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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83 Likeliness to Recommend
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Since last award
100 Plan to Renew
89 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
5
Since last award
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+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 The Essential Project?
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
The Essential Project Reviews
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Government
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Jun 2022
Easy to use, very flexible and great value
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
Chris G.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Banking
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2022
Easy to get started and show value
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates The Essential Project from other similar products?
The open source roots and history of how the product was initially developed differentiate it from other similar products. It came from experience working with clients and through a pragmatic architecture lens of how to solve problems and answer common questions that arise universally.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of this product is how it is centered on collecting information and making relationships between that info within the repository. This information centered approach allows you to leverage (or create) views which support a number of use cases (research, analysis, management reporting.. and more).
What do you dislike most about this product?
Navigating the metadata repository and the nuanced class terminology can take some time to get familiar with. This has been lessened in the past couple of years through easier to use editor pages which have been (and continue to be) introduced to the product.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Remember it's not about the tool, it's about the business and technology related processes as well as what supporting information do you have in existing sources and the quality or gaps that you may need to address. Start with a couple of specific use cases but keep in mind what else you will want to get to next, don't try to load it full of information just because you can. But if you can leverage what you have and clean up at sources along the way, then it will be easier to pull that in along with the relationships so that you can focus on the output - rather than focus on data entry and ongoing manual maintenance within the EA repository.
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Effective Service
- Caring
- Client Friendly Policies
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2022
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Respectful
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
