Audience
Companies and professionals seeking a solution to visualize and analyze their organization
About Essential
Successful EA teams provide CXOs, business and IT stakeholders with the insights they need to make informed decisions and take action. Essential achieves this by focusing on enterprise architecture excellence while making it accessible to all. We have decades of practical, hands-on EA experience consulting to, and working within large-scale, global companies across industries. We understand what value looks like for enterprise architects and have designed a structured approach to accelerate value delivery. Provides a scenario-driven step-by-step guide to delivering the value most relevant to you. Lets you rapidly bulk load data. Allows non-architects to contribute to, and maintain your data. Provides actionable output for the stakeholders that matter. The Essential Meta Model, is a detailed, extensible, yet easy-to-use meta-model for describing an enterprise from top to bottom.
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Enterprise Architecture Solutions
Founded: 2000
United Kingdom
enterprise-architecture.org
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Enterprise Architecture
Application Portfolio Management
Architecture Governance
Capability Mapping
Idea Management
Modeling & Simulation
Risk Assessment
Transformation Roadmapping
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Project Management
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