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Need to find $1m in savings quickly? Your enterprise data should be able to show you where it is. Essential AI turns your enterprise data into answers for real business questions - showing potential savings alongside the dependencies and risks behind them. Watch the video to see it in action. #EnterpriseArchitecture #Essential #AI

This week’s View Builder example shows how quickly you can turn architecture data in Essential into an interactive view. The view lets you explore which servers are deployed at different sites, which applications are related to those servers, and which business processes use those applications. Pick a site and you can see server counts, application flows, and switch between a 3D and flat view. The initial version, showing sites, servers, and a 3D toggle, took around 15 minutes to get working and it was created from a prompt rather than an image. We then spent another couple of hours refining the formatting and adding more features, including application mapping, business processes, and a slide-in detail panel. It’s a good example of how the Essential View Builder makes it easier to build tailored EA views on top of the Essential EA ontology, effectively creating your own EA tool for the questions that you need to answer. 15 minutes to a working version, then a couple of hours to polish and extend it. Download the DUP here: https://zurl.co/JcIcH #EssentialAI #Essential #EnterpriseArchitecture #EA

Ontology + Graph + Governance = Effective AI If you want AI to be effective in spotting opportunities in your enterprise then minimising hallucinations is absolutely crucial. A quality ontology provides meaning, a graph provides context and governance provides trust, and combined they create a foundation for effective enterprise architecture Most EA tools get this wrong. Without a governed ontology then AI can still invent relationships and misunderstand enterprise data, which is why the vendors tell you to double check their AI output. Essential’s MCP approach, on the other hand, does not make AI infallible but, importantly, the approach we have taken does make the underlying enterprise insights much more reliable. Read more here: https://zurl.co/xq6rF #ThoughtLeadership #Essential #AI #Governance

Stop using an EA tool. Start building YOUR EA tool. 🛠️ Every organisation is different, every stakeholder wants something unique. So why are we all looking at the same “out-of-the-box” views? Today, we’re launching the Essential View Builder MCP, removing the gap between what Enterprise Architects actually want and what their tools can deliver. This isn’t just a new feature – It’s the keys to the factory. And it builds on 130+ out-of-the-box views already in Essential. With Essential, you don’t just use the platform - you shape it. How it works: • Describe it – Tell the AI what you want to see • Mock it – Upload a sketch, mock-up, slide or HTML prototype • Transform it – Turn static ideas into live, interactive applications The AI does the heavy lifting, mapping your vision directly to the Essential meta-model, so you can turn ideas into working live, production-ready outputs within the day, not weeks and months. From CIO dashboards to risk heatmaps to investment roadmaps… It’s no longer our tool. It’s yours. Built by you. Powered by Essential. Driven by AI. Ready to build? Watch how it’s done 👇 It’s available here: https://zurl.co/FysT5 #EnterpriseArchitecture #AI #Innovation #Essential #BuildYourOwn

Off the shelf or build your own: what's your best option for an EA tool? It’s a question many architecture teams might ask. Off-the-shelf tools don’t always fit the realities of a specific organisation, so the idea of building something tailored can seem attractive. But designing and maintaining an enterprise architecture tool is a far bigger undertaking than most teams expect. Beyond the technology itself, there’s the challenge of defining the underlying meta-model, managing data, evolving the ontology, and ensuring the tool actually supports decision-making across the organisation. In our latest article we explore the trade-offs: when building your own EA tool might make sense, and why many teams underestimate the complexity involved: https://lnkd.in/dWT8shyk #EnterpriseArchitecture #EA