Case Study: Ordnance Survey achieves connected architecture and trusted disaster recovery with Ardoq

Ordnance Survey turns 600M geospatial features into AI-ready architecture with Ardoq

Ordnance Survey, Great Britain's national mapping agency, faced a challenge common to large organizations: its IT infrastructure had grown organically, resulting in a fragmented landscape where critical knowledge was locked in spreadsheets and employees' heads. This lack of a single source of truth made it difficult to answer strategic questions about technology dependencies and risks, slowing down planning and decision-making. To address this, Ordnance Survey selected the Ardoq Enterprise Architecture platform for its flexibility, scalability, and cost-effective licensing model.

The solution implemented with Ardoq involved building a connected architecture practice one use case at a time, starting with data estate management. This provided Ordnance Survey with a single, queryable source of truth that powers high-value outcomes. Key results include enabling trusted disaster recovery planning by connecting business functions to application recovery plans and proactively managing technology risk by identifying applications using soon-to-be obsolete tech. Furthermore, the well-structured data now serves as a firm basis for AI-assisted decision-making, with plans to integrate natural language querying via Microsoft Copilot.

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