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An analytical software for enterprise architecture and IT portfolio management
What do you like best about the product?
The most helpful thing for Ardoq it increase visibility to the customer. It helps in delivering high quality software depending on the relevant industry.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing, I would say comparing with different product. We have faced some bugs and glitches in the platform which handling complex data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is helping us in managing the complexity of our IT system and helps us in visualizing the data on the centralized platform.
Flexible and powerful EA tool
What do you like best about the product?
Ardoq is extremely flexible, and generally a pleasure to use. It has a modern design sensibility that makes it a good fit for a Fintech company like ours.
What do you dislike about the product?
A few niggles around the visualisations that can detract from the experience for other teams in the organisation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ardoq is helping us map the organisation across all the architecture domains, which helps create shared understanding, and directly feeds in to GRC activites.
Very good platform for mapping your architecture and dependencies.
What do you like best about the product?
The survey and presentation funcitonality. This lowers the thresshold for demo and discussion with non Ardoq familiar stakeholders.
What do you dislike about the product?
The inital use of Ardoq without ardoq specific training makes it cumbersome to get started or to familiize yourself with the tool or find what you need.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Visualization of impacts for system changes. System of records for current implemention. Input tool to architects for further development.
Powerful and flexible tool together with helpful professional consultancy
What do you like best about the product?
Very high flexibility in the tool, allowing you to do almost anything. Together with a clearly structured roadmap on how to deliver value to your organization, Ardoq is like Thor's hammer for architects.
What do you dislike about the product?
Unless you follow the standard templates, it can become confusingly complex very quickly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Creating transparency over what IT entities realise what business capabilities, and how they are interwoven and connected to strategic initiatives provides high value in all aspects of strategic planning and transformation architecture.
Ardoq solves the problem of scoping and sizing initiatives in the right way, and aligning them timewise to realise optimal cost-benefit ratios.
Ardoq solves the problem of scoping and sizing initiatives in the right way, and aligning them timewise to realise optimal cost-benefit ratios.
With Ardoq Architecture becomes a valuable tool in your information management toolkit.
What do you like best about the product?
Multiple visualisations of the same data
What do you dislike about the product?
Complex landscapes need elaborate filters
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Ardoq for the full EA spectre, from strategic business management (Capability Management), through process, information to application and hardware layers. It has proven especially valuable in integration management and application portfolio management with powerful built-in tools and visualizations.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
1. Consider the value of the visualizations Ardoq provides to non-architects rather than seasoned architects.
2. Consider the maintainability (and therefor up-to-dateness) of your current architecture products
2. Consider the maintainability (and therefor up-to-dateness) of your current architecture products
Managing Organizational Complexity with Ardoq
What do you like best about the product?
Ardoq software lets us:
- effectively manage a complex architectural landscape
- connect, document and query data across different architectural domains by using the power of the graph technology
- easily review and understand collected data with the help of automated and dynamic visualizations
- use built-in templates
- run effective application portfolio management
- use a set of simple and goal oriented surveys to collect and maintain data that is spread across different organizational units
- bring valuable insight and give a better understanding of the big picture of our architectural landscape to the rest of the organization through the use of dynamic presentations
- upcoming finctionality for use of scenarios to map target architectures and explore alternative designs
- effectively manage a complex architectural landscape
- connect, document and query data across different architectural domains by using the power of the graph technology
- easily review and understand collected data with the help of automated and dynamic visualizations
- use built-in templates
- run effective application portfolio management
- use a set of simple and goal oriented surveys to collect and maintain data that is spread across different organizational units
- bring valuable insight and give a better understanding of the big picture of our architectural landscape to the rest of the organization through the use of dynamic presentations
- upcoming finctionality for use of scenarios to map target architectures and explore alternative designs
What do you dislike about the product?
Overall, we are happy with the Ardoq tool. One issue that we would like to address is compliance with the WCAG 2.0 requirements and universal design. Some visualizations do not fully comply with universal design principles and WCAG -standards but we hope that Ardoq will address and solve this issue in the near future.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Just knowing how many IT-systems we had, how they were connected, how much they cost and who were responsible for their operation and maintenance, and conveying this information through the Ardoq tool to the whole organization in a comprehensible way, was a big benefit for us. The possibility to query the graph database gave us new insights and enabled a completely new level of structure and support for better decision making; decisions based on accurate facts.
One of our main challenges was collection of EA related data from the whole organization and keeping it up to date. This task got much easier when we started using Ardoq’s survey module. By hiding the EA complexity and Ardoq models behind a set of simple and goal oriented surveys or forms, we were able to collect and maintain data that was spread across different organizational units, and to put it into structures that we defined in Ardoq. The use of Ardoq surveys and dynamic presentations helped us enable better collaboration across organizational functions, better convey enterprise architecture concepts, and thus achieve broader organizational engagement.
