CREATE THE OPTIMAL ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

Behind every successful organization is an enterprise architecture aligned precisely with business aims. Design and implement your optimal IT architecture using ARIS IT Architect. ARIS IT Architect is a market-leading software for enterprise architecture management. Using either ARIS IT Architect or ARIS IT Designer, you can harmonize and standardize your business activities with your IT systems. Simple and intuitive to use, ARIS IT Architect helps you quickly document and analyze your existing IT environment. Then, you can efficiently design your ideal IT setup and make the right migration plans. Count on ARIS IT Architect to help you:

ARIS IT Architect & Designer

Learn more by exploring these key features.

Align business needs with IT change Integrate IT architecture and process

management in a single repository

Architecture Populating and ModelingContent is king, so fill up your repository

Quickly capture architecture descriptions and store them in a central repository using ARIS IT Architect or Designer and also tools such as ARIS Express and ARIS IT Inventory. Business and IT architects & analysts can do this with little effort and training thanks to integration technology, state of the art user interface and reference content. Automatically populating structured content Most attempts to manage an architecture using typical office tools like Excel, Visio, Word and PowerPoint simply fail. Use ARIS IT Architect & Designer, instead, for a fail-safe approach. We help assure your success, in part, by automatically populating your central architecture repository in a number of ways. You can:

Create a uniform inventory of systems and

technologies

Generate views of current and target

situations

Define and document IT standards and

reference architectures

Gain transparency and reduce the cost and

complexity of your IT environment

Mitigate operational IT risks and ensure

compliance with regulations ARIS IT Architect features an easy-to-understand description method for establishing IT architectures within the ARIS methodology. Covering every level of architecture, from business over information and application to technology, ARIS IT Architect helps align business goals with IT strategy and IT operations.

Import information from Excel tables, Visio

diagrams and other office tools

Fact Sheet

Migrate content using powerful ARIS scripts Bring in content from external sources, such
as project portfolio management tools,

service registries or configuration management systems. Count on ready-to-use connectivity to BMC Atrium configuration management system and Software AGs service registry CentraSite Manual populating & modeling Using ARIS IT Architect or Designer user interface, you can easily capture and store architecture descriptions in the ARIS repository. You can create a catalog of objects with a simple copy & paste from Excel or by typing in object names. You also can use a matrix to create or re-use objects as well as interconnect them. Leverage best-of-breed ARIS modeling capabilities to create an architecture description from scratch. You can do this by graphically modeling objects and their relationships in one of many predefined or tailored diagram typesfor example, an application interaction diagram or solution roll-out project plan. Use Web-based forms in ARIS IT Inventory to capture and maintain a portfolio of applications, technologies, projects, services, demands and requirements to create the necessary informational foundation in your repository.

Linking external content Architecturally relevant content is often stored in unstructured formats, such as images, PDF, Word or PowerPoint. Using ARIS IT Architect or Designer, architects and analysts can easily embed these documents into their architectural deliverables using OLE mechanism. You can quickly link content stored in external document management systems with architecture descriptions, thanks to adapters to systems like Microsoft SharePoint, OpenText, LiveLink, EMC Documentum and Alfresco available with ARIS Platform. Frameworks & standards Nowadays, you can use a broad number of frameworks to structure and capture architecture content. Using ARIS IT Architect or Designer, architects and analysts can adopt standard frameworks like Architecture Content Framework (ACF) from The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) or ArchiMate. You also can leverage high-level structuring frameworks, such as Zachman or FEAF as well as detailed industry-specific frameworks, such as NAF, MODAF, DODAF or FrameworX of TeleManagement Forum.

Architecture analysisMake the right decisions based on facts

Architecture descriptions document ongoing enterprise operationsand they also help you make important decisions on business and IT transformations. Planners, architects and analysts using ARIS IT Architect or IT Designer along with other tools, such as ARIS Business Publisher, can easily analyze architecture descriptions to identify ways to optimize business and IT operations, alignment and productivity as well as understand the complexity of an entire enterprise. Navigation, search & impact analysis Many different stakeholders can store information in your central architecture repository. ARIS IT Architect and Designer provide a simple tree-based navigation across the repository. Using integrated powerful search functions, architects and analysts can look up specific views or objects, or limit search by certain values of architecture properties. Gap & redundancy analysis Architects define reference architecture descriptions or patterns to reduce complexity and increase standardization across business and IT solutions. Use ARIS IT Architect to assess proposed solution architectures against reference architectures to highlight compliance and waivers. Assess the results of solution implementation and compare them with the initial plans on the project closure. You also can assess existing redundancies across operational or proposed solutions. Powerful analysis enables a comparison of different architecture states to identify gaps and initiate corresponding transformation program. Quantitative & qualitative analysis Architecture descriptions consist of objects and their relationships as well as properties of these elements. Properties can contain valuable information, such as: software costs in a

Analyze, plan and simulate business support by IT

solution; the availability of an outsourced platform as a service; or probable loss magnitude when a technology goes down. Use ARIS IT Architect to analyze these properties and create user-defined evaluations for assessment across architectural layers. Highlight results using heat mapsfor example, you can color business capabilities based on support costs or apps that use outdated technologies. Time-based analysis Architecture descriptions can be leveraged to create master plans, like a master application plan or a business applications roll-out plan.

