Inventoring
The first important benefit results from the structured documentation of the ‘as-is’ architecture. The inventoried enterprise architecture creates transparency. Impacts arising from intended changes on applications, business processes, and other elements of the architecture will be anticipated. Thus, associated risks can be identified and educated estimates will be more accurate. ADOit’s intuitive model editor, the role-based web client, and its customisable interfaces allow for efficient and sustainable management of EA information.

IT Demand & Project Portfolio Management

Functional requirements will be assigned to architecture elements and clustered into implementation projects. Based on this information Project Portfolio Management creates an understanding of the global connections of all current and proposed IT projects. Impacts of the projects on the IT architecture and all temporal interdependencies between the projects become transparent. Various ADOit reports like GANTT charts and project portfolio diagrams provide a sound basis for informed decision making.

Application Portfolio Management
Data about the applications of the organisation is collected and, based on functional, technical and financial criteria, classified and evaluated. Long-term goals are a homogeneous, standardised and non-redundant application landscape. This is designed in a way so that business processes are supported accurately. ADOit provides time-related views on the application landscape. Specific views like business capability matrices allow uncovering improvement potentials.

Technology Management
Technological architecture erosion is prevented with the implementation of technology management. The diversity of the deployed technologies will be standardised and governed. Thereby the maintainability of the application increases and consequently the costs of operation are reduced. Data about all technology products is clearly managed in the ADOit repository, including the technology lifecycle status. Technology roadmaps visualise the temporal dimension of technology products and support migration planning as well as release management.

Architecture Governance and Master Planning
Managing changes to the architecture in a cohesive way is the subject of this scenario. Based on the as-is architecture usually various alternatives of to-be architectures are designed and compared. After choosing the appropriate to-be architecture, intermediate architectures representing the roadmap for transforming the as-is into the to-be architecture are defined. Required transformation projects are derived systematically.
In ADOit, time-related states and variants of architectures are stored and sorted through versioning. Numerous reports support the communication and the evaluation of alternative architectures and assist in the decision-making process.

Data Management
Data Management facilitates the design of the prospective data architecture. The objective is to manage the data entities relevant to the organisation consistently and without redundancy.
By using ADOit the business objects can be collected systematically and assigned to applications. Thus, interdependencies between applications with respect to the planning and further development of the application landscape can be identified. Through reports, like CRUD matrices (Create-Read-Update-Delete), relations and redundancies are visible at the push of a button.