What is Essential?
Essential (former The Essential Project) 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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83 Likeliness to Recommend
1
Since last award
100 Plan to Renew
89 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
5
Since last award
Emotional Footprint Overview
Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.
+90 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 Essential?
Pros
- Reliable
- Effective Service
- Respectful
- Client Friendly Policies
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
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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Feature Ratings
Architecture Governance
Collaboration
Centralized Architecture Repository
Analytics and Reporting
Business Process Modeling
Integration and Data Ingestion
Technology Portfolio Management
Application Portfolio Management
Business Capability Modeling
Architecture Modeling and Visualization
Impact and Dependency Analysis
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of Customization
Breadth of Features
Business Value Created
Ease of IT Administration
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Quality of Features
Ease of Implementation
Vendor Support
Usability and Intuitiveness
Availability and Quality of Training
Ease of Data Integration
Essential Reviews
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jun 2022
Ambitious and capable
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Client Friendly Policies
- Acts with Integrity
- Transparent
- Reliable
hajar l.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Chemicals
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Jun 2022
easy to use
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Essential from other similar products?
its practicality
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
its functionality, and the fact that everything is grouped together
What do you dislike most about this product?
sometimes I get lost in the directories, as the configuration of the interfaces is identical (but I'm getting used to it now)
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
its fluidity
Pros
- Client Friendly Policies
- Client's Interest First
- Friendly Negotiation
- Helps Innovate
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Retail
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jun 2022
Good product
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Altruistic
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
- Fair
