Enterprise architecture management

Enterprise architecture management (EAM) connects the business and technology needs of an organization into a cohesive and dynamic blueprint, providing key capabilities for managing the impact of business-driven change.

EAM helps maximize cost savings from consolidations, mergers and acquisitions, and other change initiatives, while minimizing associated risks. It also helps identify potential areas to improve operational efficiency.

Because EAM enables organizations to build connections from strategy to solution delivery, it can help realize optimal business results from technology solutions.

The IBM Rational® enterprise architecture management solution can help you:

• Make faster, better-informed strategic and tactical decisions
• Prioritize IT investments to support business goals
• Improve risk management of organizational transformation
• Turn strategy into execution and measure the results

Enterprise architecture management customer successes include:

• A large communications company: £10 million projected cost recovery by optimizing IT landscapes and processes using enterprise planning
• A global insurance company: $10.5 million savings in the first year by better aligning IT resources to business processes
• A retailer: $20 million savings by finding and avoiding risk in the implementation of a new merchandising system to hundreds of stores