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Overview
When it comes down to it, business performance is ultimately determined by the effectiveness of management capability and decision-making, and to make great decisions your team needs the complete picture.
In a complex, multi-faceted organisation, operating in a continuously evolving market environment, getting a big picture view can be frustrating and elusive.
Capsifi’s enterprise architecture solutions focus on consolidating all your fragmented sources of disconnected business knowledge into a holistic, integrated whole. We help turn your business operating model into a core strategic asset that’s dynamic, data-driven, enduring, interactive, and engaging.
Align organisational teams around a common understanding of how business functions are supported by your technology portfolio, and manage the lifecycle of your digital assets with Capsifi’s enterprise architecture operating model.
Model for success
Maintain a comprehensive, integrated digital operating model of organisational capabilities and their alignment with people, process, information, and technology.
Visualise how everything works
Understand the intricacies of operational performance through an enduring, dynamic representation of how everything in your business works and how well it’s all performing.
Maximise technology
Align organisational teams around a common understanding of how business functions are supported by your technology portfolio, and manage the lifecycle of your digital assets.
Demystify business dynamics
Obtain immediate insights into confounding questions on the cause-and-effect dynamics of business performance.
Critical insights
Improve decision-making through comprehensive insights into how all the moving parts of your business are connected and work together.
Key features of Capsifi’s Architecture Solutions
Capsifi’s digital business architecture underpins effective management decision making by giving your skilled team the complete, integrated picture – something that was previously frustratingly elusive. Here are a lot of the key features and important benefits of our enterprise architecture solutions you can expect when you team up with Capsifi:

01 Transformation planning
Scenario analysis for budgeting, prioritising, and allocating resources for strategically aligned transformation initiatives.
02 Strategic roadmaps
Dynamic roadmap views that provide clear visibility of the alignment of planned initiatives with desired business outcomes.
03 Business motivation model
A framework for defining and communicating a strategic business plan, based on the BMM template of Desired Results, Courses of Action and Directives.
04 Value trees
Decompose business value dimensions and optimise the allocation of costs and investment opportunities.
05 Capability maps
Adopt a consistent, shared view of business capabilities and their inter-dependencies across the operating model.
06 Heatmaps
Configurable visual cues for tracking diverse, user-defined business measures at a glance, such as performance, maturity, and risk across many of the standard Capsifi visualisations.
07 Technology portfolio
A consolidated technology landscape of your enterprise systems, their functions, components, performance and alignment with the information, processes, and business capabilities they support.
08 Customer segments and personas
Leverage carefully considered customer personas to build targeted messaging and the personalised delivery of products & services to distinctly defined customer segments.
09 Organisation structure
A dynamic map for organising business units and territories that aligns people and teams into hierarchical, matrix, regional or agile ways of working.
10 Business requirements
Manage the specification and lifecycle of business needs as they guide the development of enhancements to business capabilities and/or technology systems.
11 Use cases
Create structured representations of the sequence of actions and steps between business actors and systems in the execution of common business transactions.
12 Conceptual, logical and physical data models
Ability to manage enterprise data and align the lifecycle of information across the operating model landscape of business capabilities, applications, processes, and people
13 Metadata management
Manage the specification and maintenance of data attributes, data types and the ongoing governance and constraints on controlled vocabularies.
14 Dictionaries and glossaries
Create, maintain, reconcile, and publish common global definitions of business terminology across an enterprise.
15 Entity relation diagrams
Visualise the logical schema of the classes and relations in an enterprise data model through the industry-standard template of entity relation diagrams.
16 Schema import/export
Ingest and publish logical data definitions as XML schemas (XSD) for sharing data models with external data sources.
17 Ontology editing
Support for the design and development of RDF-based ontologies for the semantic expression of enterprise classes and their properties (attributes and relations).
18 Dataflow diagrams
Visualise the flow of information within an organisation from the role-based inputs and outputs of stakeholders, through process steps, application functions and information repositories
19 Digital whiteboard
A free-form conceptual modelling canvas for collaborative workshopping of concept models and their properties.
20 Reference model mapping
Leverage pre-packaged reference models for operating model guidance and alignment with industry standards
21 API management
Coordinate the usage of a catalogue of enterprise API’s, including SWAGGER compliant import/export of interface definitions with mappings to enterprise data model schemas.