Your Landscape in Shape

Our Services

We are specialized in the management of business and IT landscapes. Our core competency is the handling of complex systems – in IT and beyond. We are setting sight on the big picture. As a trusted and independent partner we support our clients in creating transparency, reducing complexity, managing risks, and optimizing the business IT alignment. Our services are focused on three main areas:

Establishing EA Practices

Creating your core competencies

We put you in a position to develop target land­scapes based on a thorough analysis of your business model, to define adequate standards, and to govern projects accordingly. To achieve this, we implement practice-proven processes and tools.

Enterprise Architecture Office

Expanding your operating range

We extend your architec­ture team or project. Our experienced architects support you by taking over critical tasks like target architec­ture planning, transfor­mation project manage­ment or the completion of architec­ture reviews.

IT Governance / IT Strategy

Giving clear direction
to your IT

We support you in developing adequate governance mechanisms and assist you in strategic IT manage­ment tasks (e.g., IT strategy, IT portfolio manage­ment). We help to find structures that ensure the highest degree of alignment at optimal use of resources.

Our Products

In addition to our consulting services we offer a number of standardized products. These products bundle our experience on certain special topics, thus making them directly reusable for our clients.

EAM Benchmarking

Compare your EAM capability to that of other organi­zations from the community and learn how to improve continually.

Strategy to Principles

Our proven approach for managing the archi­tecture in line with business and IT strate­gy and enhancing architecture quality.

EAM Health Check

The standar­dized check-up for EA practi­ces. Detect weak­nesses easily and in a reliable way and derive appro­priate actions.

EA Communication Kit

The toolkit for effective EA commu­nication. Good practices for selling archi­tecture to different stakeholders.

Scape Complexity Manager

The toolbox for com­plexity manage­ment. Easily measure and syste­mati­cally manage business and IT complexity.

EAM Tool Selection

Our proven approach for finding the right tool to support your Enter­prise Archi­tecture function in an optimal way.

Academy

The personal skills and know-how of the individuals managing or dealing with business and IT architectures count among those factors that are of crucial importance for the overall success of an EA practice. Our academy provides a diverse set of courses that allows you to develop your skills systematically and keep your knowledge up to date. All instructors speak from experience and make practice orientation a key aspect of our courses. In fact, our training curriculum spans various areas related to architectural work, with courses at different levels of proficiency. The following public training courses in English language are currently open for booking:

TOGAF®

Learn about the methodology of the TOGAF® framework and apply it to practice effectively.

Business Architecture

Learn about the buil­ding blocks of busi­ness architecture management and ap­ply these to practice.

ArchiMate®

Learn the ArchiMate® language and how to apply it to practice effectively.

EA Communication

Learn how to commu­ni­cate EA artifacts to different stakeholders in an appropriate and memorable way.

Our Clients

When it comes to EA matters, we are the go-to partner for more than 40 organizations from across all industries including retail, media and entertainment, financial services, insurance, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, mechanical engineering, travel and tourism, energy and public services. Our clients include DAX companies, medium-sized companies, and the German Federal administration.

EA Consulting / EA Office

EAM Benchmarking

TOGAF Training

TOGAF Training

ArchiMate Training

ArchiMate Training

News

Publication APM

   |   by Larissa Sutter

Our colleague Dr. Lutz Kirchner has recently published a book chapter on Application Portfolio Management as lead author.

#applicationportfolio #enterprisearchitecture #entarch #bizarch #businessarchitecture #ITarchitecture

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EAMKON Speech

   |   by Larissa Sutter

We kicked off day 1 of the EA conference EAMKON with a speech by ITZBund's Arne Daniel Mutschler and our colleague Arash Mostashari. They spoke about how the #enterprisearchitecture unit of ITZBund transformed their organisational structure in the past year to address emerging strategic challenges.

#publicadministration #Scape #businessarchitecture #ITarchitecture #entarch #bizarch #transformation #organisationsentwicklung #strategie

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O-AA™ Standard Released

   |   by Larissa Sutter

The Open Group recently published the Open Agile Architecture™ Standard: "The O-AA approach is designed to help organizations architect in an Agile at scale environment. This includes techniques and practices for understanding the key elements of a successful Digital Transformation project, and the role Enterprise Architecture plays throughout."

You can download it here. The Open Group also offers a 90-day evaluation licence for non-members.

Information about the Open Agile Architecture standard can be found here: https://www.opengroup.org/AgileArchitecture

#enterprisearchitecture #agile #opengroup #digitaltransformation #designthinking #leanenterprise #lean #businessarchitecture #valuedriven #corporateidentity #culture #customerjourney #customerexperience #entarch #bizarch

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GAIA-X Technical Architecture

   |   by Larissa Sutter

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) has recently published a Technical Architecture Document describing in detail the architecture of the planned GAIA-X European Cloud Infrastructure and Data Ecosystem. You can download it here (in English): https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/EN/Publikationen/gaia-x-technical-architecture.html

We are following the development of GAIA-X with keen interest, and looking forward to see how it will work out in practice.

#digital #GAIAX #digitaltransformation #datadriven #cloud #clouds #europe #datasecurity #enterprisearchitecture #ITarchitecture #technicalarchitecture #technology #ecosystem

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EAMKON 2020

   |   by Dr. Christian Schmidt

Scape is sponsor and exhibitor of the EAMKON 2020 taking place from September 29th to October 1st in Stuttgart.

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EAM Benchmarking 2017

   |   by Dr. Christian Schmidt

Our upcoming EA Management Benchmarking will take place between April and July. Registration is now open.


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Accreditation Business Architecture Guild

   |   by Dr. Christian Schmidt

Scape is now an accredited training partner of the Business Architecture Guild (Guild Accredited Training Partner™ - GATP™).


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Open Group Conference Edinburgh 2015

   |   by Dr. Christian Schmidt

Scape is sponsor and exhibitor of the Open Group Conference Edinburgh taking place from October 19th to 22nd 2015 at the International Conference Centre Edinburgh.

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Book on Business Architecture Management

   |   by Dr. Christian Schmidt

Scape has published the book " at Springer.

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Frame Contract with the Federal Republic of Germany

   |   by Dr. Christian Schmidt

Together with its partners Capgemini (General Contractor), Sopra Steria, and Fraunhofer, Scape has won the frame contract on IT Architecture Manage­ment of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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Office Frankfurt
Westhafen Tower
Westhafenplatz 1
D-60327 Frankfurt / Main

Office Cologne
KölnTurm
Im Mediapark 8
D-50670 Köln

T +49. 69. 71 04 56 463
F +49. 69. 71 04 56 464

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www.scape-consulting.com

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