Enterprise Architecture Tool

Description

Iarnród Éireann Enterprise Architecture Program IÉ wishes to procure an Enterprise Architecture (EA) tool to assist in the process of developing and managing its Enterprise Architecture. At the same time IÉ is implementing major transformation programmes and will need to model the current, target, and multiple intermediate architectures. The EA program started in February 2021. It will be implemented centrally by the Information Systems Department led by the Lead Enterprise Architect. EA Tool Selection Objective The objective of this process is to identify the most appropriate software vendor for IÉ from which to select its enterprise architecture tool. The EA tool chosen will provide the functionality to meet the following key capabilities: • Modelling: Structuring relationships across entities, such as business strategies, objectives, goals, constraints, capabilities, personas, customer journeys, activities, processes, value streams, policies, decision models, metrics, applications, technologies, roadmaps, projects, and programs. • Repository: Single source of truth for the organisation with storage, categorisation, and versioning of objects and model primitives of various sorts, as well as the relationships between them and related business artifacts and views. • Structuring of information: Organising enterprise architecture artifacts meaningfully through the supplied metamodel, architecture frameworks and repository, as well as the ability to customise these structures. • Information presentation: Including a variety of different methods to meet stakeholder needs, ease of use and publishing capabilities. Displays and illustrations in the form of dashboards, heat maps, models, and scenarios, etc, to enable key stakeholders to understand and assess the impacts associated with decisions and proposed solutions. • Publication: Focus on enabling wide consumption of the data contained within the tool, across the enterprise, and beyond. Capture comments and feed