2025 Release Review: The Year of Connected Intelligence

Key Ardoq Platform Innovations

2025 redefined what Enterprise Architecture can be. We nearly doubled our feature velocity and delivered innovations that help teams see clearer, scale smarter, and move from modeling change to actively orchestrating it. This transformation was driven by connected intelligence at scale. Explore the highlights that shaped a transformational year for Ardoq and our customers.

AI-Powered Intelligent Automations

From Helpful Automation to Intelligent, Model-Aware Reasoning

In 2025, AI in Ardoq evolved from speeding up tasks to understanding the structure and logic of your organization. These capabilities turn your enterprise model into a reasoning engine that guides decisions with confidence.

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Model-Aware Insights in Plain Language

Ask complex architectural questions and get grounded, contextual answers - powered by your live dependencies, ownership, and usage data with the AI Gateway (MCP Server).

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Write Questions, Not Queries

Generate Advanced Search queries from natural language. No syntax required, just describe what you're looking for.

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Explore Your Architecture Through Conversation

Chat with Ardoq (beta) lets users explore reports and insights conversationally - making architecture as approachable as asking a colleague

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From Process Mapping to Process Intelligence

Generate and refine processes with natural language. AI turns workflows into diagrams instantly, bridging execution and architecture like never before.

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Structured Models in Minutes, Not Weeks

AI-generated value streams and capability models give teams rapid, contextual starting points for strategic analysis.

Connected Ecosystems

Integrations That Connect More Systems, More Data, and More Decisions

2025 delivered our most ambitious integration roadmap yet, connecting Ardoq to the tools where your teams design, operate, and optimize.

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Turn Diagrams Into Living Architecture

Visually design in Lucidchart, then instantly import your visuals into Ardoq as structured, connected data.

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Cleaner, Faster, More Reliable Syncs

Upgraded integrations - including ServiceNow and Azure - deliver smoother performance, richer resource coverage, and more reliable synchronization at scale.

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Real Process Execution Meets Enterprise Architecture

Our Celonis integration brings real operational data into Ardoq, revealing how processes actually run and how IT changes affect them.

Human-Centered Experiences

Empowering Every Role With Easy to Find, Context-Aware Insights

This year, we transformed Ardoq’s user experience to make architecture easier to understand, navigate, and update - not just for specialists but for business users across the organization too.

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Turn Insights Into Action

Dynamic filtering, inline editing, and shareable filtered views make dashboards and reports living decision tools that adapt to every audience.

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A Unified Contributor Experience

The simplicity of Discover, now brought into Ardoq Core (beta). One permission model, consistent viewpoints, and smoother navigation for thousands of business users.

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From Static Info to Actionable Insight

The redesigned Component Overview Page (beta coming soon) transforms a once-static view into an actionable touchpoint. Edit in place, create references faster, and work with data in context.

Enterprise-Grade Scalability

Architecture That Grows Securely, Reliably, and With Full Visibility

As enterprises grew more complex, we strengthened Ardoq’s foundation to ensure scalability never compromises control. 2025 brought major improvements in governance, security, and data quality, all built to support even the most complex organizations.

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Complete Access Oversight, Stronger Governance

Easily see who can access what across every workspace and asset. One unified view for permissions, audits, and bulk updates.

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Collaboration Without Compromising Data Quality

Critical updates now flow through the right approvers, ensuring accuracy at scale and maintaining trust in your architectural model.

One Place to Manage All Your Data

Managing enterprise architecture data shouldn’t be a chore. That’s why we built Data Inventory - a unified, scalable, and secure way to browse, edit, validate, and report on your data in a single, intuitive interface accessible to all users.

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Protect the Structure of Your Enterprise Model

Metamodel guardrails guide contributors and prevent accidental drift, keeping your architecture consistent and secure as you scale.

Solutions That Turn Insight Into Action

Solutions Built to Govern Risk, Accelerate Value, and Drive Enterprise Transformation

Our solutions portfolio expanded rapidly in 2025, giving organizations guided pathways through regulatory compliance, value creation, and responsible AI adoption.

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Govern AI Adoption With Confidence

AI Lens helps organizations track AI usage, owners, risks, and controls - aligning adoption with regulations like the EU AI Act and ensuring safe, strategic use of Agentic AI.

Stay Audit-Ready With Less Effort

Built-in frameworks like DORA and NIS2 mapped directly into your architecture for always-current, traceable compliance.

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Understand and Improve How Value Flows

AI-assisted Business Value Streams help teams map, analyze, and optimize the value they deliver, accelerating strategy execution.

On-Demand Webinars

See It All in Action
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Watch the Q4 Ardoq Release Review Webinar!

Missed the live session? Watch the on-demand webinar to see the latest features in action, complete with live demos and expert insights from our product team.

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Governing the Rise of AI Agents

Agentic AI is everywhere.Driving automation and decisions across critical systems, it brings both opportunity and risk. Watch this 30-minute session to see why governance is as urgent as cybersecurity and how to turn AI risk into strategic advantage.

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Governing the AI Surface Area: From Agents to Architecture

Explore how to govern AI systems across data, architecture, and operations — without slowing innovation. You’ll see how the AI Governance Solution helps identify and classify AI systems, assess their quality through health checks, and align them to frameworks like the EU AI Act.

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From Experiments to Enterprise Value: Inside Ardoq Labs

See how early AI experiments evolve into enterprise-ready features and what’s coming next.