Begin with enterprise architecture management

Alfabet 's Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) provides a unifying discipline for understanding, steering, and optimizing the many interconnected portfolios that make up an enterprise’s digital and business landscape. EAM expands portfolio insight by unifying diverse portfolios of applications, technologies, services, standards, and AI capabilities into a coherent enterprise-wide view that supports strategic decision-making. By integrating these domains, leaders can identify dependencies and risks across the organization, govern architectures through shared principles, policies, and standards, align investments and roadmaps with business outcomes, and optimize resources by reducing redundancy and improving service quality. By consolidating information across domains, EAM equips CIOs and other decision-makers with the strategic insight needed to guide transformation, ensure governance, and make directional choices that align technology with business priorities.

The license package Enterprise Architecture Management is required to work with the following use cases, classes, and business questions:

  • The use case AI Portfolio Management must be activated to work with the classes AI Use Case, AI Feature, AI Model, and AI Technology and the business questions What is our AI portfolio roadmap?, What are our AI dependencies?, and Where does AI impact business?
  • The use case Architecture Governance must be activated to work with the classes ICT Object, ICT Object Category, Standard Platform, Standard Platform Category, Peripheral, Policy, Policy Group, Principle and the business question What are our business priorities?
  • The use case Service Portfolio Management must be activated to work with the classes Service Group, Business Service, Support Service, Business Service Level Agreement, Support Service Level Agreement and the business questions What is our service catalog?, What are our service overlaps?, What is our service landscape?, What is our service roadmap?, Who are our service providers and consumers?, Where do we have SLA violations?, and What are our service costs?. The use case Service Portfolio Management is not yet documented.