Architecture health check: a fixed-price enterprise architecture assessment

The architecture health check is a fixed-price enterprise architecture assessment of your application landscape. For $4,500 we import your own data into Entelim, run its analysis over it, and deliver a written report within two weeks of kickoff. The report covers what is in your landscape, what breaks if each critical system fails and who owns it, what you pay for twice, which applications have no owner, and which contracts renew next.

Who it is for

Buy the health check when someone is about to ask you a question about your systems and you cannot answer it from a list.

• A CIO or head of architecture before a budget round, an audit, an acquisition or a decision about which tools to keep.
• A scale-up CTO before a funding round, when an investor will ask what you run and what depends on what.
• A programme or portfolio lead who has been handed a landscape nobody has written down and needs a first, honest picture of it.

You do not need an existing model. You need a list of your applications, in whatever form it exists today.

What is included

The health check runs the analyses Entelim already performs, over your real data and not a demonstration. Each is a section of the report.

• Application inventory. Every application with its recorded owner, cost, lifecycle stage and business criticality, and the record completeness for each, so you can see which fields are missing and for how many applications.
• What breaks if a system fails. For each critical system, the things that would stop, by layer and by how many steps away they are, marked as stated in your data or derived from it, with the recorded owner of each affected element or a plain statement that no owner is recorded.
• Duplicate and overlapping applications. Duplicate groups found by running detection across the inventory, and where several applications share a capability, the contracts behind them with their combined value and nearest end date.
• Applications with no recorded owner. The list, grouped by business criticality, and the ownership coverage by business unit.
• Rationalisation scores. A TIME model recommendation (Tolerate, Invest, Migrate or Eliminate) and a health score from 0 to 100 for each application that has enough data to be scored. Applications without enough evidence are listed as such.
• Renewals. Contracts renewing in the next quarter, with the renewal date, annual cost and whether the contract auto-renews, where you give us contracts.
• A model you keep. Your landscape stays in Entelim as an ArchiMate model you can keep working in.
• A read-out call to walk through the report with your team.

Where your data is incomplete, the report shows the gap as a gap. A missing owner, cost or contract date is reported as missing, never filled with a guess.

How it works

1. Scoping call. A short call to agree what to import and which systems matter most. The clock starts at kickoff.
2. Import. You send the files. We load them into Entelim: spreadsheets, an Archi or ArchiMate Open Exchange file, or exports from your current tools.
3. Analysis. We run duplicate detection, rationalisation scoring and the dependency analysis across your landscape, and check every finding against your data.
4. Written report. The report is delivered within two weeks of kickoff.
5. Read-out call. We take your team through the findings and the gaps in the data.

What we need from you

• Your application list. A spreadsheet is enough. Name, owner, cost and lifecycle stage are the fields that make the analysis useful, and any you have are better than none.
• An existing model, if you have one. An Archi file, an ArchiMate Open Exchange file, or an export from your current tool.
• Contracts and licences, if you want the renewals section. A list with vendor, annual cost, renewal or end date and whether the contract auto-renews.
• A named person to answer questions while we load and check the data.

Your side is gathering the files and answering questions about what they mean. Entelim imports CSV and Excel spreadsheets and ArchiMate models directly, so the files do not need reformatting first.

Price and terms

$4,500, one time. Delivered within two weeks of kickoff.

The price is fixed. It covers the scoping call, the import, the analysis, the written report and the read-out call. It does not include a subscription: if you want to keep using Entelim after the report, the model stays in your workspace, and you can work on the free Community plan (one organisation, up to three people) or choose a plan on the pricing page. You can also export the model as ArchiMate Open Exchange, or self-host the open-source edition under AGPL-3.0.

To buy, request the health check below and we will set up the scoping call.

Where the analysis comes from

The report is built from Entelim's own modules, so you can repeat any part of it yourself afterwards:

• Applications holds the inventory, owners and cost.
• Rationalization holds the TIME scores and duplicate groups.
• what breaks if a service fails, and who gets called shows the dependency answer.
• Importing an Archi or Open Exchange model shows how your files come in.

If you would rather have the tool set up for your team to run, see the Team annual plan with onboarding.

Frequently asked questions

How long does an architecture health check take, and what if we are slow to respond?

The report is delivered within two weeks of kickoff, which follows a short scoping call where we agree what to import. The analysis runs on your files and your answers, so the date moves with them. Agree a date for the files on the scoping call, name one person to answer questions, and send what you have as soon as the call is booked.

What if our landscape turns out to be more complex than expected?

The price is fixed for the scope we agree on the scoping call: what to import and which systems matter most. If your landscape is larger than you first described, we say so on that call and agree the scope before kickoff, so the $4,500 never changes halfway through. The report always shows what the data could and could not support.

What if we don't have an existing ArchiMate model?

You do not need one. A spreadsheet listing your applications is enough to start, and owner, cost and lifecycle stage make the analysis more useful. An Archi or ArchiMate Open Exchange file and a contracts list are optional extras that add sections. Where data is missing, the report counts the gap as a finding and never fills it with a guess.

How is this different from just using the free plan?

The analyses are the ones Entelim runs for you on any plan, and the free Community plan covers one organisation and up to three people, so you can load your own data and ask the same questions. The health check is the service around them: we scope, load and check the data, run the analysis, write the report and take your team through it, to a date.

What is in the report, and what stays in the product?

The written report covers the application inventory, what breaks if each critical system fails, duplicate and overlapping applications, applications with no owner, TIME scores, and renewals where you give us contracts. The model itself stays in your workspace, where you keep working in it, export it as ArchiMate Open Exchange, or load it into a self-hosted copy under AGPL-3.0.

Can we extend the engagement afterwards?

The health check is a fixed scope, and the model stays in your workspace when it ends. You can carry on yourselves on the free plan or a paid plan, or add the Team annual plan with onboarding if you want your people trained to keep the model current. If you want more analysis than the agreed scope, ask on the read-out call.

Do you sign an NDA, and how is our data handled?

Everyone we authorise to handle personal data is bound by a duty of confidentiality, set out in our data processing agreement. If you want a mutual NDA signed before any file is sent, say so when you request the health check: nothing is imported until after the scoping call. See the privacy page for how Entelim handles personal data.

What exactly is fixed for $4,500, and is anything guaranteed?

Scope and price are fixed: the scoping call, the import, the analysis, the written report and the read-out call, with no hourly billing and no subscription attached. Every finding is checked against your data before it goes into the report, and a thin section means thin data, which the report says plainly. The pricing page covers the plans, which are separate.

Request the health check

Use the form below. We will reply to arrange the scoping call.