TOGAF Software for Enterprise Architecture

5-7 minutes

Actually not very long ago, modeling Enterprise Architecture Development was symbolized by three things: a pencil, a sheet of paper and a notations. However time marches on and technology evolves. Everything seems to be moving towards going digital. But are you ready to make the jump?

Why Many TOGAF Projects Failed?

Although businesses are aware of the advantages of an EA practice, it has never been an easy task to build an Enterprise Architecture. A problem many organizations face is inability to identify the place to start, and how to get started. The immaturity of Enterprise Architecture results in gaps and hurdles in the early stages that can stop businesses progressing further with the scheme.

In 2007, Gartner found that 40% of Enterprise Architecture initiatives would be stopped and a later survey in 2015 indicates that 70% of businesses were looking to either start, or restart an Enterprise Architecture program.

If you Google around for Enterprise Architecture tooling you will probably uncovered two alternatives:

Established EA tools with very high price tag, yet they only provide a tree-like structure of repository that contains a set of templates you to edit yourselves.
The second alternative would be some drawing tools, such as Visio that requires excessive management and juggling of information between multiple applications.

Your Ultimate Solution – Visual Paradigm

Visual Paradigm helps your team to kick-start any size of IT projects with automated guide-through process, with step-by-step instruction, input references and samples. You can develop deliverables incrementally and collaboratively with your team members with our project management platform. It will surely enhance and streamline the entire process with automated task management and notifications with task manager in both desktop and/or over the cloud environment.

Visual Paradigm offers two types of process management product: The Guide-Through Process and the Just-In-Time Process.

1. Typically, the Guide-through Process target for well-defined and widely used methodologies that people tend to follow it step by step without the needs to customize it.

2. While Just-in-Time Process aims to be used to automate more dynamic process or framework instead of a methodology, while could be easily adjusted or customized to deal with different nature of problems.

The benefits of Visual Paradigm Guide-through Process Approach

Structure TOGAF ADM into phases, activities and steps, and embedded within structions, samples and input references
Progress Indicator that shows you where you are and the status of completion for phases, activities and steps
Perform analysis, diagramming and work incrementally and generate deliverable and report automatically
Automatically transcribe data from one step to another for further actions or perform different forms of analysis
Carry forward of deliverable as input reference from one step to another
Assign activity or deliverables as task for different members with time schedule and role to the task manager automatically
Seamlessly integrate EA, Project Management process with Agile software development process and toolset