Enterprise Architecture

Powerful business management insights to evolve your role and organization

EA has a need to understand emerging technology opportunities and drive strategic business innovations

Continuous innovation using the latest business and technology ideas to create new revenue streams, services and experiences is a high priority for firms. Success demands a world-class enterprise architecture (EA) program, with EA and technology innovation leaders steering EA to a form of internal management consultancy.

Leadership Vision 2020: EA and Technology Innovation Leader. Actionable recommendations, tools and practices and consultative guidance lead to business-outcome-driven EA.
Gartner is helping us on different levels; from the strategy, high levels, down to the key projects and iniatives themselves.

Khalid Al-Mutawah

Director of Enterprise Architecture, Information & E-Government Authority, Government

How we address your top challenges

To survive and thrive in digital business management, EA leaders must proactively identify possible disruptive trends (technology, economic, societal, political, environmental), evaluate them to determine the impact on the business, and provide innovative solutions.

Build new business models to exploit emerging technologies

The mesh of interconnected people, devices, content and services is enabled by digital business platforms delivering a rich, intelligent set of services to support digital business. EA leaders are key enablers for this digital business.

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Plan a business-driven EA

EA leaders recognize the need to focus on business outcomes, which requires a structured approach to guide both project and product execution. Creating a stage plan will provide the structure to guide, mature and build a world-class EA capability.

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Provide the insight and analysis required by your C-suite

Leading organizations are transforming their business models to create new sources of revenue, services and experiences for customers. EA and technology innovation leaders must use a business architecture landscape to provide the insight and analysis required by senior leaders.

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New to your role?

Success as an enterprise architect depends on establishing the foundation for a sound approach from the beginning. This requires a firm grasp on best practices, avoiding worst practices, an understanding of how to deliver value, and clearly communicated goals and objectives.

The First 100 Days of an Enterprise Architect

Your organization will be counting on you to hit the ground running. Let Gartner provide the insights, peer advice and best practices you need.

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Understand the evolution of Enterprise Architecture

Today’s EA leaders must use the latest business and technology ideas to create new revenue streams, services and customer experiences.

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Be ready for what’s coming

The pressure is on for organizations to continually innovate to deliver new services and customer experiences, and EA leaders are leading this charge.

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Gartner Enterprise Architecture & Technology Innovation Summit

Link EA to business strategy and technology innovation

The race is on! Digital business makes a profound impact on how organizations develop and pursue new technology-enabled business models. Scale your EA role to deliver business strategy and technology innovation by attending Gartner Enterprise Architecture & Technology Innovation Summit. 

The summit provided the tools and technology to successfully build an EA practice that keeps business first.

Dinny Mathew

Architecture Director, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Stage Planning a Business-Outcome-Driven Enterprise Architecture

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Enterprise Architecture Primer for 2019

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Gartner can provide the right combination of tools, consultative guidance and actionable recommendations to help EA leaders achieve targeted business outcomes.