EA – it’s magic!

The leading IT research and advisory company, Gartner, recently made an analysis of the top EA vendors and again assessed each vendor’s entry into its magical EA quadrant. This time around, QPR was one of the shortlisted EA vendors, and we entered the playing field as a new entrant based on Gartner’s assessment of our completeness of vision and ability to execute against it.

So what exactly is our vision?

We believe that EA modeling and analysis alone are not enough to safeguard real business value. To avoid modeling for the sake of modeling, EA initiatives must be monitored and measured to ensure the delivery of a full development cycle and continuous improvement; and above all, EA initiatives must serve a purpose! This purpose can take the form of a strategic goal or a desired business outcome that steers EA initiatives toward a common goal. It all sounds like common sense, right? But in the middle of a diagram jungle and an army of stakeholders pulling you in different directions, it’s easy to lose focus. In our vision, EA brings a unique insight to your operations, which provides decision making support and therefore, allows senior management to execute strategy, reduce complexity and achieve operational excellence.

Now you know our vision, but what does the market think?

Through our daily interaction with many different people and organizations, we have noted that the perception of EA is shirting from an IT centric framework for infrastructure brains to being a tool for senior management to achieve business outcomes. Gartner, too, talks about putting “business objectives and outcomes first in developing EA signature-ready guidance and actions” and leveraging “EA to produce desired business outcomes and guide your enterprise from chaos to competitive advantage”.

With our vision and the shifting market demand in mind, we have developed a unique set of tools, templates and best practices to make our vision of EA come true. Our customers really value our offering for the ability to link strategy with operations and transformation execution packages, the simple and appealing look of the readily configured templates, the pragmatic best practices and  the many EA viewpoints provided to identify change and evaluate business impact.

For more information on our EA offering, visit http://www.qpr.com/QPR_EA-EBPA_offering.htm.

Is your organization using EA to deliver real business outcomes or still trailing behind with countless diagrams?

Virpi Nieminen

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