US State Departments and Agencies

Statewide Clarity.
Agency Autonomy.

Find Cost Savings Across the State Without
Taking Control Away from Agencies
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Enterprise Architecture for US state departments

States Must Cut Costs and Reduce Complexity, But Today’s Application Landscape Is A Black Box.

  • No statewide application inventory
  • Redundant systems hidden across agencies
  • Inconsistent reporting
  • Cost-cutting mandates without shared visibility
  • Static diagrams no one trusts
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  • Manual spreadsheets
  • Unclear expectations
  • Fear of losing autonomy
  • Siloed tooling
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State-Webinar

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Gain Visibility

"We got really good feedback from our program leaders, they feel like they haven’t had that level of engagement from IT before. It’s good to see our Enterprise Architecture work bridging the gap."

A Federated Model That Matches
How US States Actually Operate

Agencies keep control of their own data and systems.
The State gets clean, comparable data and consolidated insights.



Ardoq gives each agency its own environment to manage application data while sharing a lightweight, standardized Application Rationalization (AppRat) report. The state receives a single, consistent view across all agencies, without integration, centralization, or forced standardization.

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AUTONOMY
and visibility

Agencies stay in control; states gain the clarity they need.

AUTONOMY
and visibility

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COMPARABLE
Data Across Agencies

A standardized reporting format makes statewide comparison effortless.

COMPARABLE
Data Across Agencies

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FRICTION-FREE
for everyone

No forced metamodels. No new governance structure. No major lift. Fast onboarding.

FRICTION-FREE
for everyone

No forced metamodel

No integration work.

No new governance structure.

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Simple for Agencies.
Powerful for the State.

Each agency uses Ardoq to manage its application inventory (or imports existing data). Agencies publish a standardized AppRat report. Ardoq automatically aggregates these reports into a unified statewide view.

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State Department Outcomes

  • Clear visibility across all agencies.
  • Identify redundant systems and unnecessary spend
  • Faster budget justification cycles
  • Evidence for legislative funding requests
  • Lower political friction during reporting season

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State Agency Outcomes

  • Replace spreadsheets with structured data
  • No disruption to existing processes
  • No need to adopt the State’s tools or metamodel
  • Fewer correction cycles with the State
  • Reduced audit / compliance surprises

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Why Ardoq?

  • Built for federated organizations with high autonomy requirements
  • Minimal standardization required
  • Safe to adopt politically, no centralization implied
  • Scales across 50+ agencies with ease

We Help You Find Cost Savings
Hiding in Plain Sight

Used by Leading USA Public-Sector Organizations

Washington State 
Department of Ecology

50%

reduction in tools anticipated

  • Immediate 10-15% reduction in tools, anticipate a 30% to 50% further reduction over the next six to eight months
  • Data storage architecture plan identified $80,000 per year in direct savings just from analyzing two servers.

California Public Employees’
Retirement System

$550B

in assets under management

  • Supports oversight of $550B in managed assets
  • Improved visibility into dependencies and risk
  • Identified redundant and obsolete systems

Oregon State Lottery

232

business capabilities mapped

  • $86K estimated cost savings identified
  • 232 business capabilities mapped to live applications
  • 60+ business and tech stakeholders engaged
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Ardoq for State Agencies is a federated Enterprise Architecture model that gives states a clear, consistent view of applications across all agencies while allowing each agency to work independently.

Ardoq provides a standardized AppRat reporting format that agencies use to share application information. The state receives a unified statewide application inventory that highlights duplication, cost drivers, and risks.

No. Agencies maintain autonomy. Agencies only agree on a small set of standardized AppRat fields used for statewide reporting.

Agencies share only the standardized application fields required for statewide reporting, such as application name, owner, cost, business fit, technical fit, and lifecycle status.

No. Ardoq supports federated EA, meaning agencies keep their systems, ownership, and processes.

Spreadsheets and other APM tools do not provide:

  • Statewide visibility
  • Comparable application data
  • Consistent reporting across agencies
  • Redundancy identification

Ardoq creates one clear, consistent statewide application landscape.

States gain visibility into redundant applications, cost drivers, lifecycle risk, and reporting gaps. This enables better budgeting and oversight. Agencies get easier reporting, clearer application ownership, reduced spreadsheet work, and the ability to participate in statewide initiatives without losing autonomy.

Yes. Ardoq is used by countless global public-sector organizations including the Washington State Department of Ecology, CalPERS, Oregon State Lottery, and multiple government agencies across the U.S. and Canada.

Yes. Ardoq meets enterprise-level security requirements and supports secure, role-based data sharing. Data shared for statewide reporting is limited to standardized fields controlled by agencies.

Yes. Ardoq has local data centers in both regions and can offer this upon request.