Enterprise architecture

Every EA box, ticked properly. Then the impact layer on top.

Application portfolio, capabilities, processes, diagrams, topology and technology lifecycle — a complete platform, not a thin one. Because the model is connected, it rolls straight up into cost-quantified blast radius and compliance evidence.

Dependra architecture diagram: component nodes wired by real dependency edges, with a detail panel showing kind, health, hosting and datasets
Diagrams drawn from the live model. Every node is a real asset.
The modelling toolkit

Not disconnected modules. One connected model.

Capabilities link to the applications that deliver them. Segments link to the capabilities they depend on. Value streams attach revenue, cost and SLA terms. The model you keep for governance answers “who is affected and what does it cost” — without a second tool.

01

Application portfolio

A system of record: lifecycle, criticality, ownership, health, data classification, cost, RTO/RPO and custom properties.

02

Business capabilities

Capability maps grouped into domains, linked to the applications that deliver them, with criticality and regulatory exposure.

03

Dependency mapping

Typed, directional dependencies with protocol, transport encryption and auth recorded on every edge.

04

Diagramming & canvas

Bring in a slice of the estate, lay it out, save the view. No whole-landscape spaghetti.

05

Whiteboarding

Free-form boards for workshops, living alongside the structured model.

06

Business processes

Processes and the capabilities they exercise, with a four-eyes approval trail.

07

Segments & actors

The audiences and markets that depend on each capability, so impact can be sliced by who is affected.

08

Revenue, cost & SLA

Value streams per capability or segment: revenue, cost, hourly impact, grace periods and penalties.

09

Hosting topology

Providers, areas and zones with VPN, peering and direct-connect — so blast radius is infrastructure-aware.

10

Tech radar & lifecycle

Daily end-of-life sync and version health, mapped to the components that run each technology.

11

Portfolio analysis (TIME)

Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, Eliminate — computed from live signals, not the loudest opinion.

12 Business+

Initiatives

Planned change sets with an impact preview before you commit.

Dependra portfolio analysis: applications on the TIME quadrant with a technical and functional fit breakdown
Rationalisation auto-computed from live signals, sliceable by capability.
Dependra business process modelling: versioned process steps with actors, applications, decision branches and an inspector panel
Business process modelling with a four-eyes approval trail.
Floor and ceiling

EA is the floor. Impact intelligence is the ceiling.

Everything on this page is table stakes, and Dependra does it properly — so it can genuinely replace an EA tool. But a complete, connected model is also the prerequisite for what most EA tools can't do: cost-quantified blast radius and compliance evidence.

Model once. The same data serves governance, impact analysis and audit.

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