Enterprise Architecture

Evolving Technology. Better Results.

Get real results by connecting technology to strategy with enterprise architecture capabilities in Planview software. Engage your business partners with easy-to-understand visuals—and together—create winning digital experiences for your customers.

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Drive breakthrough digital customer experiences with enterprise architecture capabilities in Planview software

Digital experiences that delight customers are the norm today. Technology is the driving force that makes it all happen. How do you build a solid technology foundation that drives business strategy smarter and faster to outpace the competition? With Planview’s enterprise architecture capabilities, you can easily engage your business partners with high-impact visualizations, and together, make smarter decisions on business and technology initiatives that drive the business forward.

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  • Visualize enterprise needs or gaps for business and technology initiatives and make recommendations to drive the most powerful outcomes. View • a larger version of the image
    Strategy Mapping & Alignment

    Visualize strategic goals linked to enabling capabilities and technology

    Visual representations illustrate cause and effect relationships, linking desired strategic objectives to the required operational change. Capture enterprise and business unit strategic goals and map to the business and operating models and enabling technology landscape.

    Visualizing key components and relationships, such as, capabilities (comprised of people, process, information, and technology), products, customer journeys, and associated value streams, clarifies strategic goals and how to effectively deliver.

    • Provides alignment of strategy to organization
    • Enables the rationalization of initiatives
    • Improves communication and fidelity of objectives
    • Supports capability-centric investments
    • Helps organizations understand and adapt rapidly
    • Provides ability to monitor progress towards strategic objectives
  • Organizational goals and strategies aligned with environmental factors to assess impacts and model options to respond to change View • a larger version of the image
    Enterprise Resiliency

    Confidently respond to internal and marketplace challenges and opportunities

    Understand and manage the ability to adapt to positive or negative changes in your environment, both internally and externally. Optimize all capabilities, e.g., business continuity, business and technical impact analysis, disaster recovery, tier response, traceability, and their associated lifecycles.

    • Model critical information in one repository to visualize dependencies and impacts
    • Model strategies for mitigating risk or leveraging new opportunities to strive for continuous efficiency and innovation.
    • Run business and technology impact analysis
    • Document where business continuity and disaster recovery plans exist
    • Measure performance metrics via cost, risk, importance, and criticality factors to assess alignment and scalability.
    • Create roadmaps on how to address challenges
  • Assess confidentiality risks of your information landscape in relation to both integration of applications and respective technologies, and expected lifespans View • a larger version of the image
    Information And Systems Mapping

    Protect the enterprise—prevent, detect, and control data security to reduce risk and ensure compliance

    Define and manage the physical, logical, and conceptual layers of your organization’s information and systems domain to make better investment decisions about change, provide governance around data protection requirements e.g., privacy, risk, security, and compliance.

    • Organize and structure enterprise information
    • Understand information confidentiality, criticality, retention
    • Maintain compliance and respond to audits for PCI, PII, PHI, or other critical information
    • Identify risk of data breach based upon technical debt, vulnerabilities, and health
    • Understand information usage, data lineage, and process/application mapping
  • Applications landscape – divided into supporting capabilities, sized based on TCO, shaded based on required technologies – shows areas to reduce costs and technical debt, while minimizing impact. View • a larger version of the image
    Application Portfolio Optimization

    Optimize your application portfolio to achieve your business objectives

    Optimize your application portfolio by understanding the impact of application changes, business demand, and strategic priorities while working to reduce cost and complexity, and increase business value

    • Understand what applications support the business
    • Understand how applications are aligned with business priorities
    • Identify possible functional redundancy
    • Understand the costs of individual applications and the overall portfolio
    • Identify applications at risk due to underlying technologies
    • Understand information security impacts and risk
    • Score and analyze applications by criteria that reflect business and technical priorities
    • Plan application retirement and replacements through fact-based analysis, and build the application roadmap and transition plans
  • Visualize product development and delivery capabilities mapped to supporting technology and applications to reveal gaps or changes that may require further investment. View • a larger version of the image
    Technology Architecture Management

    Visualize the future of new technologies to keep ahead of your competition

    Proactively understand what technology exists today to make the right investments to support digital initiatives—whether to re-use existing technology or add new technologies to the portfolio

    • Provide line of sight to technology risks associated with age and support
    • Support technology standards governance decisions and determinations
    • Create and manage technology roadmaps
    • Reduce the technology footprint and complexity
    • Plan technology retirement and replacements through fact-based analysis, and build technology roadmap and transition plans
    • Determine current and future technology resourcing needs
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Learn more about the enterprise architecture capabilities in Planview Solutions

These Planview solutions include enterprise architecture capabilities

  • Strategic Portfolio Management

    Get a clear view into digital transformation and other strategic initiatives, empowering your organization to deliver outcomes faster.

  • Product Portfolio Management

    Prioritize high-value products, identify risks and opportunities, optimize resource capacity across the portfolio, and effectively evaluate product performance.

  • Project Portfolio Management

    Optimize program and project portfolios, balance capacity against demand, prioritize work, focus resources, and empower teams to deliver work that drives value to the business.

EA capabilities for digital transformation, technology strategy, and enterprise architecture leaders.

Whether your organization is assessing existing and new technologies to keep pace with customer expectations or looking to build a future-forward digital strategy to stay ahead of your competitors, Planview has enterprise architecture capabilities for you. Reach out and we’ll help you find the best fit for your unique requirements.

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