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[H2] Transforming EA into Business Value

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A healthcare organization used Avolution to identify over 15% of applications for rationalization, resulting in over $3 million in annual savings.

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55%

Improvement to risk scores

A software firm used Avolution to identify and monitor risks across their technology portfolio, resulting in a 55% improvement in overall risk scores across its portfolio.

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ROI

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Unify people, data, and strategy with a connected Enterprise Architecture.
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We can drill down on the relative vulnerability rating for a particular server in a few moments. This makes for much more intelligent decisions.
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– Ameritas

For major infrastructure projects, using ABACUS enables us to take the complexity out of what is an interconnected system of systems.
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– Arup

Thanks to ABACUS we were able to stay on track with our statutory obligations and help our stakeholders with time-critical decisions.
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– University of Edinburgh

Everyone can find the information they are looking for without needing to ask. The browser-editable catalogs in ABACUS Enterprise allows users of products to update the list, making it much easier to maintain.
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[H2] Powering Your Transformation Journey

Starting with the top 5 EA use cases and scaling to the next 30 and beyond. We keep your data, processes, and models seamlessly connected so your team can move from insight to decision at speed.

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[H3] Application Portfolio Management

Evolve your applications and processes to drive business impact and stakeholder satisfaction.

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[H3] Strategic Roadmapping

Supercharge your roadmaps & strategies with connected data, diagrams and analytics.

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[H3] Risk Management

Build models and roadmaps using cybersecurity frameworks. Present security scores and risk analysis.

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[H3] Business Process Modeling

Easily design and update processes, and use diagrams to collaborate and communicate.

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[H3] Technical Debt

Use cost and risk analysis to identify hard dollar savings and methods to manage technical debt.

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Why Avolution
[H2] Making the Invisible Visible

Bringing clarity to decisions that accelerate transformation.
Expose the critical systems, costs, and risks shaping your technology landscape.

[H2] clarity. control. confidence.

[H3] Empower Enterprise Decisions Through Data Clarity

Automate and monitor key metrics, security, and costs to gain real-time visibility into performance.
Empower teams to create tailored insights using no-code analysis tools aligned to business and technical needs.

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[H2] design & align

[H3] Achieve Direction & Alignment with Easy-to-Build Models & Roadmaps

Design both solution and cloud architectures with clarity and precision, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
Test scenarios using current and future-state architecture models to validate decisions, reduce risk, and plan confidently for change.

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[H2] data powered decisions

[H3] Unlock Quicker, Connected Data with a Single Source of Truth

Align business goals with technical detail to drive smarter, faster decisions. Connect capabilities, applications, processes, and technology into a unified architecture.
Roundtrip and centralize data with Excel, Visio, CMDBs, adapters, integrations, and our REST API.

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[H2] Navigate Your Path to Success

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Blogs

Posted on May 11, 2026
NIST AI Risk Management Framework (RMF): A Complete Guide for Enterprise AI Governance
Explore the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, including 2026 updates, AI governance best practices, generative AI risk considerations, and how enterprise architects can manage AI risk with ABACUS.

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Analyst Reports

2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Architecture Tools
Avolution are proud to be recognized as a Leader for the 9th consecutive year!

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Case Studies

CERN
CERN leveraged ABACUS to establish a standardized approach to EA that enhanced collaboration and streamlined decision-making.

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Blogs

Posted on May 1, 2026
Enterprise Architecture in 2026: Trends, Skills, and Strategies
Explore the biggest enterprise architecture trends for 2026, the skills EA leaders need, and how architecture teams can support AI adoption, governance and scenario planning.

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Videos

How Admiral is Automating, Communicating, & Accelerating Technology Roadmaps
In this conversation-style webinar, leaders from Admiral share how they are turning architecture data into actionable insights, moving beyond PowerPoint to dynamic, decision-enabling roadmaps that support change, strategy, and collaboration.

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[H2] AVOLUTION’S ABACUS FEATURES:

[H3] Map your route to cost savings & growth

Discover why 1000s of professionals globally choose Avolution.

Scalable Transformation — Supporting every stage of your EA journey, flexible, resilient, and ready to grow with your organization.

Leading EA Governance – Robust governance capabilities that give leaders clarity, control, and assured alignment across the enterprise.