We're also using Ardoq to document our GDPR compliance.
One of our main challenges was collection of EA related data from the whole organization and keeping it up to date. This task got much easier when we started using Ardoq’s survey module. By hiding the EA complexity and Ardoq models behind a set of simple and goal oriented surveys or forms, we were able to collect and maintain data that was spread across different organizational units, and to put it into structures that we defined in Ardoq. The use of Ardoq surveys and dynamic presentations helped us enable better collaboration across organizational functions, better convey enterprise architecture concepts, and thus achieve broader organizational engagement.
We're also using Ardoq to document our GDPR compliance.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The Ardoq tool is a very powerful and flexible EA tool for work with enterprise architecture. We recommend ordering a trial from Ardoq to explore it's features and many of the ready templates.
An effective tool
What do you like best about the product?
an efficient and flexible tool, easy to add new fields / values
What do you dislike about the product?
maybe a little too flexible with new fields, possibility for losing track
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
has gained a better overview of portfolio and especially integrations between systems
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Jus buy it, you get value
Data driven EA for oraganisational needs
What do you like best about the product?
Being a cloud solution new improvements are scheduled and released .. constantly new things are added and it works like a charm.
What do you dislike about the product?
this tool may not be for everyone, wish we could onboard everyone but takes time from free hand drawing world people
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Application portfolio, Business process, integration overview, as is and to be state architecture are some of what we have realized
We have used Ardoq as an EA tool for 1,5 years
What do you like best about the product?
- Flexible datamodel
- dynaimic updates
- cloud service
- import data functions
- analytics and visualization functionality
- great support and quick to fix fault
- dynaimic updates
- cloud service
- import data functions
- analytics and visualization functionality
- great support and quick to fix fault
What do you dislike about the product?
- lack of support ticket system makes customer followup bad
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- managing EA-business models
- Portfolio mgt
- visualisation Tools
- EA scenarion planning (used beta functionality which is great)
- Portfolio mgt
- visualisation Tools
- EA scenarion planning (used beta functionality which is great)
Recommendations to others considering the product:
- Evaluate needs before choosing EA tool
- Business driven EA and Ardoq Works well together
- Business driven EA and Ardoq Works well together
A fantastic architecture tool with the HIGHEST standard in customer service
What do you like best about the product?
- User interface
- Modelling capabilities
- Customer service
- Lots of options for visualizations and dashboards
- Option for extensive analytics capabilities
- Integration possibilities
- Modelling capabilities
- Customer service
- Lots of options for visualizations and dashboards
- Option for extensive analytics capabilities
- Integration possibilities
What do you dislike about the product?
- Young tool
- Many missing features
- Difficult analytics
- Many missing features
- Difficult analytics
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We initially used Ardoq specifically for modelling applications architecture to figure out as-is and to-be states after a significant change to our technology landscape.
We are now using the tool to do cost/benefit analysis of solutions, trace privacy information from source to destination and also to define a standard language for discussing technology models.
In addition we are piloting the concept of delegating architecture to teams of subject matter experts using the Ardoq Scenario feature.
We are now using the tool to do cost/benefit analysis of solutions, trace privacy information from source to destination and also to define a standard language for discussing technology models.
In addition we are piloting the concept of delegating architecture to teams of subject matter experts using the Ardoq Scenario feature.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Community! Rely on your community of experts around your organization to help build your architecture.
The best way to do that is to delegate architecture around your organization.
To ensure that everyone speaks the same language and models the same way, ensure that all architectural spaces have the same model.
(Application architecture for team 1 is the same model as for team 2, business architecture for team 3 is the same model as for team 4).
So that there are not too many "fingers in the pie", make sure that users have write access to the spaces they are the subject matter experts for and read access to other spaces.
Then use a community of practice to request, approve and introduce model changes for the whole community.
This allows for breaking down of silos between teams and also allows the model to evolve over time.
The best way to do that is to delegate architecture around your organization.
To ensure that everyone speaks the same language and models the same way, ensure that all architectural spaces have the same model.
(Application architecture for team 1 is the same model as for team 2, business architecture for team 3 is the same model as for team 4).
So that there are not too many "fingers in the pie", make sure that users have write access to the spaces they are the subject matter experts for and read access to other spaces.
Then use a community of practice to request, approve and introduce model changes for the whole community.
This allows for breaking down of silos between teams and also allows the model to evolve over time.
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