The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Architecture Management Suites, Q1 2023

Enterprise Architecture Management Suites Vendor Product Comparisons 2023

Key features and pros and cons of top Enterprise Architecture Management Suites products:

BOC Group - Leaders

Pros:

Most improved EAMS vendor
Superior out-of-the-box support for security architecture use cases
Strong support for customer-facing and organization architecture use cases
Excels at customer experience modeling
Best practice and management support for security architecture
Strong risk mitigation capabilities
Good support for platform architectures
Environmental sustainability materiality analysis

Cons:

Lags in sustainability capabilities
Lags in support for insights analytics
Weak sustainability data management and carbon calculation

MEGA - Leaders

Pros:

Strongest offering overall
Superior support for customer-facing, security, resilient, and organization architecture
Excels at modeling and analyzing customer experience (CX) architecture elements
Strong security and risk frameworks support
Excellent risk and threat detection and management
Strong human capital assets modeling
Well-known in the EA market
Meets needs of both immature and mature EA professionals

Cons:

Lags in sustainability capabilities
Weak support for sustainability architecture
Poor approach to modeling sustainability support data

Orbus Software - Leaders

Pros:

Ideal tool for digital and organizational transformation
Superior support for resilient and sustainability architecture use cases
Excels in security architecture best practices
Strong resilient architecture threat detection
Excellent redundancy and dependency mapping
Strong support for insights and analytics
Good sustainability data management and calculation
Strong Microsoft alliance

Cons:

Could improve support for customer-facing architecture use cases
Could mature support for insights-driven architecture use cases
Out-of-the-box support for platform architectures lags others
Operationalization of security architecture lags others evaluated

Software AG - Leaders

Pros:

Strong holistic EA offering for the EAMS market
Superior support for customer-facing and insights-driven architecture use cases
Excels in foundational CX architecture
Strong insights analytics
Excellent operationalizing and human capital allocation in organization architecture
One of the strongest strategies overall
Strong customer adoption and roadmap approaches

Cons:

Could improve support for environmental sustainability architecture use cases
Lags in environmental sustainability carbon footprint calculations
Weak management of sustainability-associated data
Foundational support for security architecture lags others

Avolution - Strong Performers

Pros:

Strong algorithm-driven EAMS
Strong support for resilient and sustainability architecture use cases
Excels in best practice capabilities for security architecture
Strong data management of sustainability data
Good analysis of resiliency options
Very effective strategy overall
Strong partner ecosystem approach

Cons:

Weaker in organization architecture
Lags in out-of-the-box support for security
Weak organization design capabilities
Only provides foundational capabilities in modeling and analysis of human capital assets
Foundational security architecture capabilities lag others

Bizzdesign - Strong Performers

Pros:

Excels at insights-driven architecture
Superior support for insights-driven architecture use cases
Competitive advantage in support for platform architectures
Strong modeling and analysis of allocation of work
Continues to evolve offering to support EA trends

Cons:

Must improve CX architecture
Could strengthen support for sustainable architecture
Could strengthen support for customer-facing architecture
Lags in out-of-the-box support for data management related to sustainability architecture
Weak threat detection for resilient architecture
Foundational CX architecture support lags others
Needs to better utilize partner ecosystem

Capsifi - Strong Performers

Pros:

BA tool of choice
Superior support for customer-facing and organization architecture use cases
Excels in support for foundational CX architectures
Strong platform architectures support
Good human capital allocation
Strong product/service and customer alignment

Cons:

Needs to improve resiliency capabilities
Could significantly mature support for resilient and security architecture
Lags in most criteria for resilience, security, and sustainability architecture use cases
Out-of-the-box offering for environment sustainability data management lags others
Weak insights analytics
Poor threat detection and risk mitigation
Conservative strategy
Needs to reimagine innovation strategy

Ardoq - Contenders

Pros:

Strong data-driven capabilities
Strongest capabilities in providing advanced insights
Good operationalization of all six use cases
Effective strategy comparable to others evaluated

Cons:

Falling behind on security and CX
Should enhance out-of-the-box support for customer-facing foundation and modelling capabilities
Should significantly improve security architecture capabilities as they lag the market
Could improve strategic position by maturing use of partner ecosystem to innovate and build visionary roadmap

LeanIX - Contenders

Pros:

Fast-growing EAMS vendor
Strongly supports sustainability architecture use cases
Excels at sustainability architecture materiality analysis
Known as the agile EA tool
Pragmatic approach
Provides support for many leading EA capabilities

Cons:

Lags in key leading-edge use cases
Lags in support for customer-facing and organization architecture use cases
Out-of-the-box support for customer-facing architecture lags (particularly foundation and modeling)
Weak organizational architecture support (particularly analyzing and operationalizing human capital assets)
Security architecture support lags (particularly foundation and operationalization)
Customer adoption approach lags others evaluated

Planview - Contenders

Pros:

Data-driven planning and execution tool
Strong support for resilient architecture use cases
Strongest capability in support for resilient architecture use cases
Excels at providing insights and analysis of redundancy and overcapacity
Effective strategy
Well known for supporting transformations
Provides end-to-end transformation capabilities

Cons:

Lacks strong ESG capabilities
Could improve strategic position by reimaging how third parties can help vision, innovation, and ecosystem approaches
Offering can be improved by maturing support for security and sustainability architecture use cases
Lags in support for modeling CX architectures
Weak modeling, detecting, and analyzing security threats
Poor support for complete sustainability use case (materiality analysis, carbon footprint calculations, and associated data management)

ValueBlue - Contenders

Pros:

Good holistic EAMS
Pragmatic and effective offering
Competitive in all criteria
Strongest in supporting organization, sustainable, and resilient architecture use cases
Strong out-of-the-box support for organization architecture (particularly operationalization and human capital management)
Good sustainability architecture support (particularly materiality assessment)
Strong resilient architecture support (particularly dependency mapping and risk mitigation)
Effective strategy overall
Strong roadmap

Cons:

Needs to evolve leading-edge capabilities
Could improve offering position by maturing support for customer-facing, security, and insights architecture use cases
Lags in support for customer-facing and security architecture use cases
Only provides foundational support for threat detection, analysis, and management in resilient architecture
Could improve innovation and pricing approaches

EAS - Challengers

Pros:

Light touch EAMS for consultants
Pragmatic offering
Strongest capability in support of organization architecture use case
Provides foundational and improving support for all architecture use cases
Effective light touch EAMS tool
Supports all key functionality expected from established EA practice
Strong service/product to customer/value stream modeling
Good data type modeling

Cons:

Must improve resiliency and security
Lags out-of-the-box support for many architecture use cases compared to others
Needs to pay particular attention to insights-driven approach to architecture
Could improve position by building more extensive partner ecosystem
Should focus on leading EA trends to guide vision and roadmap

FAQs

Q: Which vendors are Leaders in 2023?

A: BOC Group, MEGA, Orbus Software, Software AG

Q: What does "Leader" mean in Forrester Wave terms?

A: Leaders in the Forrester Wave demonstrate the strongest current offering and strategy. They have superior capabilities across the evaluated criteria, particularly in supporting modern enterprise architecture use cases including customer-facing architecture, security architecture, resilient architecture, insights-driven architecture, environmental sustainability, and organization architecture. Leaders excel at providing the insights capabilities that drive organizational transformation and typically have strong market presence, vision, roadmap, innovation, customer adoption approaches, and partner ecosystems.

Q: How do I interpret a Forrester Wave?

A: https://www.forrester.com/policies/forrester-wave-methodology/

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