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Deborah Theseira

Ask the Experts About AI in EA: Should Organizations Be AI-First or AI-Enabled?

4 weeks ago by Deborah Theseira

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 …

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Beyond the Box: How EA Tool Vendors Kickstart Your New Enterprise Architecture Practice

1 month ago by Deborah Theseira

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.

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5 EA Trends in AI: Uncomfortable Truths from 30 Practitioners

1 month ago by Deborah Theseira

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.

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The 100x Problem: When AI Builds Faster Than You Can Govern

2 months ago by Deborah Theseira

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…

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Agentic AI and the Future of Enterprise Architecture

5 months ago by Deborah Theseira

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…

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Innovation Highlights: Ardoq’s 2026 AI Hackathon

6 months ago by Deborah Theseira

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…

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How Washington State Modernized IT Reporting With Ardoq

8 months ago by Deborah Theseira

Across the US, state agencies face a dual reality: pressure to modernize digital services and shrinking budgets.

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What Is a Graph Database and Why They Are the Best Choice for EA

9 months ago by Deborah Theseira

If you are trying to map your modern organization using a spreadsheet or a rigid CMDB, you are fighting a losing battle.

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Preparing for an AI-Driven Future | Ardoq

10 months ago by Deborah Theseira

Artificial intelligence is reshaping every aspect of enterprise leadership, and CIOs and Enterprise Architects are standing righ at the center of that shift.

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Data-Driven EA: Why Out-of-the-Box Integrations are Non-Negotiable

1 week ago11 months ago by Deborah Theseira

Remember when Enterprise Architecture (EA) was mostly about static diagrams and thick binders? It was a world of manual data entry, where Enterprise Architects painstakingly mapped out the IT landscape using spreadsheets and Visio. This tradit…

Categories #eavoices, data management, Enterprise Architecture, Integrations Tags #eavoices

Ardoq Named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for EA Tools

11 months ago by Deborah Theseira

For the fifth consecutive year, Ardoq has been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Architecture Tools. We believe this recognition reflects our continued focus on innovation, customer value, and delivering the most fl…

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New Frontier for EA: Ardoq + Lucidchart Integration & AI Importer

June 10, 2025 by Deborah Theseira

For decades, a fundamental disconnect has challenged Enterprise Architecture and architects: dynamic data is never accurately represented in static diagrams. These visuals, crucial for planning and collaboration, too frequently become outdated…

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