Avolution has been recognized by Gartner, Inc. as a Leader in the 2025 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools, published on October 6, 2025, by analysts Austin Steinmetz, Andrei Razvan Sachelarescu, Fred Ganter, and Andrew Gianni. This marks the ninth consecutive year that Avolution has been positioned as a Leader in this evaluation.
Avolution was also recognized in the companion Gartner Critical Capabilities for Enterprise Architecture Tools 2025 report, where Avolution’s ABACUS achieved the highest score for EA Governance among evaluated vendors.
“Avolution is built to give enterprises clarity and confidence. Whether it’s rationalizing portfolios, embedding governance, or providing real-time dashboards for leadership teams, our focus has always been on making complex decisions straightforward.” said Mark Steyn, CEO of Avolution. “We’re grateful to our customers and partners for their trust and collaboration. Their feedback continually shapes Avolution, driving us to deliver innovations that help enterprises accelerate transformation, manage risk, and achieve measurable results.”
Empowering Enterprise Architecture Teams Worldwide
The Magic Quadrant assessed 10 vendors based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute. ABACUS continues to support organizations seeking enterprise-wide visibility, stronger governance, and measurable business outcomes.
According to Avolution’s 2025 Business Value Survey, 94% of ABACUS users reported improved visibility and control over their IT assets and architecture, underscoring the platform’s impact on decision-making and transparency across complex enterprises.
Avolution: Comprehensive, Data-Driven, and Collaborative
Organizations using Avolution’s ABACUS can:
- Optimize IT Investments: Manage portfolios, allocate resources, and drive value from technology spending.
- Streamline Transformations: Map business capabilities, processes, and technology to support decision-making.
- Roadmap Change: Adapt quickly to shifting requirements and market dynamics with scenario planning and flexible modeling.
- Mitigate Risk: Manage enterprise and IT risk, including security posture and regulatory compliance.
Avolution also provides:
- Powerful Modeling & Diagramming: Free-form or automated diagrams with support for industry frameworks.
- Data-Driven Insights: Rich dashboards, one-click filters, and no-code algorithms for business and IT stakeholders.
- Collaborative Workspaces: Browser-based forms, tables, diagrams, and dashboards for distributed teams.
- Strong Framework Support: Including TOGAF, BIAN, ArchiMate, BPMN 2.0, AWS, Azure & C4 modeling, SABSA, NIST CSF, NIST AI
- Risk Management Framework.
- Robust Governance Framework: Compliance, accountability, and auditability.
Our Ongoing Journey: Innovation and Growth
Following strategic investment from Whiteoak in 2024, Avolution has expanded its product development and operations, opened new offices, and strengthened its global R&D footprint.
The upcoming ABACUS 15 release continues with this momentum, delivering enhancements in data integration, modeling efficiency, and usability. Key new features include a Data Adapter for real-time BI integration, ITSM synchronization, and federated data access, establishing a foundation for advanced impact analysis, semantic search, and AI-assisted architecture capabilities.
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Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools” by Austin Steinmetz, Andrei Razvan Sachelarescu, Fred Ganter, and Andrew Gianni, Published on October 6, 2025.
About Avolution
Avolution produces ABACUS, used by thousands of organizations worldwide to deliver enterprise architecture, roadmaps, and digital business analysis. ABACUS enables teams to integrate and collaborate on data via editable cloud-based lists and diagrams, build models and roadmaps, run analytics and algorithms, and report with rich visuals and dashboards.
To learn more about how Avolution can support your cost optimization and transformation initiatives, visit Avolution Software
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