Hi Architects/Digital Professionals,
I am a member of the IP Australia Architecture Practice.
I am keen to find out what software people are using to support their Architecture Practice?
We are looking to go to market for something that will help us with:
* Management of our infrastructure and software portfolio
* Estimate Total Cost of Ownership
* Map out Roadmaps for our business and technical components
* Assist in developing a 10 year Roadmap with estimated costings for licence, implementation and support
* Assist in providing these costings to our Finance area
* Support scenario based analysis, technical debt mitigation
* Possibly support the identification of staff skills required now and into the future
* Support TOGAF, Archimate
* Ingest configuration items from our ServiceNow CMDB
* Record any dependencies between configuration items (infrastructure and applications)
* Provide a repository for architectural artefacts - reference architectures, architectural patterns, architectural decisions, architectural diagrams for on-premise and AWS/Azure clouds
* Assist our Solution Architects with a good diagramming capability using common industry icons/diagrams for on-premise and AWS/Azure clouds.
* Provide a repository of solution designs, both graphical and written, to provide some ability for re-use.
* Assist with the development of architectural documents for presentation to an Architectural Working Group and Review Board
* Dashboard capabilities
* Integration with other products via APIs (e.g. Sharepoint, MS Teams)
* Preferably SaaS based
I know that is a rather large wish list, and probably unlikely to get one product to fulfil them all.
I would really appreciate hearing others experience.
Thankyou in advance.
Tony.
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Tony Mills
Platform Architect
IP Australia
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