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Agenda

  • Roll Call (East to West) Name and Institution
  • Call for a Scribe
  • Main Topic - EA Tools Comparison Vendor #01 - Essential Presentation
    • Henry Pruitt, New York University
    • John Mayall, Essential Architecture Services
    • Sarah Smith, Essential Architecture Services
  • Working Group Updates
  • Close

Notes

  • The Essential Project has been around as an open-source project since 2009 and has had a commercial offering since 2017.  The goal here is to enable anyone to do enterprise architecture.
  • EAS value proposition is working in the single-price, transparent-pricing, all-you-can-eat licensing for USD$19,500.
  • Essential became the most-popular open-source enterprise-architecture tool in the world, as the data-management component — alongside Archi for ArchiMate (drawing component).
  • Essential has now made it into the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools:
  • Core features available through the various versions can be seen in the graphic below, noting that there is still a run-it-yourself open-source version available and the fully-featured Essential Cloud version available either to be consumed through software-as-a-service or by running your own Docker-container:
  • There is EAS-facilitated Essential Higher Education User Group (co-chaired by Henry Pruitt (NYU) and Karen Moore (The University of Sydney).  Though that group, the Essential product-management roadmap and features are being shaped to better meet the needs of the EDU communities.
  • Essential is also working with the CAUDIT Higher Education Reference Models Working Group to offer the latest version of the Higher Education Reference Models as an Essential-ready artefact to help folk get up and running.
  • The overall metamodel is well-described at the EAS website, and includes a bunch of domains, like these:
  • There are about 140 supplied views and reports available across the various architecture domains and their intersections:
  • Overall, the premise is "Data In, Insights Out", with many practices integrating data between application catalogues mastered in systems such as their ITSM and Essential through API interfaces, opening the door for the creation of a wide range of views and reports that meet the needs of various key stakeholder audiences:
  • Integration with Essential is either manual and flat-file based or uses APIs — APIs are available in the cloud version of Essential, and there are "eighty or ninety REST endpoints" available in there.

Further Information

Resources

Essential Architecture Services

Gartner

  • Gianni, A., Frangou, A., Steinmetz., A., & Jhawar, A.  (2023) Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools , Gartner Research, Article ID #G00784483, available at https://www.gartner.com/document-reader/document/4947731 — EA tools help envision, model and plan for the future of the enterprise, offering features to continuously evolve business and operating models. Enterprise architecture leaders should select EA tools that support long-term transformation, modernization and innovation goals.
  • Enterprise Architecture Tools Ratings and Reviews: https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/enterprise-architecture-tools

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