Dragon1 Inc. is a SaaS technology company that develops and markets innovative, cloud-based enterprise software (such as CRM or ERP) to help companies take control of the complexity in transition and transformation projects.
Our USP is Business Blueprinting. It focuses on accelerating the design and implementation of solutions through agile, data-driven enterprise architecture. Unlike traditional EA approaches, it provides real-time visualizations that directly support decision-making.
Business blueprinting consists of visually and dynamically connecting architecture layers, ranging from customers and markets to governance, processes, data, applications, and IT infrastructure aligned with the strategic information, into one comprehensive view. Supporting better decision-making, innovation, and alignment across the organization.
In this case, business blueprinting involves dynamically connecting five layers (i.e., customers and markets, governance, business processes, software applications, and IT infrastructure) within a blueprint for an insurance company.
We look holistically at organizations (or parts of) and work with enterprise architecture, principles, concepts, and visualizations. We visualize and measure all dependencies and impacts in EA products, including blueprints, landscapes, roadmaps, heatmaps, diagrams, graphs, charts, and dashboards. Often, these EA products are stored in an Atlas, allowing for easy maintenance.
We support organizations in realizing board-level ambitions, such as implementing AI systems, developing digital products and services, retraining employees, and building a sustainable, secure environment.
In this case, business blueprinting consists of two layers (i.e., business processes and applications) that are dynamically linked together in this blueprint for a health care company.
We sell globally, with our partners, software user licenses (PRO edition, BUSINESS edition, or ENTERPRISE edition) of the saas software collaboration platform. Individuals, projects, and architecture teams create interconnected ‘big pictures’ to provide leadership with insight and a strategic overview, enabling informed decision-making.
Dragon1 focuses on developing intelligent software solutions to solve complex issues. For example, where are the security risks in the IT infrastructure? Or, how can we obtain strategic alignment in our organization? Therefore, people visualize new business models, strategies, patterns, goals, visions, and more to gain insight and an overview of the desired and undesired cohesion and dependencies within or outside their organization.
An Architecture Center is often built within the Viewer containing all vital information, including policy, standards, markets, products, security, services, work processes, software applications, databases, and operational data flows. This includes the strategy blueprint, cybersecurity blueprint, IT infrastructure blueprint, and other related documents, as well as detailed capability maps, process-application landscapes and portfolios, technology roadmaps, and concept and principle diagrams.
As a software company, we focus on creating software that enhances comfort, ease of use, benefits, and control. Customers state that Dragon1 is the best EA/BPM/GRC/CyberSecurity software they have ever encountered and used.
Visit the demos to experience firsthand how easy it is for business professionals to create, steer, and manage their organization.
Our Vision
We, Dragon1 Inc., have a clear vision on five topics: people, organizations, knowledge, information, and thought leadership.
The five topics can and should be visualized at any time for better communication and collaboration.
People often have unused capabilities and competencies
Our vision on people is that they need, can, and should be better relocated in organizations using their capabilities and competencies optimally.
Organizations need to use people & information more effectively
Our vision on organizations is that they need to use people and information much more effectively to survive the competition. And that even goes for governmental organizations.
Knowledge needs to be made reusable
Our vision on knowledge is that knowledge present in people's heads and organizations is not as reusable as it should be. If made more reusable, knowledge can be used as a competitive edge.
Information can be of strategic impact
Our vision on information is that most organizations are unaware of how they can utilize information to their benefit. If used appropriately, information (presented visually, of course) will have a significant impact, as it supports every strategic decision.
Thought Leadership
Our vision is that the EA field must evolve through new ideas and perspectives. We cannot stand still, because the context in which people work and do their work is constantly changing. Mark Paauwe is a thought leader conducting scientific research into EA Principles and Enterprise Visualizations, to make organizations less complex and function more easily.
He also has an EA Tool GITHUB project. There, you can temporarily view some exciting and innovative new features.
Our History
In 2005, Dragon1 Inc. started as a consultancy and training organization. The way we have practiced enterprise architecture has always been different from the rest, with a strong analogy to building architecture. This new 'way of working' with Visual Enterprise Architecture, as we refer to it, has been utilized to develop the Dragon1 Open EA Method and Framework. At the beginning of 2013, it was internationally recognized as an open EA method.
This new way of thinking required a new wave of software support that existing tools could not supply. Dragon1, as a method, focuses on designing, conceptualizing, and visualizing views in diagrams, sketches, drawings, and photographic images. This led to the development of Dragon1 as a Platform, comprising the following product lines: Enterprise Architecture Tool, BPM Tool, ArchiMate Tool, UML Tool, and Togaf Tool are the first product lines in this product family. Next, the Project Management Tool and Tools for Visualizing Data are the second product lines. The Chatbot AI Answers and AI Checks and Digital Twin Software are the third product lines in this product family.
We continually research and develop software using Shark, our software development method, in close relationship with our customers. We call that Open Innovation. This has brought us to where we are now: a software company specializing in collecting and visualizing information for informed decision-making.
Our Mission
We enable EA practitioners to engage the business and CxOs. Business outcomes are the key focus of Enterprise Architecture. Business professionals, business language, and business visuals must achieve this.
Our Values
We are focused on people and organizations. People's values are shifting towards professionalism and the creation of knowledge. The organization's values are sustainability and information as key production factors.
Our Ambition
Over the next three years, our ambition is for Dragon1 to become the new standard for visualizing economic, environmental, and social issues at a strategic level, enabling the enterprise of the future, also known as Enterprise 4.0.