Aggregated enterprise architecture wisdom
Deborah Theseira Most large organizations already have a CMDB, and for many of them, that CMDB is ServiceNow. It already has a lot of operational IT information; it has an owner, and it works. So when an EA platform comes up, the question is fair: what would i…
Most disaster recovery plans get tested the same way: during an actual disaster. While regulators enforcing DORA and NIST2 are only just starting to hand out penalties, we’re already seeing the cost of non-compliance in news headlines. The glo…
Have you ever asked two different AIs, say Gemini and Claude, the exact same question about the exact same spreadsheet, and gotten two different answers? There should only be one right answer, so why aren’t they the same, and are they even cor…
Put four enterprise architects in a room and ask them how AI should fit into architecture practice, and you will not get a single answer. However, it will spur a deeply insightful conversation about the very real struggles organizations today …
Starting a new Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice is a major organizational shift, not just a software installation. Investing in a new platform for enterprise architecture gets the technology right, but that’s only half the battle.
We brought enterprise architects and IT leaders together for our Customer Advisory Board this spring, and the conversations didn’t go the way most AI panels do. Nobody argued about whether AI matters, but instead what it’s exposing.
AI is making it easier than ever to build software. That’s the exciting part that everyone is talking about, but it is not the full story of what happens in practice after the software is built, when someone has to run it, secure it, and answe…
For the past few years, AI in the enterprise has largely been about content generation and assistance. Smarter search. Auto-generated descriptions. Recommendations surfaced at the right moment. These are genuinely useful capabilities, but they…
This February at Ardoq’s hackathon, we traded incremental updates for radical rethinking. 2026’s edition was designed to challenge our approach to Enterprise Architecture (EA). The goal was to give our people the freedom to think big and innov…
Across the US, state agencies face a dual reality: pressure to modernize digital services and shrinking budgets.
If you are trying to map your modern organization using a spreadsheet or a rigid CMDB, you are fighting a losing battle.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping every aspect of enterprise leadership, and CIOs and Enterprise Architects are standing righ at the center of that shift.