Experience Complete Configurability – Select from hundreds of prebuilt standards and templates and adapt them to your business requirements.

Advanced Modeling Capabilities – Dynamic, domain-wide modeling with unified data and diagrams, all synced. Plus ready-made AWS and Azure icon sets for rapid delivery.

[H2] Leading EA modeling

Design, plan, and communicate your architecture with clarity and speed.
Build and edit architecture visuals with ease using an intuitive canvas and stencil-based diagramming tools.
Set clear timelines for projects, technology lifecycles, risk initiatives, and major transformations using dynamic roadmaps and charts.
Map current and future-state scenarios to compare options, evaluate impacts, and guide strategic decision-making.
Jump-start your modeling with industry standards and frameworks prebuilt to help you get up and running quickly.

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[H2] Business Capability mapping

Understand your business from the top down with a clear, connected view of capabilities, processes, applications, and technology.
Map business capabilities to applications, processes, technologies, and other core components for a complete, connected view.
Import and integrate data on business units, functions, and strategic goals to align architecture with real operational needs.
Analyze dependencies and relationships to quickly spot redundancies, gaps, and opportunities for optimization.
Start fast with industry standards like TOGAF, BizBok, and PCF—all available out of the box to accelerate your capability modeling.

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[H2] Smarter, Faster & More Secure

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[H3] Leadership & Innovation

Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for EA Tools for 9 consecutive years. Highest score for EA Governance in Gartner CCA.

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[H3] Expert Modeling & Analysis

Design your EA – enjoy drag-and-drop or automated diagramming and modeling and automate calculations.

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[H3] Powerful Configurability

Select from prebuilt standards and templates and adapt them to your business requirements.

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[H3] Secure, Cloud-Based Technology

Work directly and securely in your browser. Ideal for global teams and remote working.

[H2] Unified Architecture for a Data-Driven Enterprise

Create a single source of truth that accelerates innovation. With connected systems and reliable data, your enterprise can move faster, react sooner, and make decisions with confidence.

[H2] POWERFUL INTEGRATIONS:

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Connect to your most-used sources—including Excel, Visio, and CMDBs without complex or time-consuming migrations.

Import or map enterprise data directly from SharePoint, Google Sheets, and other business repositories.

Build a single, centralized source of truth using flexible data adapters, native integrations, and a powerful REST API.

Distribute and synchronize data effortlessly across platforms while keeping systems, ownership, lifecycle, and risk information consistently aligned.

[H2] Data Driven EA & Automations

Improve decision-making through enhanced data insights.
Automate critical assessments including cost roll-ups, business fit, technical fit, and security scoring.
Monitor key trends like performance improvements, cost reductions, and capability maturity over time.
Compare future-state scenarios with side-by-side architecture metrics to choose the most effective path forward.
Configure advanced calculations using prebuilt logic or intuitive no-code algorithms.

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[H2] Aligning Business and IT to Drive Efficiency, Agility & Innovation

[H3] Common Business Challenges:

Siloed Operations & disconnected business
High IT Costs & duplicated efforts
Slow Change Adaptation
Data Fragmentation
Regulatory Compliance Risks

[H3] Avolution’s Solution:

Enhanced Business & IT Alignment
Optimized Costs & eliminated redundancies
Faster decision-making & adaptability to change
Increased Standardization
Strengthened Governance & Compliance

[H2] Blueprints for Change: Proven EA Stories & Expert Masterclasses

Learn directly from the world’s leading enterprise architects through virtual masterclasses and thought-provoking presentations. Revisit the standout moments from our Enterprise Architecture Summit with instant access to all recordings.

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[H2] Rich Data Visualizations & Collaboration

Visualize your enterprise knowledge graph using dynamic graphs and diagrams and set up dashboards to tell data stories, and collaborate with teams across the business.

[H2] GRAPH VIEW & DYNAMIC DATA VISUALIZATIONS:

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Interactive Dashboards & Visualizations: users can engage with real‑time, self‑service dashboards featuring Gantt charts, treemaps, heatmaps, capability maps, ER diagrams, graph views, and more

Focused Insight & Filtering: Zoom into specific subsets of your architecture using smart filters by cost, risk, or other properties. See second‑order impacts across your visualizations and models.

