Name: Ardoq Live Demo Series: Crucial Enterprise Architecture Challenges
Start: 2024-07-24T16:00:00Z
End: 2024-07-24T16:00:28.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Ardoq is a global SaaS company recognized by Gartner as a leading provider of  Enterprise Architecture (EA) tools.

Ardoq is a cloud data platform that goes far beyond standard software, built with powerful graph technology and enhanced by dynamic visualizations. It’s designed to help organizations understand the relationships between people, processes, technology, and data and use this knowledge to reach their goals and strategic objectives.

A platform with almost limitless flexibility, a future-proof solution that will evolve as organizational requirements inevitably change with time. It includes out-of-the-box solutions that enable customers to quickly realize value from their EA practice. 

Enhance business agility by understanding how processes flow through IT and identifying changes that maximize impact.  During this session, you'll discover how lightweight, AI-powered modeling connects operations with IT capabilities, addressing risks and technical debt while aligning processes with strategic goals. Learn how leading organizations leverage operational data and architecture insights for DTO-based decisions, breaking silos and maintaining vendor independence. Discover how Ardoq enables transformation, reducing complexity and driving scalable, smarter outcomes without unnecessary overhead.  Jumpstart your process transformation today.

Bridge Business and IT for Smarter Process Transformation

Transform strategy from aspiration to measurable business outcomes through seamless execution. During this session, you'll learn powerful techniques to align objectives, initiatives, and capabilities across your organization—turning complexity into coordinated action. Discover how leading organizations are using data-driven insights to prioritize initiatives, track progress in real-time, and adapt quickly to changing market conditions, ensuring strategy stays dynamic and relevant. See how Ardoq enables organizations to move beyond static plans and achieve faster, more predictable results by connecting strategy to execution with real-time visibility. Jumpstart your strategy execution transformation today.

Turn Strategy into Results with Seamless Execution

Transform technical debt from a burden into a catalyst for modernization and innovation. During this session, you'll learn powerful techniques to identify, classify, and measure debt impact using proven models like SQALE—turning hidden risks into visible opportunities. Discover how leading organizations are mastering the art of strategic debt management, making data-driven decisions about when to accept debt and when to address it, creating the perfect balance between costs, risks, and growth opportunities. See how Ardoq's data-driven approach helps prioritize remediation, cut risks, and build strong business cases, empowering you to optimize your IT landscape and reinvest in innovation. Jumpstart your technical debt optimization today.

Turn Risk into Advantage by Controlling Technical Debt

Unlock trapped IT budget and tackle complexity through strategic application portfolio optimization. During this session, you'll learn proven techniques to identify redundant, costly, and low-value applications that are draining your resources today. Discover how leading organizations are leveraging Ardoq's methodologies and the Gartner TIME model to reduce costs by millions, streamline operations, and create the financial runway for AI adoption. Join us to see how smart application rationalization isn't just about cost-cutting—it's your pathway to accelerated innovation and measurable transformation results. Jumpstart your transformation journey today.

Find Budget for AI Initiatives with Application Portfolio Management (APM)

Transform integration complexity into a strategic advantage for your AI journey. During this session, you'll learn essential techniques to map critical data flows, identify powerful integration patterns, and establish robust compliance frameworks—creating the foundation for AI-ready systems. Discover how leading organizations are using Ardoq to reduce risks, unlock hidden data opportunities, and accelerate AI initiatives through effective integration management. Join us to see how turning integration chaos into controlled clarity isn't just about governance—it's your gateway to responsible AI innovation. Jumpstart your AI-ready architecture today.

Lay the Foundation for AI Success with Application Integration Management

Join James Tomkins, Senior Enterprise Architect, and Gard Havelin, VP of Solution Consulting, as they demonstrate how Ardoq Quick Start can streamline your IT landscape, reduce costs, and deliver rapid results.

On the Demo-nar, you’ll learn how to quickly:

- Gain Visibility: Get a complete view of your IT systems and know exactly where your budget is going.
- Cut Costs: Remove unnecessary apps and improve efficiency with real-time insights.
- Achieve Fast Results: Get measurable ROI in just 30 days with pre-configured templates and streamlined workflows.

From IT Complexity to Clarity in Just 30 Days: Save Up to 20% of IT Spend With Ardoq Quick Start

Join us for a fireside chat with Heidi Mattison, CTO of Cabinetworks Group, and Mark Holt, Director of Technology at Slalom Consulting as they share the journey of transforming a century-old cabinetry business into a modern, efficient, and customer-focused company. 

Cabinetworks, America's largest privately held cabinet manufacturer, faced the challenge of integrating multiple acquisitions whilst streamlining operations across multiple plants, applications and ERP systems.  

