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Enterprise Architecture Solutions

The Essential Project

Composite Score
7.3 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10
Category
The Essential Project
7.3 /10

What is The Essential Project?

The Essential Enterprise Architecture tool helps you to understand how the people, functions, processes, IT applications, data, infrastructure, suppliers, and customers interact across the business. Essential enables you to spot opportunities to improve and to assess the impacts of planned changes to the operating model. Engage your CxOs and the business in your Enterprise Architecture through Essential's beautiful and interactive visualisations of your organisation.

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Awards & Recognition

The Essential Project won the following awards in the Enterprise Architecture category

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The Essential Project Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

83 Likeliness to Recommend

Down 1
Since last award

100 Plan to Renew

93 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Up 3
Since last award


Emotional Footprint Overview

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product Experience:
92%
Negotiation and Contract:
89%
Conflict Resolution:
97%
Strategy & Innovation:
96%
Service Experience:
94%

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+94 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love The Essential Project?

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0% Negative
5% Neutral
95% Positive

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Effective Service
  • Inspires Innovation
  • Respectful

Feature Ratings

Average 80

Performance Management

92

Document Management

92

PCI and EMV Compatible

88

Repository Management

84

Data Visualization GIS

82

Software Distribution

81

Collaboration

81

Analytics and Reporting

80

Risk and Fraud Assessment

75

Process Architecture

74

Project Management

68

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Ease of Customization

88

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

85

Ease of Implementation

85

Breadth of Features

85

Business Value Created

84

Ease of IT Administration

83

Vendor Support

82

Quality of Features

81

Ease of Data Integration

78

Availability and Quality of Training

76

Usability and Intuitiveness

72

The Essential Project Reviews

  • Role: Industry Specific Role
  • Industry: Other
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2022

Great EA Solution For Business

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Unique Features
  • Effective Service
  • Inspires Innovation

Gunther L.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Education
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2022

EAS semantic approach definitely changes the game!

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates The Essential Project from other similar products?

Even if it requires good EA skills to take in hand effectively, it enables to discuss any EA topics with any stakeholders. It so not appears as a specialist dedicated tool but as a community common good.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The ability to customize the portal following the extension of cartography plans and users maturity.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing comes to mind.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Thing big, start small! Product allows you to customize limits of user opened features (catalogs, views, objects, and so on). You can focus on priority business cases to convince key stakeholders whose will be your best representatives to deploy further EA.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Trustworthy
  • Unique Features
  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2022

Astonishingly broad and complete feature set

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

Pros

  • Transparent
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

Cons

  • Under Delivered