An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
As enterprise leaders struggle to adapt to the fast-paced demands of the digital era, they are finding renewed interest in a long-practiced capability: architecture. But rather than the often technology-centric approaches of so-called enterprise architecture (“EA”), enterprise leaders are, instead, turning to a broader view dubbed business architecture. The need has become acute as organizations recognize that they must clearly understand their business capabilities, operating processes, organizational assets, and their supporting technologies — in context — to be able to pivot and adapt as the market demands.
The challenge, of course, is that the overhead and rigidity of traditional EA tools made their adoption and use and expensive and often frustrating endeavor. FIOS Insight aims to change this dynamic. The company designed its flagship product, Insight-EA, around business context and includes a wide array of tools and views that make it easy to model and manage the complexities inherent in adopting a business architecture practice. Its objective is to become the system of record for business capabilities and to provide technologists and business managers alike the tools they need to manage the combined business, operational, and technology models simultaneously.
Its clients claim that it is its flexibility and the ability to rapidly create and change models that set it apart from other tools. Moreover, the fact that the company designed its interfaces to be accessible in a business context, means that it is typically used as a common language to bring otherwise disparate groups together as they manage their operational state and plan transformational activities. Finally, built on top of a modern, cloud-native technology stack, the company’s platform is well positioned to be a first-class citizen in the modern enterprise management portfolio.
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