Heidi and Mark will discuss how Cabinetworks’ technology strategy enabled Cabinetworks to build a differentiated customer experience in a highly competitive industry. Heidi and Mark will discuss: 

-  Simplifying the IT architecture and turning 400 data points and scattered information into a single source of truth to improve transparency and decision-making.
- Implementing enterprise architecture (EA) from scratch and making it central to Cabinetworks' operations.
-  How Slalom leveraged Ardoq to help Cabinetworks Group accelerate the establishment of Enterprise Architecture best practices and drive business insights.
-  Engaging stakeholders with visual and interactive tools, resulting in faster decision-making and increased efficiency.

This session will provide CIOs, IT & EA leaders with practical insights into using EA for business transformation, improving IT efficiency, and fostering a culture of innovation.

Key Takeaways:
- Strategies for implementing the right technology and enterprise architecture strategy  to drive business goals.
- Techniques for engaging stakeholders and gaining organizational support across the business and C-suite.
- Examples of improving IT efficiency and decision-making.
- Lessons from transforming legacy operations into a cohesive, modern enterprise.

How Cabinetworks' CTO Pioneered a Differentiated Customer Experience & Enhanced IT Efficiency with EA

Understand how Ardoq will differentiate against all the competition in the market, allowing your organization to:

• Connect people, technologies, and applications
• Get quick time to value
• Engage experts
• Integrate
• Build your model
• Get data-driven insights

Discover how New Enterprise Architecture can add value to your change initiative. Get in touch with an Ardoq specialist to learn more, follow the link in the 'Attachments' tab above.

How Ardoq Works

In this insightful video, learn how Ardoq's core principles of automation, collaboration, and data-driven flexibility can revolutionize your onboarding process. Uncover strategies to expedite your journey toward a quick return on investment while preserving the potential for future growth and development.

This Is Ardoq

IT complexity is a top challenge in many organizations. More than one application can be doing the same thing, draining resources, causing issues, or not adding any value at all. This increases IT costs, cuts into budgets, and prevents IT from delivering modern services that meet business needs.

Join this webinar and learn the  5 essential steps for mastering application rationalization.

Based on hundreds of projects with CIOs, IT Leaders, Enterprise Architects and Digital Transformation teams in global organizations, we will share practical and proven techniques to help you:

- Get a firm grip on sprawling IT estates
- Run effective application assessments and identify overlap or legacy applications
- Reduce the number of applications and free up resources for driving change and 
  transformation
- Discover how easy and repeatable application rationalization can be.
- Learn how to quickly and efficiently optimize your IT Estate.

Register for the webinar now to make application rationalization simple and repeatable.  Optimizing your IT Estate doesn’t have to be a long and tedious process.

5 Steps to Optimizing Your IT Estate and Accelerating Modernization

Danny Attias, Chief Digital & Information Officer at London Business School, topped CIO UK's CIO 100, a list of the most transformational and disruptive CIOs in and from the UK. Learn about his perspectives on:

- purpose-driven leadership in IT
- empowering teams to transform organizations
- aligning business and IT, creating trust with key stakeholders

Building a World-Class Technology Team

Robert Pröber, Manager Technology Strategy & Transformation at Deloitte talks about how he utilized his 16+ years of experience in architecting IT solutions to enable a successful Digital Transformation. In this episode, Robert shares the most common mistakes when connecting Enterprise Architecture to the whole business strategy.

Using Enterprise Architecture to Successfully Align Strategy and Execution

Sanjiv Joseph Chinnappan, Partner and Executive Director at ZS explains how to utilize new trends emerging in architecture and demonstrate the value of your work.

Architecture Achieving Business & IT Alignment

Hear insights on strategy execution with stronger collaboration and quicker response times.

Beyond Cost Savings - Prioritizing Resources to Drive Highest Value

Join experts Mike Faga, Ian Stendera, and Laurie Kelly as they discuss the transformative power of modern architecture in shaping your organization's future. Discover the value it can unlock for your business and gain insights into building a more strategic and innovative architectural approach.

Building a Modern Enterprise Architecture with a Focus on Strategy & Innovation

In this episode, Enrique Fernandez-Pino, a CIO with over 30 years of experience in innovation, strategy development, digital re-design, and large-scale change and program management, shares his insights on: 

- Ways to remove complexity
- Accelerate change
- Boost benefits to the business from the change process

Change Made Simple

Gideon Slifkin, long-time Enterprise Architect, first-time LinkedIn influencer, discusses the state of Enterprise Architecture in the US and around the world, touching on: 

- Why does EA get a bad reputation in some circles?
- What are some deadly mistakes an EA team can make?
- Is EA truly dead, and if it is, who’s to blame

Is Enterprise Architecture Dead?

Join us in the second episode of our Deminar as we dive deeper into crucial enterprise architecture challenges.

Key takeaways:
Optimize Operational Efficiency
Ensure Governance & Compliance
Manage Cyber & Technology Risk

Ardoq Live Demo Series: Crucial Enterprise Architecture Challenges

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