EA Tool Types & Licensing

EA Tool Types

Modelling Type

These types of tools predominantly focus on modelling everything and provided lot of re-engineering options, example Sparx Enterprise Architect, it is typically thick client desktop tools

Workbench Type

It focuses on collaboration and platform approach. Where data quality and workflow approvals, collection of data using built-in agonistic surveys are the key elements. Example, LeanIX, it is typically a web only solution.

Dashboards Type

It takes the portal approach where the enterprise architecture, solution architecture, data architecture and technology architectures take the precedence in arriving reports provided by the product mostly out of the box, with a flexibility to create custom dashboards/reports. Example, Essential Cloud, it is a web solution with a lot of out of the box portals, dashboards and reports.

Hybrid Type

This has two elements one is a modeller which is ideally a thick client which is primarily used by architects for designing and it has capabilities like taking in files of type Visio, Archimate formats and a portal which shows the analytics of the data. Examples, Abacus, Orbus IServer.

 

 

EA Tools Licensing

EA Tools follow commonly three types of licensing patterns, for arriving base price

•  Repository based

This type of tools provides 2 or 3 repositories which can house unlimited number of applications and unlimited number of users, most of the time fair usage policy applicable.

•   Applications Count based

They charge per application x base cost, for example if there are only 200 applications in your organization, they charge $500 X 200 = base price

•    User Count based

They charge for different users base for example Business Users, Architects, Management Users (Read only), for example they charge 20 Business Users/Architects and 100 read only users.