ARIS IT Architect & Designer
Increase your enterprise insight.
Capabilities
Architecture Populating & Modeling | Analysis | Presentation | Governance | Administration
Architecture governance
Assure architecture quality, consistency & 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 highest-quality content is available to help people make right decisions at the right time.
You can assess quality of available architecture 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.
Verify, for example, if:
- All business applications have a business owner
- Vendor lifecycles are maintained on hardware technologies
- There are any functional capabilities not approved by an enterprise architect
Make these checks automatically or on-demand. Moreover, by using ARIS MashZone, portfolio managers or architects can easily monitor the completeness of available content—for example, by line of business, by market or by region.
Change history & versioning
Make smarter decisions and avoid redundant work by understanding how an architecture description evolved. Using ARIS IT Architect or Designer analysts and architects can:
- Create versions of architecture descriptions
- Compare previous versions
- Compare previous versions with work in progress
You can do this across the whole repository, taking into account structural and property changes. No external version control system required! You also can create audit trails and follow changes manually or analyze them automatically.
Request for change & sign-off workflows
When projects are completed, architecture descriptions should change to reflect changes in processes, people and technology.
Use ARIS Process Governance , which comes with request for change and sign-off workflows that you can reconfigure based on your governance processes. Architects, analysts and other users of the central architecture repository using ARIS IT Architect or Designer or ARIS Business Publisher can initiate these workflows to:
- Assign user tasks
- Send notifications
- Query architecture descriptions
- Automatically create versions
- Publish content
- Perform any other defined action
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.
