The Business Case for Dragon1

The Need to Move Forward With Your Business

Soon, all companies must be equipped with adaptable business models, strategy maps, and process and application architecture landscapes to stay competitive, innovate, and be future-proof.

Today, start-ups and fast-moving competitors are rising, and you must ensure that you will not be outclassed, outperformed, or put out of business.

With interactive digital overviews of your adaptable business's current and future state, you can always respond quickly to changes in and outside your company. This is exactly what Dragon1 provides you with.

Download the white paper here: Dragon1 Business Case [PDF]

In this whitepaper, we first discuss how visualizing your business helps to control change and transformation. Then, we demonstrate how the Dragon1 Enterprise Architecture Method offers a unified approach for both the waterfall and agile worlds. Finally, we demonstrate how the Dragon1 SaaS platform for Visual Enterprise Architecture offers an integrated solution that supports you in all aspects of strategy, architecture, and transformation work. And it pays off.

Do you want to move forward with your company? Then, read this white paper.

Why Visualize Your Business Using Enterprise Architecture?

DEAL WITH CHANGE

Every company is confronted with changes and transformations. They are happening and taking place every day. New technology, new customer demands, and enforced rules and regulations require companies to respond rapidly with innovation. Business Processes and Information Systems must be replaced, updated, and integrated. To make sure that the company's processes and systems do not form one big knot and they do not come to a standstill, companies make use of Enterprise Architecture.

CONTROL COMPLEXITY

Complexity is also rapidly increasing: every company stores more and more data and wants to be smarter in learning from and using that data. Additionally, the company is becoming increasingly digital and virtual. Everything has to be very flexible. For instance, yesterday’s mass products are today's unique products driven by customer demand. To be able to deal with the complexity, control it, and maybe even reduce it, companies make use of Enterprise Architecture.

ENABLE ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION

Enterprise Architecture is the area that strives to support and enable strategic planning of business systems and enterprise transformation. With enterprise architecture, the transformation within the company occurs in a controlled manner. This is because enterprise-wide solutions need to be aligned with the strategy and important standards, policies, and dependencies of other systems and processes.

STEER WITH DASHBOARDS

With Enterprise Architecture, every stakeholder of a transformation gets visualizations about their concerns, with views of the transformation. They can make the necessary meaningful decisions on time and guide the project execution of this transformation. The participants in the projects receive specific visualizations that they use to design, build, and implement enterprise-wide solutions to address their concerns.

Why use the Dragon1 Enterprise Architecture Method?

STRATEGIC LEVEL ARCHITECTING

Dragon1 is both an open Enterprise Architecture Method and a SaaS platform for Visual Enterprise Architecture (Dragon1, The Business Visualizer).

If a company decides to work with Enterprise Architecture, Dragon1 supports and enables working with Enterprise Architecture strategically and visually.

Dragon1 ensures that architects use a company's strategies and business models as the context for their architectural design (concepts, principles, standards, building blocks, and patterns). Every architecture and enterprise-wide solution designed, built, and implemented in this manner will always be aligned with all entities within the organization.

CONTINUOUS STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT

Dragon1 also ensures that every stakeholder is always involved at the right time for an initiative, transformation, program, or project. At every stage, for different stakeholders, Dragon1 defines the types of views on matters and visualizations (diagrams) that stakeholders need to produce. Stakeholders understand the visualization they are looking at and use it to support their decision-making process.

NEW INSIGHTS AND INNOVATIVE APPROACH

Dragon1, as a method, describes a new approach to looking at enterprises because it uses the newest insights and theories on architecture principles. Where the current mainstream frameworks and modeling languages for enterprise architecture focus on the logical and physical level of abstraction, Dragon1 also focuses on the conceptual level of architecture. Dragon1 is the only architecture method that consistently defines all its core terms, featuring clear distinctions, no circular reasoning, the use of terms in definitions that are also defined, and no gaps between terms. For instance, Architecture is a total concept of a system or a structure. The architecture principle is the enforced way concepts (made part of an architecture) work and produce results. A concept is defined as an abstract system consisting of collaborating elements.

PRACTICAL HANDS-ON APPROACH

Dragon1, as an open EA Method, with its checklist, templates, reference models, glossary, and processes, ensures you can work with Enterprise Architecture successfully and practically. Without any overhead and focus on what is necessary to enable and support enterprise transformation, every project in your company will be a success.

From now on, it is possible to view, follow, and upload your content in the channels with the various Diagrams, in which this architecture knowledge is discussed with other business professionals.