How does Dependra compare to LeanIX or Ardoq?
Honestly: they are excellent. Mature, battle-tested products that moved the discipline forward. Dependra overlaps them heavily and can replace them in some cases. In others they are stronger, and we will tell you so.
Where the incumbents are genuinely stronger.
If your current EA tool keeps its data current and serves you well, there is no reason to switch. Good tools deserve loyalty.
What does the failure of a service nobody has looked at in four years actually cost?
That is the question Dependra was built for. Framed as what we do — not as anyone else's shortcoming.
Business-quantified blast radius
Traverses the live graph — auth, brokers, infrastructure — and rolls it up into who cares, cost per hour, which SLA and which regulatory clock.
Built for AI from day one
A first-class MCP server, scoped API keys and manifest imports let agents and CI keep the model current. That answers staleness structurally.
Compliance evidence engine
Designed for regulated industries: the model doubles as ISO 27001, NIS2, GDPR and DORA evidence, cited to specific articles.
Anti-lock-in export
Your entire authored landscape exports as open JSON, any time. Walk away whenever you want.
Strategy wired to the landscape
Key results compute from 104 landscape metrics and flag at-risk the moment the infrastructure underneath degrades.
Overlap, replace, or run alongside.
The incumbent keeps the catalogue and rationalisation programme. Dependra adds cost-quantified blast radius, live capability health and compliance evidence.
Dependra covers the full EA toolkit — portfolio, capabilities, processes, topology, TIME — so some teams consolidate on one model.
The honest answer depends on your estate. The fastest way to know is to model a slice of it.
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