Customize Your Metamodel, Data Structure & Terminology
In ABACUS, metamodels, notations, types, attributes, titles and other terminology can easily be customized so they represent your business accurately.
- Customize your data fields and data structure, business terminology and language, permissions and workflows, in-house
- Add your company logo, customize landing pages and dashboards
- Select a framework, or combine frameworks in-house using simple “drag-and-drop” commands
- Adjust your repository or restructure and update data in-flight as your business evolves
This powerful feature — widely recognized as key to both ease of use and future-proofing of enterprise architecture strategies — is enabled by ABACUS’ graph database.
Select EA Frameworks, Notations and Industry Standards
- Adapt a framework from the 100+ available as standard with ABACUS including TOGAF, ArchiMate, BPMN, PESTLE, Zachman etc.
- Use standards and libraries including NIST, SABSA, AWS, Azure, Balanced Scorecard, PESTLE etc.
- In ABACUS, metamodels, frameworks, notations, types, attributes, departments, titles and other other naming conventions and structures can easily be tailored so they represent your business accurately, and are familiar to your users
- Leverage multiple frameworks, selecting the best features of each, using “drag-and-drop” commands
- We also provide the Avolution metamodel which is assembled from leading EA frameworks including, TOGAF, ArchiMate, APQC and BPMN
Customize Diagrams & Icons
Select from a range of architecture icons and symbols
- Use shape libraries and templates to speed up diagramming eg. AWS and Azure icons for cloud and solution architectures
- Easily build and edit application & technology architectures, using canvas-and-stencil diagramming
- Set up your own icon libraries: upload symbols from Visio or based on your organization’s modeling requirements.
- Use popular modeling standards & notations including ArchiMate, TOGAF, BPMN & Zachman.
Get Started with ABACUS today
ABACUS is available on-premise, in the cloud or as a hybrid deployment.
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