{"id":795,"date":"2010-04-05T13:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/?p=795"},"modified":"2023-05-01T04:51:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T03:51:40","slug":"abacus-is-1-in-ea-tool-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/news\/abacus-is-1-in-ea-tool-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"ABACUS is #1 in EA Tool Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"feat_text\">Avolution, the market leader in metrics-based analysis of architectures, today announced that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pragmaticea.com\/\">Pragmatic EA<\/a>\u00a0has recently undertaken a survey of Enterprise Architecture (EA) tools, including Avolution&#8217;s ABACUS, and after an extensive verification of vendor responses, ABACUS was ranked the #1 tool on the market. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dr Tim O\u2019Neill (founder and principal) said: \u201cWe are extremely pleased with the result of Pragmatic EA tool survey. This independent study has confirmed what we at Avolution have known for some time, that when it is a verified tool assessment, ABACUS is confirmed as quite simply the most flexible, cost-effective, feature-rich and easy-to-use IT strategy, planning and enterprise modelling tool on the market today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full report at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pragmaticea.com\/\">Pragmatic EA<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pragmaticea.com\/\">Pragmatic EA members\u00a0<\/a>can freely download and tailor the scoring criteria.<\/p>\n<p>For various demonstrations of ABACUS please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/avolution\">Avolution&#8217;s YouTube page\u00a0<\/a>and contact us to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/request-a-demo\/\">schedule a demonstration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"small_text\"><strong>About Avolution <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"small_text\">Avolution provides the ABACUS\u00ae solution which is unique to the enterprise modelling space in that it can create multiple solution alternatives (architectures) and then run various simulations (Discrete Event, Monte Carlo etc) against each alternative for metrics such as Performance, Cost and Availability. In so doing it can recommend the optimal path for investment, with predictive and quantitative certainty. More information is available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\">www.avolutionsoftware.com<\/a>. Build any number of solution alternatives and views, all according to a completely flexible meta-model, importing from MS Visio, MS Excel and many other formats. Analyse your architecture(s) for metrics such as; Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Performance, Availability, Agility and many more. View the architecture(s) and the results of any evaluation using advanced techniques such as; 3D, heat maps, timelines, life cycles, capability spaces and trade-off diagrams.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avolution, the market leader in metrics-based analysis of architectures, today announced that\u00a0Pragmatic EA\u00a0has recently undertaken a survey of Enterprise Architecture (EA) tools, including Avolution&#8217;s ABACUS, and after an extensive verification of vendor responses, ABACUS was ranked the #1 tool on the market. Dr Tim O\u2019Neill (founder and principal) said: \u201cWe are extremely pleased with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,1],"tags":[69,50,12,14,201,8,204,198,202,203],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-general","tag-abacus","tag-abacus-enterprise-architecture","tag-avolution","tag-avolution-abacus","tag-ea-tool-survey","tag-enterprise-architecture","tag-leader-in-enterprise-architecture-tool-survey","tag-pragmatic-ea","tag-pragmatic-ea-tool-survey","tag-pragmatic-ea-tool-survey-2010"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ABACUS is #1 in EA Tool Survey | Avolution<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pragmatic EA has recently undertaken their latest EA Tool Survey, where Avolution&#039;s ABACUS has been ranked the #1 tool on the market.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/news\/abacus-is-1-in-ea-tool-survey\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ABACUS is #1 in EA Tool Survey | Avolution\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pragmatic EA has recently undertaken their latest EA Tool Survey, where Avolution&#039;s ABACUS has been ranked the #1 tool on the market.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/news\/abacus-is-1-in-ea-tool-survey\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Avolution\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-04-05T12:00:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-05-01T03:51:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Avolution-SEO-Image-V2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"612\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"381\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Decommissioned User\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Decommissioned User\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/news\/abacus-is-1-in-ea-tool-survey\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/news\/abacus-is-1-in-ea-tool-survey\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Decommissioned User\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/#\/schema\/person\/64b8ea2f7d7d5d7261f705114d1e785d\"},\"headline\":\"ABACUS is #1 in EA Tool Survey\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-04-05T12:00:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-05-01T03:51:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/news\/abacus-is-1-in-ea-tool-survey\/\"},\"wordCount\":294,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"ABACUS\",\"ABACUS Enterprise architecture\",\"Avolution\",\"Avolution ABACUS\",\"EA Tool Survey\",\"Enterprise Architecture\",\"Leader in Enterprise Architecture Tool Survey\",\"Pragmatic EA\",\"Pragmatic EA tool survey\",\"Pragmatic EA tool survey 2010\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Avolution and Industry News\",\"General\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/news\/abacus-is-1-in-ea-tool-survey\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/news\/abacus-is-1-in-ea-tool-survey\/\",\"name\":\"ABACUS is #1 in EA Tool Survey | Avolution\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2010-04-05T12:00:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-05-01T03:51:40+00:00\",\"description\":\"Pragmatic EA has recently undertaken their latest EA Tool Survey, where Avolution's ABACUS has been ranked the #1 tool on the market.