Enterprise Architecture Governance to Align Disconnected Teams and Data

The Need for Enterprise Architecture Governance

• Information disconnect across various locations and relied on Excel to connect information and mature their EA practice
• Multiple siloed departments lacked a common language and depended on a cultural change to bring diverse departments together
• Partial Enterprise Architecture governance left decision-makers searching for data and lacked a “one-stop shop” for their answers

Building Company-wide Assessable Repository

• Followed Ardoq’s Best Practice Guides for Application Portfolio Management (APM), Business Capability Modeling (BCM), technical capabilities, and project, people, and data management
• Integrated Ardoq with Azure Active Directory to identify and map application experts and owners to ensure a single point of contact
• Ardoq Services customized the program based on the organizations’ 80+ requirements and delivered Ardoq Discover viewpoints, Surveys and Broadcasts, Reports and Dashboards, and Permissions
• Set up a program to fulfill wider internal department rollout
• Captured the needed interface details with the extended metamodel, improving the understanding of integrations, maintenance, and impact on applications

Achieving Enterprise Architecture Governance

• Faster and quicker value realization for departments using Ardoq:  
• • Seven departments use custom-made dashboards and reports to keep their data up-to-date
  • Can plan a structured approach towards any new impact because they have a more complete Enterprise Architecture governance
  • Visibility of application portfolio across locations, departments, owners, data, and interfaces
• Better control of the spend on IT architecture
• Aligning business capabilities to applications to confidently answer stakeholders' questions
  • Understand who owns which applications and how those applications impact business capabilities 
  • Identify the capability gaps to know what’s missing to find a solution and continue to mature in their capability journey
• Due to ease of use and data visibility, the company has been able to prioritize projects based on data
  • Help make investment decisions by knowing which projects most effect transformation
• Met hard deadlines to roll out Ardoq to the wider organization by using Ardoq Services, eliminating varied internal resources deadlines
• Use Enterprise Architecture governance for a more complete overview of their applications, owners, and experts

Looking Forward

In the longer term, thanks to their improved Enterprise Architecture governance, the company sees a “possibility to steer the organization” using Ardoq. In addition, they are considering implementing Scenarios alongside developing, testing, and validating ideas using Ardoq's sandbox.