesign Hopex
After the takeover of Mega International, the Hopex platform is part of Bizzdesign’s portfolio. It is intended to help model enterprise applications and create an understanding of the business workflows they support. A focus is on the areas of data governance and risk management. Hopex is built on Microsoft Azure and relies on a set of open standards such as GraphQL and REST Queries to collect information from component systems. Reporting is integrated with Microsoft Office tools as well as graphical solutions such as Tableau and Qlik.
Most important use cases:
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Drive data-driven insights to guide cloud and application delivery;
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create accurate usage models to understand architectural requirements;
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make a needs assessment using surveys and other tools to plan for the future.
Bizzdesign Horizzon
The tool is used to model business workflows and the underlying tech stack. To do this, Horizzon offers a graph-based model that collects data from all stakeholders and passes it on to an analytics engine. The result is diagrams that reflect the current system status. The important focus of this tool is change management and future planning: Last but not least, Horizzon was designed to minimize the risks of a redesign. The toolset supports the most important frameworks ArchiMate, TOGAF and BPMN. In addition to Mega, Bizzdesign also acquired Software AG’s EA division – Alfabet – in January 2025.
Most important use cases:
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Predicting future requirements through predictive modeling;
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Orchestrate workflows based on technical and business architecture;
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Anticipate risks, security and governance issues by modeling data security requirements.
Capstera
Capstera’s tool focuses on mapping the business architecture itself. Value and process maps help to define and track the roles of the different areas of the company. Links to the underlying software products and tools can be added during the ongoing process.
Most important use cases:
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Create reports that first deal with the business architecture itself;
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Analyze relationships between people, departments and roles;
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drive long-term strategic planning.
Clausmark Bee360
Team members using Clausmark’s flagship product Bee360 (formerly Bee4IT) want a simple “single source of truth” about the company’s workflows. The goal is to enable smarter decisions for different operational roles. The Bee360 FM (financial management) module offers the option of tracking and allocating costs. Users can link various such modules together to seamlessly integrate EAM, financial management, portfolio management and agile planning – with maximum transparency.
Most important use cases:
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Empower C-suite level to manage projects and allocate assets;
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Develop precise digital twins to create an understanding of data flows and plan future expansions;
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Build an integrated knowledge database to track all digital workflows.
EAS
The Essential package from EAS (Enterprise Architecture Solutions) began as an open source project and has now evolved into a commercially available cloud solution. The tool creates a metamodel that describes the interactions between systems and business processes. Also included are packages to track common business workflows such as data management or GDPR compliance.
Most important use cases:
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evaluate the technical maturity of your own architecture;
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Optimize security and governance through better asset tracking;
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Control and manage growing system complexity.
OrbusInfinity
Orbus Software completed the acquisition of its competitor Capsifi in early 2025. With OrbusInfinity, the provider provides an AI-based enterprise transformation platform that promises faster, better decisions, cost savings and risk minimization. Architecture teams should be able to use OrbusInfinity’s Hifle to interact with a variety of stakeholders to generate a “digital blueprint” of their company, which is intended to realize a unified view of the current and future business. Various third-party tools can also be integrated with the platform, including those from Microsoft, Flexera, ManageEngine or ServiceNow.
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Planview Enterprise One
Planview offers a range of products that help companies understand teamwork, processes and enterprise architecture. The enterprise tools are divided into three categories: strategic portfolio management, product portfolio management and project portfolio management. The interaction creates cross-hardware and software layers that open up role-based perspectives for managers and team members. The toolset integrates with common ticket tracking systems such as Jira to create workflow analyzes and reports. Meanwhile, following an acquisition, Planview has integrated new tools into its portfolio, previously known as Daptiv, Barometer and Projectplace.
Most important use cases:
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build a long-term, strategic vision for architectural development;
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Track development work at project level and integrate it into any strategy;
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Driving change with a focus on customer experience and product structure.
QualiWare Enterprise Architecture
QualiWare’s Enterprise Architecture Tool is part of a larger collection of modeling tools aimed at capturing all business processes. For example, it is possible to build a digital twin that can be used to understand customer journeys. Qualiware has integrated various AI algorithms to optimize documentation and process discovery.
Most important use cases:
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build a collaborative ecosystem for business managers that provides an understanding of enterprise architecture;
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capture architectural design elements to build a knowledge ecosystem around the stack;
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encourage broad participation in documentation creation and review.
Quest Erwin Evolve
Quest’s Erwin Evolve tool has evolved from a data modeling tool to an enterprise architecture and business process modeling system. To navigate the complexity of modern, interconnected software systems and the business processes they manage, users can rely on custom data structures. The web tool creates models, role-based charts, and other visualizations that feed into widely accessible dashboards. The package includes an AI-based modeling tool that can integrate whiteboard sketches.
Most important use cases:
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create a digital twin for strategic modeling of the Enterprise Data Architecture;
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understand customer journeys;
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Track services and systems with Application Portfolio Management.
SAP LeanIX Enterprise Architecture Suite
The LeanIX tool collection includes, among other things, enterprise architecture management and other areas that are important for tasks such as SaaS and value stream management – for example to track cloud deployments and services running on them. The data collected via the IT infrastructure flows into a graphic dashboard. The tool is tightly integrated with major cloud workflow tools such as Confluence, Jira, Signavio and Lucidchart. This is beneficial for teams that already use these tools to plan and implement their development strategies. LeanIX has been part of SAP since November 2023.
Most important use cases:
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Manage application modernization and cloud migration;
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Evaluate obsolescence of software services;
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Control and manage costs.
ServiceNow
ServiceNow’s collection of tools can be broken down into different architecture types, including Assets, DevOps, Security and Service. The tools catalog the different hardware and software platforms in order to map and understand workflows and data flows in the company. Detailed reporting and detailed dashboards enable analyzes on the basis of which risks can be minimized and system reliability increased.
Most important use cases:
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Tracking assets, services and systems that make up the company;
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Governance issues, risk mitigation, IT management and security operations are brought together in one platform;
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By integrating CRM tools, customer-oriented services can also be managed.
Sparx Systems
To support teams and projects of varying sizes and complexity, Sparx has developed four versions of its EA tool. What they all have in common is UML-based modeling, which can be used to track the components of complex systems. A simulation engine enables “war gaming” and provides an understanding of how errors can propagate and cascade. Sparx also provides a variety of pre-built design patterns to support teams with modeling.
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Unicom System Architect
System Architect is one of the offerings from Unicom’s Team Blue. It is a tool that uses a metamodel to automatically collect as much data as possible about the running systems – sometimes by reverse engineering data flows. This system-wide data model can be made accessible to team members of all roles via custom dashboards. Another feature worth mentioning: resource allocation can be optimized using simulations.
Most important use cases:
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Ask what-if questions about the architectural model;
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build a metamodel of data and systems;
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Create migration and transformation plans.
ValueBlue BlueDolphin
This EA tool collects data in three ways:
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It imports basic data based on standards-driven automation (ITSM, SAM).
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It works with the file formats used by architects and system designers – such as ArchiMate or BPMN.
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It issues questionnaires to other stakeholders based on customizable templates.
The prepared information is provided in a visual environment that provides information about the historical development of systems.
Most important use cases:
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Collect system-wide data from internal and external stakeholders in an automated and form-based manner;
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Generate future-oriented reporting to monitor and drive change;
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Promote cooperation and collaboration through open data reporting.
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This article originally appeared at our sister publication CIO.com.
