14:25:18 From henry to Everyone: louis - did you look at inspi?
14:26:45 From jeff kennedy to Everyone: Gartner's "critical capabilities" for EA Tools point to things we are discussing just now, like integration and framework support and presentation and repository... * Analysis * Configuration and Management * Extensibility * Frameworks * Innovation Management * Integration * Intelligent Automation * Modeling * Presentation * Publication * Repository
14:27:13 From jeff kennedy to Everyone: Replying to "Gartner's "critical ..." ^^ for those with Gartner access here is the latest on that: Frangou, A., Gianni, A., Steinmetz, A., & Jhawar, A. (2023) _Critical Capabilities for Enterprise Architecture Tools_, Gartner Research, Article ID G00784644, available at https://www.gartner.com/document/4953731 — Enterprise architecture tools support the delivery of business outcomes by providing a central repository for managing and analyzing enterprise data to highlight the impact of change. EA leaders need to assess the product capabilities of vendors in relation to five key use cases.
14:29:08 From jeff kennedy to Everyone: ITSM vendors are totally trying to get into this space, and (not in any way seeking to be dissonant with Louis!) the likes of ServiceNow are enormously expensive to have at all, and then to add in the other features and modules like APM brings more of that, and their own representation world (like the ServiceNow "Common Services Data Model") can be idiosyncratic to the point of being actually befuddling.
14:29:37 From jeff kennedy to Everyone: Replying to "ITSM vendors are tot....and somewhere in your own use cases is also the ability to model across $time like current and transitional and future states.
14:32:29 From jeff kennedy to Everyone: #fyi @henry and @J.J. Du Chateau (Wisconsin) = we're working with the Essential folk currently and will be offering *.DUP versions of HERM3.1 mid-year for {BRM, DRM, ARM, TRM}.
14:33:41 From J.J. Du Chateau (Wisconsin) to Everyone: Didn't mean to scare folks. For some tools the meta-model is very important, others have flexibility and allow you to simplify as you like.
14:35:18 From henry to Everyone: that is good news Jeff.. wish it happened a year earlier!!
14:35:31 From henry to Everyone: it will make it easier for those behind us!
14:36:08 From jeff kennedy to Everyone: Replying to "that is good news Je...me too! < apologies!
14:41:22 From jeff kennedy to Everyone ...beyond the IT estate, i'm also interested in how and where we link up things from the business-operations side of things, like business process mining, etc.
14:47:17 From J.J. Du Chateau (Wisconsin) to Everyone: For audience, there could be a difference between those using the tool, those seeing direct output from the tool (diagrams, reports, etc.), and those who get information from someone using the tool.
14:48:36 From jeff kennedy to Everyone:...not to plumb only Gartner's depths here, from their "eight things" piece some of what Mary spoke to just now about implementation effort comes through as = "Organizations often underestimate the time and commitment required to deliver value from an EA tool." = and notes that vendor/consultant assistance is often installation-based rather than implementation-based.
14:49:10 From jeff kennedy to Everyone:Replying to "For audience, there ..+1 and massive differences there between those two groups both for licensing cost and for learning curve!
14:49:43 From Stephanie M Warner to Everyone: Is the Archimate language used in the 4 tools mentioned in the survey?
14:51:48 From jeff kennedy to Everyone: Here is a "licensed for distribution" copy of that Gartner MQ for EA Tools (this was shared in the CAUDIT EA community by a member who accessed from one of those very EA Tool vendors Mary mentioned just now!).
14:52:57 From J.J. Du Chateau (Wisconsin) to Everyone: Replying to "Is the Archimate lan..."I know Sparx EA is a UML-modeling tool that supports ArchiMate. Essential doesn't use it as far as I know.
14:56:51 From Todd Schaefer to Everyone Thank you for the great information.
14:58:57 From Dana Miller I UTA to Everyone: Thanks, Mary, Henry, and Louis!
14:59:02 From Stephanie M Warner to Everyone This was a fantastic session, Mary. Thank you!
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Gartner Research
Jhawar, A., Miers, D., Hart, N., van der Heiden, G. (2021) _Toolkit: How to Construct a Winning RFP for Buying EA Tools_, Gartner Research, Article ID G00729425, archived but available at https://www.gartner.com/document-reader/document/4000496 — This Toolkit helps enterprise architecture/technology innovation leaders define and clarify EA tool use cases, and develop an effective RFP that differentiates vendors and their product offerings, driving better purchase decisions.
van der Heiden, G. (2023) _8 Steps to Select and Obtain Value From Enterprise Architecture Tools_, Gartner Research, Article ID G00784838, available at https://www.gartner.com/document-reader/document/4145899 — An enterprise architecture product is not “just a tool” — its features and functions support business and IT, making it an enterprise application. Enterprise architecture and technology innovation leaders must follow our eight steps to select the most appropriate EA tool and obtain value from it.
Frangou, A., Gianni, A., Steinmetz, A., & Jhawar, A. (2023) _Critical Capabilities for Enterprise Architecture Tools_, Gartner Research, Article ID G00784644, available at https://www.gartner.com/document/4953731 — Enterprise architecture tools support the delivery of business outcomes by providing a central repository for managing and analyzing enterprise data to highlight the impact of change. EA leaders need to assess the product capabilities of vendors in relation to five key use cases.