ARIS IT Architect & Designer
Increase your enterprise insight.
Capabilities
Architecture Populating & Modeling | Analysis | Presentation | Governance | Administration
Architecture analysis
Make the right decisions based on facts
Architecture descriptions document ongoing enterprise operations—and 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. You can:
- Browse views and objects stored in folders
- Simply navigate from one view into another
- Explore architecture descriptions from high-level business capabilities to granular IT infrastructure details or vice versa
Using integrated powerful search functions, architects and analysts can look up specific views or objects, or limit search by certain values of architecture properties.
Without programming, you also can define simple and nested queries. For example, you can search in a certain order across the relationships of objects to answer questions like:
- Which business demands are aligned with strategic objectives?
- Which business functions are impacted by a server outage?
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 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results using heat maps—for example, you can color business capabilities based on support costs or apps that use outdated technologies.
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.
Time-based analysis
Architecture descriptions can be leveraged to create master plans, like a master application plan or a business applications roll-out plan. How do IT solutions support business operations at any given time? Find out by using ARIS IT Architect or Designer.
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.
