Ahead of The Curve in EA innovation, ABACUS Supports Self-Service Data Management:
- Cloud-based collaborative data management, supporting remote working
- Reduces the workload of the enterprise architecture team
- Part spreadsheet, part database, updating directly to your repository
- Update processes easily using editable online diagrams
- Embed dashboards and data registers in workplace social software
- Interactive dashboards and roadmaps for digital strategy and analysis
Lighten Your Data Workload
Rather than losing hours dealing with data-update requests, set up browser-editable lists which streamline updates.
Data owners throughout the enterprise update content themselves, managing portfolios of assets, technologies, infrastructure, processes and projects.
Free up time to focus on analysis, strategy and communication. Access controls, permissions, approvals processes and change logs still allow you to keep a close eye on data quality and governance.
“Our ABACUS Dashboards and Editors ensure that the wider organisation can take responsibility for their own data and can access it in a self-service fashion.”
Collaborative Enterprise Architecture
Designed for the Whole Enterprise:
C-Suite
Executive Approvals Process
Assemble a “Review-and-Approval Dashboard” which brings together tailored charts and diagrams and their connected data portfolios in a browser.
- Dashboard links can be sent or embedded in an email, tab or report
- Stakeholders or executives can review the dashboard then comment, edit & approve
- Stakeholders stay engaged with email notifications about edits and chat integrations
Small Teams Who Need Big Results…
Architecture teams often face the challenge of establishing an influential EA practice with a small expert team. ABACUS supports these teams with efficient data management.
- Decision makers can tap into real-time information on business and IT assets, processes and resources
- Data-owners can handle their own updates to data & diagrams
- Architects gain time to focus on strategy, planning and communication
…Or Large Global Enterprises
ABACUS dashboards ensure that the wider organisation can be responsible for their own operational and planning data.
- Updates change in real-time so they can be checked and accessed immediately
- Avoid conflict between the wider organisation and EA team over out-of-date data
- Set up permissions and approvals processes, and monitor change logs
- Data is more accurate, and visualisations show changes in real-time
Manage Consultancy-Client Data Collaboration Smoothly
Enterprise architecture consultants can empower clients to update their enterprise architecture repository themselves.
- Avoid frustration caused by delays in data maintenance
- Make sure clients can keep their own data accurate
- Solve back-and-forth messaging and time zone issues
Enterprise Data Management in the Cloud
Visualize and Filter for Focused Insights
- Zero in on subsets of operating processes, capabilities, and applications. Filters and sorting are immediately reflected in other visualizations
- Charts and diagrams auto-update when data is changed
- Create connections by selecting from a list of possible attachments
- Create drop-down and pick-lists and classify them using colour
Light Touch Data Management
- Create or edit components via user-friendly forms
- Type or edit free-form text in cells, just like editing a spreadsheet
- Set permissions and approvals to control data quality (allow notifications to monitor changes)
- Integrate with Excel, Visio, SharePoint, ServiceNow etc.
Architects shouldn’t need to act as data stewards, but they do need to make sure data is maintained.
Understand & Take Action
- Easily set-up dashboards and tailored viewpoints
- Provide real-time visibility of appropriate information.
- Assemble dashboards from a selection of interactive charts, including Graph View, Gantt, Capability Maps, Heatmaps, Treemaps, Pie and Bar Charts.
- Stakeholders can drill-down, review data and take action
Analytics For Technical & Business Metrics:
- Structured data: link records between tables/lists and diagrams/models
- Apply analytics and machine learning for more complete and accurate data
- Use algorithms (pre-built or no-code) to automate calculations
- Calculate cost, risk, impact, probability and monitor trends in metrics
Dashboards for Your Enterprise
“Business Users Don’t Even Need to Know They’re Using an EA Tool”
Share dashboards, diagrams, process models & editable data catalogs as tabs in workplace social software
Building Cloud Architecture Diagrams with AWS icons in ABACUS