Strategic Expert Consulting

Enterprise Architecture Management

Shaping your digital future efficiently and sustainably -
With our expertise in enterprise architecture management

Strategic Expert Consulting

Enterprise Architecture Management

Shaping your digital future efficiently and sustainably -
With our expertise in enterprise architecture management

Enterprise Architecture Management

Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) is a management discipline that focuses on the enterprise architecture of a company, a public authority, an organisation in general or a selected part of the organisation.
The purpose of EAM is the optimal and cost-efficient alignment of resources with the goals of the organisation and the derivation of measures for corresponding management decisions.
After identifying the specific analysis needs of the decision-makers, we first create transparency about the numerous and diverse elements (e.g. strategic goals, capabilities, processes, roles, systems, services, interfaces, technologies, requirements) and their interrelationships in the form of an architecture model. Depending on the need for analysis, we use various approaches and methods to analyse the architecture model and derive recommendations for action for the further development of the company.

Why IABG?

IABG's independence guarantees you neutral results

Our EAM services are not driven by the intention to place a specific product. Rather, we can focus exclusively on your needs and the optimal solution for them. Since EAM serves the optimal and effective further development of your organisation, we are your reliable partner - over the entire life cycle if you wish.

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Our EAM services specialise in complex socio-technical systems

Effective EAM is not possible without in-depth technical knowledge. Thanks to our history in the defence and security sector, we have always been accustomed to thinking holistically rather than limiting EAM to the IT component alone. This is why we specialize in complex socio-technical systems in the field of secure high technology for aerospace, information technology and the military.

Over the entire life cycle of a system, we consider EAM at selected points and preferably end-to-end. To this end, we draw on the full and broad expertise of IABG as a long-standing and recognised service provider for secure high technology.

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Fields of application of EAM

The starting point and end point of EAM is your analysis requirement. This can be divided into the following fields of application:

• Goal setting and conception

• Capability and business capability management

• Portfolio management

• process management

• Digitisation

• Leadership capability

• Interoperability

• Data management, quality and governance

• IT service management

• Information security

• resilience

• Requirements engineering, requirements documents

• Systems engineering/model-based system engineering

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EAM's particular strengths

EAM offers a whole range of application-independent and application-specific strengths. They result from a holistic system approach. The strengths of EAM include

• Transparency across complex system contexts

• Meeting the needs of different stakeholders from a holistic, consistent architecture model

• Promoting the alignment of strategy - business/operation - resources

• Diverse analysis options in the system context

• Comparability and harmonisation

• Changeability and integrability

• Systemic evaluation, control and decision-making capability

• Mitigation of risks

• Standardized documentation

• Basis for certifications

• Combinability with other methods

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Our services: Effective EAM

We offer you a wide range of services relating to the introduction, development and long-term maintenance of an effective EAM.
This includes

• Introduction and development of EAM

• Content before method-related needs analysis

• Most appropriate way of collecting information

• (Partially) automated, efficient modelling

• Needs-oriented analyses (impact, GAP, etc.)

• Modern and appealing visualisations

• Quality assurance

• Evaluation, comparison of architectures, including those of competitors

• Further development and training

• Creation of reference models

• Synergetic application with other methods (IABG method portfolio)

With our expertise in enterprise architecture management, we support you in shaping your digital future efficiently and sustainably and in successfully asserting yourself in a constantly changing market environment.

Our tools: EAM framework, metamodel, notation and tool

If architecture models are created in different parts of a company or industry, a comprehensive analysis and evaluation is only possible if the models offer a certain degree of comparability. An EAM framework provides a framework for describing systems or SoS. The framework consists of a division of the content description of systems into predefined subject areas, which are set in matrix form in relation to the different questions (e.g. typical W questions) or the purposes pursued by the stakeholders.

The basic principles are defined in ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 Systems and Software Engineering - Architecture Description. This framework is modular and flexible. We expand or reduce this framework according to your analysis requirements. It is the reason for the particular strengths of comparability and integrability.

The starting point for all EAM frameworks is the Zachman framework from 1987. Over the years, numerous frameworks, some of them domain-specific, have been added. In line with the needs of our customers, we have built up extensive knowledge and many years of experience with EAM frameworks.

These include:
NAFv4 | NAFv3.1 | NAFv3 | TOGAF | DODAF | MODAF | ARIS | UAF | ArchiMate
We currently mainly use version 4 of the NATO Architecture Framework (NAF).

Which metamodels and modeling languages (notation) do we use?

A metamodel is a model that defines the structure, rules and semantics of other models. It specifies which elements and relationships are permitted in these models. A notation, on the other hand, is the concrete way in which models are represented visually or textually. While the metamodel describes the underlying structure and logic, the notation provides the visual representation and comprehensibility. For example, the UML metamodel describes the model structure, while the UML notation determines the graphical representation of this structure.

• Metamodel of the Unified Architecture Framework (UAF) of the OMG

• ArchiMate from The Open Group

• UML

• SysML

BPMN 2.0 (Business Process Model and Notation Version 2.0) is the current standard for business process modeling, but only covers part of the framework of an architecture framework.

What tools do we use?