People mostly believe that Microsoft® Visio® is just a simple drawing tool which is limited in scope when it comes to business process modeling and the complexities of business architecture. BPM-X® has enhanced Visio® by a smart repository approach so that the construction of a real business architecture is a breeze. As a result you can easily achieve a business and functional decomposition and structure your process diagrams into according to different levels of detail. In this way you may start from the overall enterprise perspective and end up on the implementation level with supporting IT systems and applications. And there are modeling languages like ArchiMate® and BPMN™ which help to visually express your enterprise and architecture using different viewpoints (diagrams).

Many organizations which run Oracle®, SAP® or other ERP systems follow the above slogan to lower the risk of project failures or high investments. In times of agile business this is counterproductive because innovation on IT side will get stuck. Nobody dares to make the necessary steps towards ERP improvements which would enable more agile business processes.All ERP systems are complex beasts in sense of configuration and customizing made. Mostly documentations are simply not available or not up-to-date. IT teams are overwhelmed with daily operational support of IT business like creating new users or writing reports.

Large organizations are really challenged with data governance and the need to deal with information silos. Specialized enterprise management applications from different domains like enterprise architecture (EA), business process management (BPM), governance risk and compliance (GRC), project portfolio management (PPM) or enterprise resource planning (ERP) do not make life easier when it comes down to leverage data from all these sources. Usually, the control and exchange of data fails by misinterpretation and weak implementations of interchange specification standards. So basically every organization has to reinvent the wheel by developing and customizing point-to-point interfaces.

Enterprise Architecture (EA) covers different disciplines such as Business Process Management (BPM), Enterprise Application Management (EAM), Application Portfolio Management (APM) and Service-oriented Architecture (SoA).