The Essential Project
What is The Essential Project?
The Essential Enterprise Architecture tool helps you to understand how the people, functions, processes, IT applications, data, infrastructure, suppliers, and customers interact across the business. Essential enables you to spot opportunities to improve and to assess the impacts of planned changes to the operating model. Engage your CxOs and the business in your Enterprise Architecture through Essential's beautiful and interactive visualisations of your organisation.
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84 Likeliness to Recommend
100 Plan to Renew
93 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+96 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love The Essential Project?
Pros
- Reliable
- Effective Service
- Inspires Innovation
- Respectful
How to read the Emotional Footprint
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While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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The Essential Project Reviews
Antaav B.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Aug 2025
A smart, reliable platform that brings clarity
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates The Essential Project from other similar products?
What truly sets The Essential Project apart is its remarkable adaptability. While many enterprise architecture tools impose rigid frameworks that force organizations to adjust their processes, this platform allows you to customize the meta-model to match your specific terminology, workflows, and business priorities. That level of flexibility not only saves time but also ensures that the tool reflects how your organization really operates, making adoption much smoother for all teams.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of The Essential Project is its intuitive visualization tools. The ability to convert complex data and system relationships into clear, interactive diagrams makes it much easier for both technical teams and business leaders to understand the architecture. This clarity improves communication and helps everyone make more informed decisions.
What do you dislike most about this product?
One aspect that can be challenging is the initial learning curve for new users. While the platform is ultimately intuitive, some of the more advanced features require time and practice to fully understand. This can be a little daunting for teams who are completely new to enterprise architecture software.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would recommend that anyone considering The Essential Project take advantage of the trial or demo version first. Exploring the software hands-on allows you to understand how its features align with your organization’s workflows and ensures a smoother adoption process.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Nov 2022
Great EA Solution For Business
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Unique Features
- Effective Service
- Inspires Innovation
Gunther L.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2022
EAS semantic approach definitely changes the game!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates The Essential Project from other similar products?
Even if it requires good EA skills to take in hand effectively, it enables to discuss any EA topics with any stakeholders. It so not appears as a specialist dedicated tool but as a community common good.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The ability to customize the portal following the extension of cartography plans and users maturity.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing comes to mind.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Thing big, start small! Product allows you to customize limits of user opened features (catalogs, views, objects, and so on). You can focus on priority business cases to convince key stakeholders whose will be your best representatives to deploy further EA.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features
