Coensys, Inc.

Enterprise Architecture Modeling with Anylogic 

Your enterprise is dynamic, always changing in response to competitors moves, changing customer tastes, new regulations, new technologies, supplier breakdowns, and changing economic conditions. Many of these changes are unexpected. A static view of the architecture can be very misleading. 

So how do you build enterprise architecture to address the dynamics (changes over time) and uncertainty?

A dynamic enterprise and its ecosystem form what is called a complex adaptive system. Understanding complex adaptive systems require a simulation and optimization based enterprise architecture modeling capability that goes beyond the static repository tools and static EA models. Repositories are needed, but they are not enough to really address the business questions that business leaders and executives are struggling with.

The Anylogic simulation environment is the perfect tool for doing the dynamic enterprise architecture modeling. Anylogic provides advanced simulation, optimization, and visualization capabilities to help you answer key business questions, such as: 

• How will my strategy play out over a time horizon under a wide range of scenarios?

• What are my best options and courses of actions in terms of cost, value, and risk? What are the pros and cons of each of these options?

• What is my best course of action, if certain critical events (black swans) happen in future?

• What is the most robust structure for my enterprise? Will it be able to evolve/adapt over time?

• What courses of action keep me within my risk tolerance?

• What are the potential failure modes for my organization? Is my architecture susceptible to failure cascades?

• How will a new proposed business model do under a wide range of scenarios?

• Will the proposed merger/acquisition create business value?

• ….

This is just a sampling of questions that cannot be addressed by traditional enterprise architecture methods and tools. These questions require advanced predictive simulation techniques: Discrete Event Simulation, System Dynamics, and Agent Based Models. These simulation techniques coupled with optimization and analytics can help you answer these questions and deliver value to you enterprise and to your customers. You can explicitly model and visualize network connections, geospatial information, human behaviors and biases, systemic interdependencies, and much more. Best of all you get to experiment in a game like zero risk environment before committing scarce resources to unproven strategies.

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