Report:
Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools
How does Gartner define the Enterprise Architecture Tools market in 2023?
Gartner defines the market for Enterprise Architecture Tools as tools that allow organizations to examine both the need for, and the impact of, change. They allow users to capture the interrelationships and interdependencies within and between an ecosystem of partners, operating models, capabilities, people, processes, information, and applications and technologies. They provide a central repository to capture data and metadata about the artifacts that an enterprise cares about, and their related life cycles. Models represent the relationships between these artifacts and are themselves treated as assets that help describe and shape the future of the enterprise. EA tools provide a means to model the business and IT aspects of the enterprise in support of business outcome delivery, requiring collaboration of multiple stakeholders across the organization. EA tools have two aspects: first, providing a modeling environment with a supporting repository; second, facilitating collaboration between diverse stakeholders from business strategy to IT.
Key Facts for Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools in 2023
- Publication Date: 20 November 2023
- Document ID: G00784483
- Coverage: Global
- Authors: Andrew Gianni, Andreas Frangou
- Core Purpose: EA tools help envision, model and plan for the future of the enterprise, offering features to continuously evolve business and operating models. Enterprise architecture leaders should select EA tools that support long-term transformation, modernization and innovation goals.
Strategic Planning Assumptions
No strategic planning assumptions provided.
How was the Enterprise Architecture Tools market evolved in 2023?
- EA tools provide a centralized, consolidated source of truth about the enterprise, capturing constraints of IT assets, processes, value streams, change programs and projects
- Tools are increasingly integrated directly with adjacent categories such as PPM, CMDB and innovation management
- Many vendors provide tooling to integrate with leading providers like ServiceNow and Jira
- Vendors are leveraging generative AI to provide enhanced features for repository management and artifact generation
- Three notable M&A activities in 2023: UMT360 acquired by North Highland, SAP announced intent to purchase LeanIX, and Bizzdesign acquired Edifit
- Market has 10 Leaders, 1 Challenger, 1 Visionary, and 3 Niche Players
- Tools support diverse stakeholders from business strategy to IT, requiring collaboration across the organization
- Standard capabilities include repository, modeling, presentation, analysis, configuration, publication, integration, extensibility, innovation management, intelligent automation, and framework support
What product features are required to be included in this year's evaluation?
- Repository: Provides a single source of truth for the organization with storage, categorization and versioning of objects, models and artifacts of various sorts, as well as the relationships between them, and related business artifacts and views.
- Modeling: Structures relationships across entities, such as business strategies, objectives, goals, constraints, capabilities, personas, customer journeys, activities, processes, value streams, policies, decision models, metrics, applications, technologies, roadmaps, projects and programs.
- Presentation: Displays and illustrations of information in the form of dashboards, heat maps, models and scenarios that contribute to the presentation capability of the tool. A variety of visual presentations helps colleagues understand and assess the impacts associated with decisions and proposed solutions.
- Analysis: Identify, assess, prioritize and track gaps, challenges, opportunities and risks within and across portfolios of business capabilities, investments, processes, projects, applications and technologies.
- Configuration and management: Setup and administration features to support the EA tool's security, along with setting up different classes of users, their access rights and feature alignment including controlling access to information stored in the repository.
- Publication: Enables wide consumption of the data contained within the EA tool across the enterprise and beyond. Tools should also be able to capture comments and feedback on that content and/or score elements contained in repository views.
- Integration: Expose and import data to and from other products, enabling the EA tool to be a hub uniting other common tools in the enterprise technology ecosystem. This includes categories such as product management, configuration management database (CMDB), PPM, business process management suite (BPMS) and process mining.
- Extensibility: Extend the metamodel of the EA tool through the definition of new modeling concepts and relationship types — up to new graphical representations and enforcing domain-specific rules.
- Innovation management: Mechanisms that support the creation and tracking of innovation and change initiatives. This includes support for ideation, trendspotting and the engagement of colleagues, PPM links and benefits realization.
- Intelligent automation: AI-assisted and automated features that help EA practitioners industrialize their activities and outputs delivering value more quickly and reliably, while keeping information up-to-date and fresh. These features should focus on process and policy automation functionality used within the tool (rather than served up externally).
- Frameworks: Starting point for structuring the repository and the relationships among artifacts, focusing on support for different architectural methods and vertical industry models. This includes support in choosing the EA frameworks to adopt and to identify overlaps and gaps.
