Model business capabilities and business architectures:
- Business Capability Maps to visualize core business functions and map out change
- Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) to communicate process flows clearly
- Customer Journey Maps to model and identify touchpoints and pain points in the customer journey
- Value Streams to capture and visualize key activities that deliver value
- Cost Analysis: automate cost roll-ups, cost attribution calculations, monitor cost trends
Use business architecture tools and reference models
Business architecture templates and frameworks can fast track your work. Options available in ABACUS include:
- Business Capability Maps
- Business Process Models
- TOGAF (Phase B of the ADM describes Business Architecture)
- BizBok
- Business Model Canvas
- Business Motivation Model (BMM)
- PESTLE (Business Strategy Framework)
- Unified Modeling Language (UML)
- Security frameworks including SABSA and NIST
- Graph Views
- Financial models and cost calculations
Connect Data, Diagrams & Models
Centralize data in your architecture repository with our integrations and API.
- Connect Visio, UML and BPMN diagrams and Excel data so they stay linked
- Edit and share data and diagrams in browser editable dashboards, keeping information up to date
- Model business, application and technology views
- Set up dashboards to automate reporting of progress and metrics
Guide: Aligning Enterprise Architecture with Process Modeling:
Business Process Modeling & Management is used to improve businesses in a competitive market. Read our guide to achieving a unified approach, brining together architecture and process modeling:
Model and analyze business capabilities and processes using standard notations
Set up your repository and dashboards to suit your enterprise and goals
Present business, application, data and technology views
Assess scenarios and build roadmaps
Report using dashboards which display real-time data