Abacus

Abacus is an enterprise architecture and strategy tool made by Avolution. It lets teams model their organisation, plan change and report on the results.

Main features

• Architecture modelling: diagrams and models kept in sync, with ready-made AWS and Azure icon sets.
• Roadmaps and timelines: plans for projects, technology lifecycles, risk initiatives and larger transformations.
• Business capability mapping: links capabilities to applications, processes and technology for a connected view.
• Standards and templates: TOGAF, BizBok and PCF frameworks come built in, alongside hundreds of configurable templates.
• Analysis and dashboards: scenario comparison, dependency analysis and visual reports to spot gaps and redundancies.

Who it works with

Organisations of different sizes that run enterprise architecture programmes, from small starts to large scaling efforts.

Key facts

• Vendor: Avolution
• Deployment: on premise or cloud-based
• Customers: used by over 3000 organisations worldwide, according to the stored profile
• Analyst recognition: named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for EA tools for nine consecutive years, as the vendor states