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Essential – Open Source EA Tool

Essential Open Source EA Tool – Free Enterprise Architecture Software

Unlock the full potential of your enterprise with Essential Open Source, the ultimate free enterprise architecture management tool. Designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of your organisation’s people, processes and systems

Features

 

Visualise Interactions

Understand how people, processes, IT applications, data, and infrastructure interact

Identify Opportunities

Spot areas for improvement and assess the impact of changes

Support Decision Making

Use high-level models to drive planning and communication

Comprehensive Features

Enjoy a rich ontology-based meta-model, multi-lingual support, and over 140 views and visualisations

Why Choose Essential Open Source?

Cost-Effective

Perfect for teams with no budget for a tool.

 

 

Community-Driven

Developed with input from practising architects.

Support

Access support via our active forums.

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The Essential Enterprise IT Architecture tool helps you to understand how the people, functions, processes, IT applications, data, infrastructure, suppliers and customers interact across the business. Essential enables you to spot opportunities to improve and to assess the impacts of planned changes to the operating model.

The tool provides a high-level model of the business that can bhttp://”https://enterprise-architecture.org/solutions/by-role/ “e used to support planning, decision-making and communication across the organization. It also helps you to understand how your organization is operating today, how it has evolved over time and where you want it to go in future.

Essential is a data-driven approach to enterprise architecture software that provides a 360 view of your business. It can be used by EA teams, Business teams and project teams as well as senior management and is designed to drive digital transformation, operational efficiency and strategic planning in a digital world.

The Essential Open Source EA tool is for teams that seek to do better Enterprise Architecture and for those with no budget for strategic planning tools. It has evolved based on input from practising architects from both the EA community and from the project sponsors EAS. Essential Open Source is available as an open-source download from our website.

We built Essential OS as a suite of freeware tools to support our EA consulting needs and the needs of Enterprise Architects in supporting the CIO, CxO’s and, ultimately, the entire organisation.

This is a free EA tool and support is via the forums.

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