Report:
The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Architecture Management Suites, Q1 2023
How does Forrester define the Enterprise Architecture Management Suites market in 2023?
Enterprise architecture management suites (EAMS) have evolved to support organizational transformation through efficiency, effectiveness, and value delivery. Only 3% of organizations are fully customer obsessed, but those grow 1.8 times faster. To achieve customer obsession, enterprise, technology, business, and organizational architectures must transform and mature together. Modern EAMS providers must offer insights capabilities that drive transformation, enable experimentation with organizational change, and protect organizational assets through sustainability, security, and resilience efforts. The evaluation assessed 12 vendors across 27 criteria grouped into current offering, strategy, and market presence.
Key Facts for The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Architecture Management Suites, Q1 2023 in 2023
- Publication Date: 16-Jan-2023
- Document ID: RES177674
- Summary: In our 27-criterion evaluation of enterprise architecture management suite providers, we identified the 12 most significant ones — Ardoq, Avolution, Bizzdesign, BOC Group, Capsifi, EAS, LeanIX, MEGA, Orbus Software, Planview, Software AG, and ValueBlue — and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report shows how each provider measures up and helps enterprise architecture professionals select the right one for their needs.
- Authors: Gordon Barnett, Charles Betz, Sara Sjoblom, Jen Barton
How did the Enterprise Architecture Management Suites market evolve in 2023?
- Only 3% of organizations are fully customer obsessed, but these organizations grow 1.8 times faster than the rest
- Organizations are undergoing extensive business model and operating model transformations to achieve customer obsession
- Enterprise, technology, business, and organizational architectures must transform and mature together
- EAMS providers have adapted offerings to support transformations through efficiency, effectiveness, and value
- Internal stakeholders require proactive and dynamic insights rather than pure modeling tools
- Organizations need to experiment with different architectural configurations to support vision and strategy
- Sustainability, security, and resilience efforts build trust, improve brand, and open new markets
- 12 vendors evaluated across 27 criteria in three categories: Current Offering, Strategy, and Market Presence
What product features are required to be included in this year's evaluation?
- A specific level of revenue — deemed large or midsize in Now Tech: Enterprise Architecture Management Suites, Q2 2022
- Proven foundational EAMS capabilities and competitive capabilities needed by the modern EA practice
- Clients across the globe with appropriate partners and support models to support EAMS clients
- A viable, actively maintained, and purpose-built EAMS
What are the common features of top products in the Enterprise Architecture Management Suites space?
No common features specified.
Scope Exclusions
- Vendors not deemed large or midsize in revenue according to Now Tech: Enterprise Architecture Management Suites, Q2 2022
- Vendors without proven foundational EAMS capabilities
- Vendors without competitive capabilities needed by modern EA practice
- Vendors without global client presence and appropriate partner/support models
- Vendors without viable, actively maintained, purpose-built EAMS solutions
- Vendors that declined to participate or contributed only partially to the evaluation
Inclusion Criteria
Vendors must, among other requirements:
- A specific level of revenue — deemed large or midsize in Now Tech: Enterprise Architecture Management Suites, Q2 2022
- Proven foundational EAMS capabilities and competitive capabilities needed by the modern EA practice
- Clients across the globe with appropriate partners and support models to support EAMS clients
- A viable, actively maintained, and purpose-built EAMS
Offering Strengths — Relative Weighting
- Customer-facing architecture — 17%
- Security architecture — 17%
- Resilient architecture — 17%
- Insights-driven architecture — 17%
- Environmental sustainability — 16%
- Organization architecture — 16%
Strategy Strength — Relative Weighting
- Vision — 10%
- Roadmap — 17%
- Innovation — 17%
- Adoption — 17%
- Pricing flexibility and transparency — 14%
- Partner ecosystem — 25%
FAQs
Q: What does this research cover?
A: This research evaluates the 12 most significant enterprise architecture management suite (EAMS) providers across 27 criteria grouped into current offering, strategy, and market presence. It assesses vendor capabilities in six key use cases: customer-facing architecture, security architecture, resilient architecture, insights-driven architecture, environmental sustainability, and organization architecture. The evaluation helps enterprise architecture professionals understand how vendors support organizational transformation through modeling, analytics, and insights capabilities.
Q: Who should use this research?
A: Enterprise architecture professionals should use this research to select the right EAMS provider for their needs based on their organizational maturity, transformation priorities, and architectural focus areas. The research is particularly valuable for EA practices looking to move beyond pure modeling tools to support digital transformation, business model changes, and operating model improvements. Users can adapt the evaluation criteria weightings using the Excel-based vendor comparison tool to match their specific requirements and priorities.
Q: What are the mandatory features of vendors included in this market?
A: To be included in this evaluation, vendors must have: 1) A specific level of revenue deemed large or midsize according to Forrester's Now Tech report; 2) Proven foundational EAMS capabilities and competitive capabilities needed by modern EA practice; 3) Clients across the globe with appropriate partners and support models; and 4) A viable, actively maintained, and purpose-built EAMS solution.
Q: What are some reasons for not being included in this report?
A:
- Insufficient revenue (not deemed large or midsize vendor)
- Lack of proven foundational EAMS capabilities
- Missing competitive capabilities needed by modern EA practice
- Insufficient global client base
- Inadequate partner and support models for global EAMS clients
- Solution not viable, actively maintained, or purpose-built for EAMS
- Vendor declined to participate in evaluation
- Vendor provided only partial participation in evaluation process
Q: What should buyers consider when evaluating products in this market?
A:
- Look for providers that provide insights capabilities that drive transformation through proactive and dynamic insights rather than just modeling tools
- Ensure the EAMS enables organizations to experiment with organizational change through modeling, assessments, analytics, and visualization of customer-facing and operating model architectures
- Verify the solution protects organizational assets and brand through architectural views that highlight strategic misalignments, immature capabilities, and weaknesses in enterprise, business, and technology architectures
- Assess support for sustainability, security, and resilience architecture use cases
- Evaluate the vendor's ability to provide dynamic modeling, scenario analysis, and maturity assessments in near real-time
- Consider the vendor's approach to AI and algorithm-driven capabilities for insights and analytics
- Review the vendor's strategy including vision, roadmap, innovation approach, and partner ecosystem strength
Q: How has the Enterprise Architecture Management Suites market evolved in 2023?
A:
- Organizations aspiring to be customer obsessed are undergoing extensive business model and operating model transformations
- Enterprise, technology, business, and organizational architectures must transform and mature together rather than independently
- Internal stakeholders require proactive and dynamic insights rather than pure modeling tools for decision-making
- EAMS must support transformation through a lens of efficiency, effectiveness, and value
- Growing need for insights capabilities including dynamic modeling, scenario analysis, and maturity assessments through AI technologies
- Demand for architectural views that enable experimentation with different organizational configurations
- Increased focus on sustainability, security, and resilience to build trust, improve brand, and open new markets
Q: What differentiates Strength of Offering vs. Strength of Strategy?
A: Current Offering (vertical axis) evaluates the strength of each vendor's present product capabilities across six use cases: customer-facing architecture, security architecture, resilient architecture, insights-driven architecture, environmental sustainability, and organization architecture. Strategy (horizontal axis) assesses the strength of vendors' future direction and market approach, including their vision, roadmap, innovation, customer adoption strategies, pricing models, and partner ecosystem development.
Reference
- Forrester, The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Architecture Management Suites, Q1 2023, 16-Jan-2023, ID RES177674
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