Ardoq Use Cases Guides

Choose the perfect use case for your organization from this collection of best practices for the common usage of Ardoq.

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41 articles in this collection
Written by Ian, Eric Kloster, Pia Therese Roland and 8 others

Administrating Use Case Modules

What Are Ardoq’s Use Case Guides and Who Can Use Them?

Overview of the Use Case Guides, what they are comprised of, and how they fit into your existing Ardoq organization and functionality

Written by Jon Scott
Updated over a week ago

Getting Started With Use Case Guides

Deploy and work with the Ardoq Use Case Guides to solve specific objectives or achieve a specific outcome.

Written by Jon Scott
Updated over a week ago

How to Document Your Organization's Architecture and Realize Value Quickly

See value faster by learning how to segment and prioritize your data for a faster documentation process

Written by Jon Scott
Updated over a week ago

Getting and Measuring Value From Ardoq

Capture data in Ardoq. Get an introduction to metrics, what they are, their value and how to use them.

Written by James Down
Updated over a week ago

Governance Best Practice in Ardoq

See how you can use Ardoq to enable effective IT processes that promote your organizations's strategies.

Written by Pia Therese Roland
Updated over a week ago

Application Lifecycle Management

Application Lifecycle Management Metamodel

Overview of the Application Lifecycle Management metamodel and descriptions and details around component, field and references and patterns.

Written by Edward Granger
Updated over a week ago

Getting Started with Application Lifecycle Management

Increase security, reduce risk, and maximize cost savings by monitoring the different phases applications go through during their lifetime.

Written by Jacqueline S.
Updated over a week ago

Advanced Lifecycle Management

Check out this quick guide on how to introduce Lifecycle Management to any part of your architecture by using a common set of fields.

Written by Ian
Updated over a week ago

Application Hosting

Getting Started with Application Hosting

Learn how to connect your application portfolio to your IT infrastructure in Ardoq to understand the impact of change better.

Written by Jon Scott
Updated over a week ago

Application Hosting Metamodel

Document Application Hosting in Ardoq to understand and increase the overall quality of IT landscape.

Written by Jon Scott
Updated over a week ago

Application Integration Management

Application Integration Management Metamodel

A detailed dive into the components, references and fields the make up the metamodel for the Application Integration Management use case.

Written by Jon Scott
Updated over a week ago

Application Integration Management: Purpose, Scope, & Rationale

Discover how to support business to IT transparency and governance, and how to drive significant change.

Written by Jason Baragry
Updated over a week ago

Getting Started With Application Integration Management

Understand how your applications are interconnected and make informed decisions when planning for change

Written by Jacqueline S.
Updated over a week ago

Mapping an Integration Landscape

Use Ardoq surveys to create documentation that is easy to maintain and that will provide answers to business-critical questions.

Written by Eric Kloster
Updated over a week ago

Application Modernization & Rationalization

An Introduction to Application Rationalization

Get an overview of application rationalization, what it is, how it drives value, considerations, and potential implementation pitfalls.

Written by James Down
Updated over a week ago

Getting Started with Application Rationalization

Learn what Application Rationalization is, what it entails, and why it is important for your organization.

Written by Jacqueline S.
Updated over a week ago

Business & Technical Capability Management

What Are Technical Capabilities?

A brief description explaining Technical Capabilities: what they are, how they are categorized, what are their benefits

Written by James Down
Updated over a week ago

What are Business Capabilities?

A brief description explaining Business Capabilities: what they are, how they are categorized, what are their benefits

Written by James Down
Updated over a week ago

Application Rationalization Metamodel

Application Rationalization enables organizations to optimize their application portfolio and IT spend. See how this is implemented in Ardoq

Written by Sean Gibson
Updated over a week ago

Getting Started with Business Capability Modeling

Ardoq's out-of-the-box module is configured to reflect our best practices in modeling business capabilities. Use this guide to get started.

Written by Ian
Updated over a week ago

Business Capability Metamodel

Read an introduction to the concepts included in the out-of-the-box meta-model for Business Capability Modeling

Written by Ian
Updated over a week ago

Assessing Business Capability Market Differentiation and Maturity

Learn which questions to ask as you build your market differentiation into the business capability model.

Written by Jon Scott
Updated over a week ago

Business and Technical Capabilities

Create a logical model of your business or IT in order to understand what your organization needs to succeed.

Written by Ian
Updated over a week ago

Identifying Capability Experts and Anchoring the Business Capability Model

Gain insight on how to establish, socialize and anchor models; understand the process of business capability modeling.

Written by Jon Scott
Updated over a week ago

Introduction to Capability Maturity

Capability Maturity - what is it and how is it used

Written by James Down
Updated over a week ago

Data Lineage

Getting started with Data Lineage

Written by James Down
Updated over a week ago

Data Lineage Primer

An introduction to Data Lineage

Written by James Down
Updated over a week ago

Data Lineage Metamodel, Scope, and Rationale

Read this article for in-depth insight into Ardoq’s data lineage use case. Learn about why you should do data lineage and how to get started

Written by Rasmus Valther Jensen
Updated over a week ago

Infrastructure Technology Management

Getting Started With IT Lifecycle Management

Learn how to manage your IT infrastructure lifecycle in Ardoq to increase security, minimize downtime, and reduce costs.

Written by Jacqueline S.
Updated over a week ago

Infrastructure Technology Lifecycle Management Metamodel

A breakdown and definition of the various components, references and fields in the ITLM journey metamodel

Written by Jon Scott
Updated over a week ago

IT Cost Management

IT Cost Management Metamodel

Structure your data to design and implement a cost management model with aggregations, dataflows, and information gathering.

Written by Rasmus Valther Jensen
Updated over a week ago

Take Control of Your Costs Using Ardoq

Learn how you can achieve strategic cost management through data insights gained with Enterprise Architecture tools.

Written by Edward Granger
Updated over a week ago

Modeling In Ardoq

Business Process and Model Notation Workspace Template (BPMN)

With Ardoq’s Business Process and Model Notation (BPMN) workspace template, you can effectively map business processes to living data.

Written by Hardik Shah
Updated over a week ago

Business Architecture Guild Metamodel in Ardoq

The Business Architecture Guild is a widely used body of knowledge for business architecture. Find out how it is implemented in Ardoq.

Written by Rasmus Valther Jensen
Updated over a week ago

Modeling People, Roles, and Relationships in Ardoq

Get an overview of how to model people, roles, and relationships, and find out how to import that data into Ardoq.

Written by Edward Granger
Updated over a week ago

Organizational Modeling Metamodel

Connect organizational components with the other use cases to capture who owns, maintains, and delivers change.

Written by Sean Gibson
Updated over a week ago

Organizational Modeling Patterns

Adapt or extend different patterns to your own needs, and apply organizational modeling to common scenarios.

Written by Sean Gibson
Updated over a week ago

Seven Principles for Creating a Great Enterprise Architecture Metamodel

Learn the principles for creating a successful metamodel, developed from industry standards, our experience, and best practices.

Written by Edward Granger
Updated over a week ago

Should You Model Using Hierarchies or References?

Set up Modeling best practices in Ardoq to determine how people will navigate, query, and understand your model

Written by Edward Granger
Updated over a week ago

Strategic Planning and Execution

Strategic Planning and Execution: Best Practice Module Guide

This is a guide to using our best practice module for Strategic Planning and Execution. Here's an overview of how to get started.

Written by Ian
Updated over a week ago

Strategic Planning and Execution: Meta Model

The details you need to know about the configuration of the meta model for the best practice module for Strategic Planning and Execution.

Written by Ian
Updated over a week ago