Effective AI Governance

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See how AI is really being deployed and used. Identify opportunities, monitor progress, track risks, record compliance, implement controls, and measure success.

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The Role of Enterprise Architects in the Age of AI

“Shadow AI is the enterprise’s latest and greatest threat.

CISO and Legal teams are already panicked about shadow AI because they can't see the full picture. EAs are the crucial bridge.

 You're the only one who can connect that "helpful" new AI tool to the company's most critical data stores and the specific business processes that use them. Your role is to make the threat tangible: "That 'free' tool is currently reading our entire customer database."

The Role of Enterprise Architects in the Age of AI

“Good Governance Accelerates AI Innovation and Adoption

By establishing proactive AI governance, EAs move beyond a tactical compliance role to become valued, trusted advisors who accelerate AI adoption and innovation safely.

It’s not about telling people “no” but providing a secure, cost-effective, and vetted AI tool set that teams can leverage without putting the organization at risk.
 

The Role of Enterprise Architects in the Age of AI

“AI Is More Than “Just Another Application”

Treating AI agents like applications to track in a spreadsheet is a fatal mistake. It’s already in your organization, influencing decisions and direction, interacting with customers and systems, potentially impacting health, safety, reputation, and ethics.

Your EA tool should be helping you dynamically track and model who (and what) is being involved in critical business capabilities and processes, or you’re failing to manage one of today’s biggest organizational risks.

The Role of Enterprise Architects in the Age of AI

“Meet People Where They Work

Don’t get caught up creating a perfect "AI Ethics Board" while other teams are already pasting client data into three different unvetted chatbots.

 Work backward from the reality on the ground. Conduct reconnaissance, understand what's really in use and where. You can't manage risks you don't know about.

Ensuring Transparent and Responsible AI Implementation

Establish a Central AI Inventory

Create a single, authoritative register of all AI and ML models and agents currently in use or development.
Align every AI system to a specific business use case and, critically, a human owner to establish clear accountability and eliminate governance gaps.

Assess Usage, Impact, and Risk of AI Systems

Assess AI systems against your organization’s AI principles, policies, and regulatory requirements.
Set a criteria and regularized checkpoints for assessing the AI health of the enterprise.

Map AI Systems to the Business Landscape

Connect AI systems to the specific business capabilities, departments, and applications that consume them.
Visualize dependencies to show leadership which business areas have the highest AI adoption and where the greatest operational risks lie.
Use this connected view to transform compliance from a static report into a living, data-driven process that enables, rather than blocks, innovation.

How Ardoq Empowers EAs and Organizations

Here’s how we help track AI adoption, ensure accountability, and connect AI to outcomes.

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Out-of-the-Box AI Governance Solution

Ardoq’s AI Lens Solution is the first EA-native solution that gives you full visibility into your AI landscape. This solution’s prebuilt assets will help you understand ownership, business value, adoption status, and progress against regulatory requirements such as the EU AI Act.

Governance with Ardoq means the flexibility to model any regulatory or compliance needs, not just AI or GDPR.

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Holistic View Anchored in EA

Unlike other IT or security tools that track systems in silos, Ardoq provides a live, interconnected view of the enterprise and AI systems.

This means greater transparency on interdependencies, vulnerabilities, and opportunities across teams and initiatives.

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Stakeholder-Ready Reports and Dashboards on AI Adoption

Get out-of-the-box data-driven dashboards and reports on enterprise AI value, ownership, governance, regulatory compliance, and health checks.

Allow stakeholders across the business to get a shared view of AI usage, value, and risks.

See Ardoq's AI Lens Solution

Success Stories

Confident Compliance,
Efficient Governance

See how EA teams are connecting people, communicating insights, and guiding their organizations forward.

Read About Real Success

alexander hallden quote - Ardoq enabled us to modernize our architecture while meeting compliance demands - without slowing down innovation.

walter-m-salicath quote 'Ardoq basically functions as a map, enaling us and auditors to quickly identify what artefacts are relevant in relation to controls'

tricia-dean quote 'We're very much driving our storytelling, by pulling data and information fromArdoq into our decks to then present it. Now we clearly see our health score and can continually improve upon it.'

Keefe-Andrews-spawglass quote 'Within 60 days, I had content I could share with our CEO. Ardoqs dashboards made the value of our technology tangible for the entire leadership team.'

Resources for AI Governance

On-demand webinars, solutions, downloadable guides, and more.

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AI Lens: An Introduction

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5 AI Governance Dashboards Every Enterprise Architect Should Use

Oct 25

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AI Agent Risk: What Enterprise Architects, CIOs, and CISOs Must Know

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

Governing the AI Surface Area: From Agents to Architecture

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ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

Shine a Light on AI Agents: Risks, Governance, and Enterprise Readiness

Sep 2025

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AI governance is the framework for managing the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence. It’s not a one-time policy document that sits on a shelf; it’s the active, ongoing process of knowing what AI systems you have, where they are running, what data they are using, who is responsible for them, and if they are fair, secure, and aligned with your business goals. It's how you turn AI from a high-risk "black box" into a transparent and trusted asset that delivers real business value.

Legal and compliance teams can write the rules, but they can't enforce them if they don't know where the AI lives. Enterprise Architects are the crucial bridge. EAs are uniquely positioned to connect abstract policies to the actual technology. You're the only ones who can map a rule (like "no customer data in public models") to the real-world applications, data flows, and business processes that might be violating it.

An algorithm can't be accountable. A human must be. The biggest risk in most organizations is "orphaned AI"—models that are running in production with no clear owner. An Enterprise Architect's job is to fix this by mapping every single AI model and agent to a specific human owner and the business capability it supports. When you connect the "black box" to a person, you create real accountability.

Ardoq Lens is a set of AI dashboards, reports, and other visualizations, that give visibility into AI-enabled applications — showing where AI is used, who owns it, and how it supports the business. It provides organizations with visibility into their AI usage, govern adoption, and ensure compliance with evolving regulations.

Most customers gain meaningful visibility within the first 4 weeks. You’ll quickly see which applications you have, who owns them, and how they support your business.

Shadow AI happens when AI tools are adopted without oversight. AI Lens creates a system of record for AI across the enterprise, making ownership, usage, and compliance visible — so nothing slips through the cracks.

Instead of starting from a blank page, Foundation gives you a pre-built, best-practice structure that reflects years of EA experience. These give you immediate value and familiarity with the Ardoq platform's key functionality right from the start.

Our team guides you through collecting essential data — applications, people, org structure, and business capabilities — so you can start strong and expand with confidence.

Yes, organizations can leverage Ardoq to address the regulatory obligations of the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act). Ardoq’s governance solution is also extremely flexible, allowing organizations to implement any regulations as required.

Watch this 5-minute demo on how to track EU AI Act Compliance with Ardoq.

Clear ownership, better alignment with business strategy, and fewer wasted investments. You’ll expose overlaps, eliminate duplication, and show how AI delivers measurable value.

Enterprise Architects, CIOs, IT leaders, and business transformation teams who need to track AI adoption, ensure accountability, and connect AI to outcomes.

If you’re already an Ardoq customer, contact your account manager or CSM. If not, Request a Demo to see AI Lens in action.  