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/news\/abacus-is-1-in-ea-tool-survey\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/news\/abacus-is-1-in-ea-tool-survey\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/news\/abacus-is-1-in-ea-tool-survey\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"ABACUS is #1 in EA Tool Survey\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/\",\"name\":\"Avolution\",\"description\":\"The Enterprise Architecture Tool That Transforms With You\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Avolution\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/avoution-orange-favicon.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/avoution-orange-favicon.png\",\"width\":512,\"height\":512,\"caption\":\"Avolution\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/#\/schema\/person\/64b8ea2f7d7d5d7261f705114d1e785d\",\"name\":\"Decommissioned User\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/07a9a45e603ba0fe76d81987f2f50024b66473a11e5a7c94a00de12b615928c6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/07a9a45e603ba0fe76d81987f2f50024b66473a11e5a7c94a00de12b615928c6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Decommissioned User\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"ABACUS is #1 in EA Tool Survey | Avolution","description":"Pragmatic EA has recently undertaken their latest EA Tool Survey, where Avolution's ABACUS has been ranked the #1 tool on the market.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/news\/abacus-is-1-in-ea-tool-survey\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"ABACUS is #1 in EA Tool Survey | Avolution","og_description":"Pragmatic EA has recently undertaken their latest EA Tool Survey, where Avolution's ABACUS has been ranked the #1 tool on the market.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/news\/abacus-is-1-in-ea-tool-survey\/","og_site_name":"Avolution","article_published_time":"2010-04-05T12:00:59+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-05-01T03:51:40+00:00","og_image":[{"width":612,"height":381,"url":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Avolution-SEO-Image-V2.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Decommissioned User","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Decommissioned User","Estimated reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/news\/abacus-is-1-in-ea-tool-survey\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/news\/abacus-is-1-in-ea-tool-survey\/"},"author":{"name":"Decommissioned User","@id":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/#\/schema\/person\/64b8ea2f7d7d5d7261f705114d1e785d"},"headline":"ABACUS is #1 in EA Tool Survey","datePublished":"2010-04-05T12:00:59+00:00","dateModified":"2023-05-01T03:51:40+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/news\/abacus-is-1-in-ea-tool-survey\/"},"wordCount":294,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/#organization"},"keywords":["ABACUS","ABACUS Enterprise architecture","Avolution","Avolution ABACUS","EA Tool Survey","Enterprise Architecture","Leader in Enterprise Architecture Tool Survey","Pragmatic EA","Pragmatic EA tool survey","Pragmatic EA tool survey 2010"],"articleSection":["Avolution and Industry News","General"],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/news\/abacus-is-1-in-ea-tool-survey\/","url":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/news\/abacus-is-1-in-ea-tool-survey\/","name":"ABACUS is #1 in EA Tool Survey | Avolution","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2010-04-05T12:00:59+00:00","dateModified":"2023-05-01T03:51:40+00:00","description":"Pragmatic EA has recently undertaken their latest EA Tool Survey, where Avolution's ABACUS has been ranked the #1 tool on the market.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/news\/abacus-is-1-in-ea-tool-survey\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/news\/abacus-is-1-in-ea-tool-survey\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/news\/abacus-is-1-in-ea-tool-survey\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"ABACUS is #1 in EA Tool Survey"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/","name":"Avolution","description":"The Enterprise Architecture Tool That Transforms With You","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/#organization","name":"Avolution","url":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/avoution-orange-favicon.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/avoution-orange-favicon.png","width":512,"height":512,"caption":"Avolution"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/#\/schema\/person\/64b8ea2f7d7d5d7261f705114d1e785d","name":"Decommissioned User","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/07a9a45e603ba0fe76d81987f2f50024b66473a11e5a7c94a00de12b615928c6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/07a9a45e603ba0fe76d81987f2f50024b66473a11e5a7c94a00de12b615928c6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Decommissioned User"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9313,"href":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/9313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}