Automated Reporting & Collaboration: Generate roadmaps, scorecards, timelines, and KPIs automatically. Share live query results, impact analysis directly from your dashboards.

Graph View & Relationship Analysis: Visualize your enterprise as a graph to understand dependencies, drill into details, and assess the impact of change. Customize with familiar EA icons and standards.

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[H2] Accessible Architecture

Set up dashboards to tell data stories, and collaborate with teams across the business
Visualize processes, cloud architectures, information and network architectures
Allow data owners to update their own data by editing online registers of assets, applications, tech and resources
Streamlined login with single sign-on (SSO) and AD integrations
Manage access and editing rights efficiently with user permissions

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[H2] Empowering Architects & Enterprises

with leading enterprise transformation for over 20 years.

[H3] Enterprise Architects

Build roadmaps, analyze scenarios & draw dynamic diagrams. Helping align strategies & deliver value.

[H3] Business Architects

Model capabilities, processes & technology to align strategic objectives & tactical demands.

[H3] Solution Architects

Draw & model directly & collaborate easily on technical vision & project implementation.

[H3] C-Suite & Stakeholders

Drill down into key trends & insights, helping make confident, time sensitive decisions.

[H3] Business Teams

Access personalized dashboards and edit in real-time, keeping data consistent & accurate.

“ABACUS provides a single source of truth. This powerful feature helps link everything together, saving time and maintenance.“

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Trusted by 1000+ EA and IT Professionals for over 20 years

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Case Studies

BANTRAB
BANTRAB establishes a robust EA practice with ABACUS that aligns the organization’s strategy, objectives, IT practices, and governance with its overarching business objectives.

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Case Studies

Bank Albilad
Bank Albilad repositioned its EA Office as a core enable of business outcomes.

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Case Studies

CERN
CERN leveraged ABACUS to establish a standardized approach to EA that enhanced collaboration and streamlined decision-making.

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Architecture Case Studies – Discover Why Leading Architects Choose ABACUS

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Bank Albilad
Bank Albilad repositioned its EA Office as a core enable of business outcomes.

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Saint-Gobain
Saint-Gobain wanted to transform their Enterprise Architecture practice by embedding architects into agile delivery teams, adopting ArchiMate as a shared modeling language.

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Arxada
Arxada wanted to rationalize its extensive application portfolio into a lean, cost-effective set of systems that fully support the company’s new corporate identity and business goals.

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CERN (Español)
CERN aprovechó ABACUS para establecer un enfoque estandarizado de arquitectura empresarial que mejoró la colaboración y agilizó la toma de decisiones.

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CERN
CERN leveraged ABACUS to establish a standardized approach to EA that enhanced collaboration and streamlined decision-making.

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BANTRAB
BANTRAB establishes a robust EA practice with ABACUS that aligns the organization’s strategy, objectives, IT practices, and governance with its overarching business objectives.

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BANTRAB (Español)
BANTRAB establece una sólida práctica de Arquitectura Empresarial (EA) con ABACUS que alinea la estrategia, los objetivos, las prácticas de TI y la gobernanza de la organización con sus objetivos comerciales generales.

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CLP Power
Using ABACUS, CLP were able to create a reusable architecture helping to align business & IT and streamline their digital transformation. Automation also helps save time and improve efficiency,

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Webinar: Modern Woodman
Enterprise Strategy & Project Execution with Balanced Scorecard

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Webinar: Network Rail
Using Enterprise Architecture for What If Analysis & Business Change

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Webinar: Suncorp
Navigating Large-Scale Application Management with Portfolio Models & Timeline Roadmaps

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Webinar: Lombard Odier
Managing Technical Debt Using Enterprise Architecture

[H2] Discover why 1000+ Enterprise Architects choose Avolution

Enjoy a live customized demo, get answers to your specific questions & goals, and discover how Avolution ABACUS can help accelerate your transformation journey to success. Including how to:
Create a single source of truth for faster, smarter decisions
Boost collaboration & visibility with real-time insights
Align your IT strategy with business goals & roadmaps
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Trusted by 1000+ EA and IT Professionals for over 20 years

Modern user-friendly, flexible and analytical tool to modernise your enterprises’ Enterprise Architecture.

– University of Edinburgh

For major infrastructure projects, using ABACUS enables us to take the complexity out of what is an interconnected system of systems.

– Arup