Essential Viewer
2 min
The Essential Viewer allows you to view the knowledge captured in the Essential Meta model in a topic-organised way to address areas of concern within an organisation, as well as support decision making. Its interactive views make complex data simple to understand, enabling an EA to support CxOs and business users in ensuring informed decisions and effective management of risk for an organisation.
It comes with a large number of Views, Catalogues, Reports and Models to view the information about your organisation, and, for Cloud/Docker users, the ability to easily maintain the data directly from the viewer using various methods, drag and drop data capture, BPMN flow editor, editors, etc.
The Essential Viewer is organised in Portals, you can create portals for different areas of your organisation. Initially, it is set-up with the Enterprise Architecture Portal and View Library. You can, however, configure Essential by adding, removing portals to meet your own needs, and defining the reports within them.
A quick walkthrough showing how to use the Essential Demo Viewer.
The Essential demo, minus the editors, drag and drop, etc data capture, is available here.
Updated 17 April 2025