What no single tool does today
EA platforms model applications. Process tools model workflows. Diagramming tools draw pictures. Dependra connects the complete chain — infrastructure through cost-quantified customer impact — in one traversable graph, and reads that same model back as compliance evidence and live health dashboards. Category descriptions below are generic and deliberately unnamed; for a named, praise-forward comparison, see how Dependra compares to LeanIX or Ardoq.
What no single tool does today.
EA platforms model applications. Process tools model workflows. Dependra connects the complete chain — infrastructure through customer impact — in one traversable graph.
| Capability |
Dependra
|
EA Platforms | Process Modelers | Diagramming Tools |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full-chain blast radius |
Infra → Component → App → Process → Capability → Audience → Revenue
|
Application-level only | Not available | Not available |
| Business process modelling |
Versioned workflows with approvals, actor assignment, blast radius integration
|
Separate module or add-on | Core strength | Manual diagrams |
| Business impact intelligence |
Capabilities and audiences, with per-commercial-segment revenue and SLA targets
|
Partial linking | Not available | Not available |
| Dependency granularity |
Component-level with typed, weighted, directional edges
|
Application-level only | Process steps only | Manual drawing |
| Technology radar |
Automatic EOL data, governance recommendations, version tracking
|
Manual tracking | Not available | Not available |
| Portfolio analysis (TIME) |
Auto-computed from live signals, sliceable by capability
|
Survey-driven | Not available | Not available |
| Event-driven flow modelling |
Solace, Kafka, ServiceBus, SNS, SQS, EventBridge — brokers, topics, queues with visualized diagrams
|
Not available | Not available | Manual diagrams |
| Infrastructure modelling |
Hosting providers, zones, and connectivity via Firewalls, Gateways, VPN tunnels and peering with infrastructure-aware blast radius
|
Limited | Not available | Manual diagrams |
| Compliance evidence |
Protocol, encryption, auth, protections per dependency — gap dashboards
|
Manual documentation | Not available | Not available |
| API and AI agent integration |
Full REST API with upsert + MCP server for AI agents
|
API available | Varies | Limited or none |
| Time to value |
Self-service, hours to days
|
Weeks of professional services | Days to weeks | Hours (no data model) |
| OKRs linked to live infrastructure health |
Objectives and key results sit in the same graph as components; at-risk is computed from live health, not a dropdown
|
Partial (strategy module exists, disconnected from live health) | Not available | Not available |
| Auto-computed key results from the landscape model |
104 built-in landscape metrics continuously refresh key result values — incident frequency, SLA exposure, revenue at risk, IT spend
|
Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Goal-to-component traceability (which component threatens which objective) |
Full traversal: Objective → KR → Initiative → scoped Components → live health and blast radius
|
Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Pricing |
Published, from €1,500/mo
|
"Contact sales" | Per-user, opaque | Low cost, limited value |
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