What are the common features of top products in the Enterprise Architecture Tools space?
Scope Exclusions
- Products that are suites requiring customized integration to access and exchange data between components
- Revenue from hardware and professional services
- Products not generally available as of 30 April 2023
- Products that do not support all use cases defined in the Market Definition/Description
- Products that do not include or embed all capabilities as described in the Market Definition/Description
- Third-party products requiring separate licensing (unless clearly identified)
Inclusion Criteria
Vendors must, among other requirements:
- At least $8 million in licensing revenue over the calendar year 2022 for its primary EA product OR 30% year-over-year revenue growth for the last three calendar years
- At least five new customer wins (net new logos) headquartered in each of a minimum of two of the four major geographic regions with its primary EA product in production for a total of 10 new customers in two regions in 12 months
- An installed base of at least 50 customers (unique logos) that used its primary EA product in production
- General availability as of 30 April 2023 for its primary EA product
- Primary EA product demonstrably supporting all use cases and including/embedding all capabilities as described in the Market Definition/Description section
Ability to Execute — Relative Weighting
- Product or Service - Medium
- Overall Viability - High
- Sales Execution/Pricing - High
- Market Responsiveness/Record - Low
- Marketing Execution - Low
- Customer Experience - Medium
- Operations - Medium
Completeness of Vision — Relative Weighting
- Market Understanding - Medium
- Marketing Strategy - Medium
- Sales Strategy - Medium
- Offering (Product) Strategy - High
- Business Model - Medium
- Vertical/Industry Strategy - Medium
- Innovation - High
- Geographic Strategy - Medium
FAQs
Q: What does this research cover?
A: This research evaluates 15 vendors in the Enterprise Architecture Tools market based on their Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. It covers vendors' product capabilities, market presence, financial viability, sales execution, customer experience, and strategic vision. The evaluation includes five key use cases: enterprise transformation management, IT portfolio management, advanced roadmapping, solution architecture design and delivery, and innovation and sustainability. The report provides detailed strengths and cautions for each vendor across the Leaders, Challengers, Visionaries, and Niche Players quadrants.
Q: Who should use this research?
A: This research should be used by enterprise architecture leaders, CIOs, and IT decision-makers who are evaluating, selecting, or replacing EA tools to support their organization's transformation, modernization, and innovation initiatives. It helps organizations understand vendor positioning in the market, assess which vendors best align with their specific needs based on maturity level, geographic presence, industry focus, and required capabilities. The research is particularly valuable for organizations planning long-term digital transformation programs, seeking to improve IT portfolio management, or needing to support strategic planning and execution alignment between business and IT.
Q: What are the mandatory features of vendors included in this market?
A: Mandatory features for vendors included in this market are: 1) Repository for single source of truth; 2) Modeling of relationships across business and IT entities; 3) Presentation through dashboards and visualizations; 4) Analysis capabilities for gaps and opportunities; 5) Configuration and management for security and user access; 6) Publication for enterprise-wide consumption; 7) Integration with other enterprise tools; 8) Extensibility of the metamodel; 9) Innovation management for tracking change initiatives; 10) Intelligent automation using AI/ML; and 11) Framework support for architectural methods and industry models.
Q: What are some reasons for not being included in this report?
A:
- Insufficient licensing revenue (less than $8 million in 2022 without 30% year-over-year growth for three years)
- Insufficient market momentum (fewer than 10 new customer wins across at least two major geographic regions)
- Small installed base (fewer than 50 customers using the product in production)
- Product not generally available by 30 April 2023
- Product does not support all required use cases
- Product does not include or embed all mandatory capabilities
- Product is a suite requiring customized integration rather than a single unified solution
- Primary offering is not an EA tool but rather a tool from an adjacent market
Q: What differentiates Ability to Execute vs. Completeness of Vision?
A: Ability to Execute focuses on the vendor's current operational performance, including product quality, financial viability, sales effectiveness, customer support, and day-to-day execution capabilities. It measures how well vendors deliver on their promises today. Completeness of Vision evaluates the vendor's strategic direction and future-oriented planning, including market understanding, innovation, product strategy, business model soundness, and geographic/vertical strategies. It assesses how well vendors anticipate and shape future market needs and their ability to influence market direction over a three-year horizon.
Reference
- Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools, 20 November 2023, ID G00784483
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