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ARIS IT Architect

For Efficient Design and Implementation of IT Architectures

Corporate business processes are underpinned by complex IT environments, but over time many of these environments become increasingly diverse and difficult to manage. Greater structure and transparency are required so that business-critical IT systems can be identified and aligned with business processes. This necessitates the creation of an enterprise architecture (EA). In turn, establishing an enterprise-wide IT architecture calls for a clearly structured, easy-to-understand description method that includes all the relevant elements of current architecture standards.

ARIS IT Architect provides all the elements needed to build and manage enterprise-wide IT environments and synchronize them with business processes. This software product supports all the necessary planning processes, from documenting and analyzing the existing architecture to establishing a new architecture that is aligned with business processes.

In addition, ARIS Value Engineering for Enterprise Architecture offers a method for long-term alignment of the IT system architecture with strategic requirements.

Your benefits:

  • Integration of IT architecture and process management in a repository
  • Creation of a single inventory of systems and technologies within the enterprise
  • Specification and documentation of the organization’s IT standards
  • Wizard-based search functions and the linking of search requests allows ad-hoc analysis and reports across the entire enterprise architecture
  • Reduced complexity and costs of the IT environment
  • Creation of architecture portals when used in conjunction with ARIS Business Publisher

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Architecture set

Web-based, decentralized IT architecture management
ARIS IT Architect enables IT environments and business processes to be synchronized and managed in a central ARIS repository. A special IT architecture method is provided for this purpose, which contains all the necessary elements for architecture management.

Overview of the logical IT systems and classes deployed in an enterprise

Adding core IT elements to process models
The process model provides the basis for defining core elements of IT architectures, such as, application systems, data, and IT system requirements. After the design phase, the tool generates the required architecture overviews and detail views.

View of an IT organization map

IT organization maps ensure transparency
With the help of IT IT organization map, users can analyze the effects on the business of omitting certain IT systems and create a roadmap for the evolution of the IT environment.

Lifecycle report

Using reports to present IT and process information
Lifecycle reports describe various lifecycles, such as, those of IT systems. Reports and linked search requests analyze the impact of changes to business processes on the relevant IT systems. System redundancy can be detected and IT requirements identified.

View of a system information sheet

Building portals with ARIS Business Publisher
When used in conjunction with ARIS Business Publisher, all EA information can be posted on a company intranet or made available on the Internet via portals. Role-based access allows the various user groups to quickly view the information they need, facilitating cooperation between operational and IT departments.