Enterprise Architecture Management

Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) is a simple approach to the systematic development of your company and helps to capture the complexity of frequent organizations.

IT is changing fast. Whether it's transformation projects, generative AI or a new location with a different ERP system. Maintaining an overview, avoiding license costs and implementing IT projects in a strategy-oriented manner is a growing task for successful companies. The means to power is called Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) - sounds bulky, but it's simple. Or would you build a house without an expert architect making sure that your water doesn't flow out of the socket? You should do exactly the same in your company!
 

The image below demonstrates the parallels between classic architecture and enterprise architecture management. In contrast, Enterprise Architecture Management enables the digital ecosystem of a company.

Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) is a cross-departmental approach to harmonize the company's strategy, business objectives, requirements and IT systems. Various tools are available to achieve this harmonization. These include classic methods such as the Business Model Canvas or process modeling. Enterprise Architecture Management uses this modeling to describe the architecture of the company and thus shows the connections between the business objectives, the IT landscape and the business processes. Enterprise Architecture Management is therefore often referred to as the "Google Maps" of companies. Different views of the company can be generated and information retrieved as required.

Professional tools, such as LeanIX, are bundled in one place and expanded to include options for describing IT systems, interfaces, and data flows. As Enterprise Architecture Management has been developed as a method in science since the 1980s, today's Enterprise Architecture Management has a broad repertoire of tools, procedures, and entire frameworks. The The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is the best-known of these frameworks, which many tools use as the basis for their approach.

If you implement Enterprise Architecture Management correctly in your company, it will bring decisive advantages that will have a positive impact on your company's success:

There are a number of solution providers for enterprise architecture management tools on the market. Open-source solutions such as ArchiMate are available free of charge but are often too complicated for practical use. In the Gartner Magic Quadrant ©, LeanIX from SAP has been the market leader for years, but providers such as GBTEC also offer exciting solutions for modeling enterprise architecture. LeanIX can be used to fill out profiles for each architecture object (i.e., IT system, process, or project). The key information and the connection to other profiles are recorded in each of these profiles - so you can see which branch office uses which ERP system versions with just one click!

Arvato Systems will work with you to make your enterprise architecture management successful. From the initial idea to long-term implementation. Our approach focuses on both technology and people. It systematically accompanies your company in developing a target picture, selecting a suitable tool, and introducing it to the company. Our service portfolio includes solutions such as SAP LeanIX or BIC EAM. However, our certified Enterprise Architects will also show you how to introduce and use Enterprise Architecture Management without a software solution. Avoid unnecessary extra work during initialization with Arvato Systems!