5 days ago

Five Process Models Examples (and Benefits!)

Topic: Business process management focuses on how the enterprise operates and delivers the results i.e. products and services to external and internal customers. Process models represent an abstract view of a business process and serve as a blueprint for implementing or improving it. A process model describes how the process works, what steps are involved,…

12 days ago

5 Steps to Optimize Business Process Models

Topic: Business Process management focuses on how the enterprise operates and delivers the results i.e. products and services to external and internal customers. Business process management practitioners face many challenges, among others, managing their process models in a structured way. Some practitioners struggle with process models that are hard to maintain and manage and views…

2 months, 9 days ago

The State of Enterprise Architecture Report Reveals Enterprise Architecture’s Top Priorities for 2023

The State of Enterprise Architecture report results are in! Nearly 1,000 enterprise architects and other senior IT and business stakeholders participated in this year’s State of Enterprise Architecture survey. We set out with 4 overarching questions in mind: Are enterprise architecture teams equipped to meet their organizations’ demands? How mature are the enterprise architecture practices…

2 months, 28 days ago

Why CIOs Need to Consider Application Rationalization for Digital Transformation

When talking to customers and prospects, I hear great ambitions for digitization. But I also hear about pains when they describe their IT landscape. Customers have often grown a complex IT landscape and lack transparency about their costs, or functional redundancy occurs, especially after mergers and acquisitions. Information about their IT landscape sometimes resides in…

3 months, 12 days ago

Future Trends Shaping Your Enterprise Architecture Program

Successful enterprise architects bring to bear a wealth of expertise across the business and the organization. They demonstrate their professional expertise by using an integrated SaaS platform like Bizzdesign Horizzon to get executives and IT change leaders proactive and dynamic insights to drive transformation and value delivery. But successful architects don’t travel alone… Apart from…

3 months, 19 days ago

How Applications Portfolio Management Supports Cloud Transformations

The adoption of cloud migration soared during the pandemic and this trend is set to continue. According to analyst firm Gartner, Inc, “By 2027, more than 50% of enterprises will use industry cloud platforms to accelerate their business initiatives.” Although cloud transformation has gained prevalence during the pandemic, adoption and growth have continued. Today, organizations…

4 months, 4 days ago

The Real Benefit of Application Portfolio Management Software

The real benefits of APM softwareCIOs of today are under continuous pressure to transform the IT landscape to respond to technologies disrupting existing business and operating models, regulatory requirements and other global drivers such as the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. IT portfolio managers and architects give them the insights they need to make investment decisions by implementing the application…

4 months, 19 days ago

Software Trends Impacting (Enterprise) Architects in 2023

Software Trends for Enterprise Architects in 2023Software is increasingly playing a critical role in the efficiency and effectiveness of all work processes in various industries. Over the last decades, we’ve seen that software has a disruptive power with the ability to create or make some jobs obsolete. Not only technology industries but end markets too, are impacted by software. It’s a…

4 months, 26 days ago

Solution and Enterprise Architects Must Collaborate for Successful Digital Transformation

At no time can an organization say they are finished digitally transforming, brush their hands off, and move onto the next thing. Instead, digital transformation requires organizations adopt change as a core competency. Change must be by design. Instead of looking forward to some theoretical final, transformed state, organizations must move from being less able…

5 months, 24 days ago

Make Swift Security Attestation Painless – Invest in Bizzdesign’s Swift CSP Compliance

If you’re in charge or part of the compliance team for Swift pre-attestation, you’ll know the complexities of getting the job finished. Bizzdesign’s Swift CSP Compliance (link to webpage) enables you to complete the mandatory annual Security Attestation, which forms part of the Customer Security Program (CSP), using architecture models built on our enterprise architecture…

5 months, 25 days ago

How to use the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Architecture Tools

How to use the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Architecture ToolsWe’re honored to be positioned as a Leader in the  2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Architecture Tools for the 7th consecutive time. We’re positioned in the Leaders Quadrant based on our completeness of vision and ability to execute. What it means to be positioned in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ A Magic Quadrant is a tool that…

6 months ago

An Approach to Kick-start, Implement, and Grow Capability-based Planning

Summary of our blog series on Capability-based Planning Our ongoing blog series on capability-based planning has covered a lot of ground. We started by explaining the basic concepts and the value of capabilities, addressed the design of capability maps, how to relate capabilities with your strategy and operating model, explored capability assessment and roadmapping, discussed…