Publishing Communicate architecture descriptions across your intranet by using ARIS IT Architect with ARIS Business Publisher. You can publish catalogs, matrices and diagrams that can cover all ARIS repository content according to your corporate identity standards. Reporting Organization-specific management and governance processes predefine the format and content for specific deliverables used to make decisions and document proposals or actual architectures. That is why ARIS IT Architect and Designer

can interactively view content in the repository or monitor its state in a senior managementfriendly manner. Using ARIS MashZone, you can mix information in the repository with content from other sourcesfor example, from a CRM system to provide a better insight into impact on enterprise end customers. Using Google maps, you can visualize the availability of technology assets for business operations managers.

Architecture governanceAssure architecture quality, consistency and compliance

Governance of content in the central architecture repository is crucial for stakeholder buy-in. Using ARIS IT Architect along with ARIS Process Governance architecture ensures the highestquality content is available to help people make right decisions at the right time. You can assess quality of available architecture

Business and IT architects can maintain time-related information to simulate, for example, the roll-out of IT solutions over time to support business operations or products in certain markets or in certain lines of business. You also can simulate the availability of technologies and their impact on apps over time to identify potential application burn down.

come with predefined reports that give you a condensed view of business and IT alignment, IT redundancy, IT portfolio health and more. You can change existing or create new reports on architecture descriptions using structured formats, such as XML or Excel, or unstructured documents, such as PDF, HTML, DOC and RTF. Dashboarding & interactive reporting Architecture descriptions are based on portfolios of enterprise assets consisting of processes, people and technology and their relationships. Because your company is constantly changingand so are these architecture descriptions. So stay on top of these changes by using ARIS IT Architect with ARIS MashZone. Stakeholders

descriptions and initiate an improvement process. Completed architectures can undergo a predefined or user-defined release workflow. Use ARIS MashZone to monitor and communicate the usage of architecture descriptions. Quality assessment Architecture descriptions should be consistent, complete and unambiguous. Using ARIS IT Architect, analysts and architects can create checks verifying the structure and properties of architecture content. Make these checks automatically or on-demand. Moreover, by using ARIS MashZone, portfolio managers or architects can easily monitor the completeness of available contentfor example, by line of business, by market or by region. Request for change & sign-off workflows When projects are completed, architecture descriptions should change to reflect changes in processes, people and technology.

Architecture presentationSee it your way with individual architecture views

Assure success of your architecture management system by enabling every stakeholder to easily access architectural deliverables created to support decision making.

IT Architect provides you with a easy-to-use set of out-of-the-box reports

Use ARIS Process Governance, which comes with request for change and sign-off workflows that you can reconfigure based on your governance processes. Change history & versioning

Hundreds of predefined viewpoints and

objects with thousands of relationships between them

KEY BENEFITS
Integrate IT architecture and process management in a single repository Create a uniform inventory of systems and technologies Quickly document your current situation Efficiently design the future state IT while supporting migration planning Define and document IT standards and reference architectures Reduce the complexity of your IT environment Understand the impact of changes to your IT systems on the entire organization and on business processes Plan and manage your IT projects efficiently Reduce maintenance and operational costs

Thousands of predefined properties of

viewpoints, objects and relationships Tailor this rich metamodel to your organization

Make smarter decisions and avoid redundant work by understanding how an architecture description evolved. Using ARIS IT Architect or Designer analysts and architects can:

or any user. Without any technical skills, you can simplify the metamodel so that people who use Microsoft PowerPoint or Visio need no learning curve to start contributing to the central architecture repository right away. Access management Protect access to sensitive stored content by using built-in user groups, users and rights management. Using ARIS IT Architect, an ARIS administrator can define access rights up to the property level. You also can integrate ARIS with enterprise directories, thanks to LDAP support. This further streamlines user management of your central source of architectural information.

Create versions of architecture descriptions Compare previous versions Compare previous versions with work in
progress Architecture content usage Using ARIS IT Architect and ARIS MashZone, administrators and architects can easily report on or monitor the use of your enterprise architecture management system. This helps you confirm your return on investment in your enterprise architecture management system.

AdministrationStay in control of your architecture management system

ARIS Platform provides a proven and integrated architecture and design repository so you can store descriptions in one central place. Use ARIS IT Architect to manage this repository and support stakeholders in their daily use of architecture content. Storage administration With ARIS IT Architect, administrators can define the repositorys structure, where users centrally store their content and which is managed by ARIS Business Server. You even can create multiple logical databases, making the ARIS repository a repository of repositories. Metamodel administration ARIS Platform comes with a predefined metamodel based on our 20+ years of experience in architecture management. The metamodel includes:

Multi-language support Operate in different regions around the world? Thats no problem with ARIS. Choose from 150+ languages. Staff can share architecture descriptions while capturing and viewing them in the local language. This helps avoid duplication of content. Scripts management Easily extend your architecture management system, thanks to a fully integrated design, test and run-time JavaScript environment.
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