Case Study: Tenneco Reclaims 40% of EA Time with Ardoq AI

Tenneco reclaims 40% of EA workload with Ardoq

Tenneco, a global automotive manufacturing company, faced a common challenge where its Enterprise Architecture (EA) team was overwhelmed by repetitive, operational questions from the business. With six such queries per week, architects spent significant time manually retrieving information from their Ardoq platform instead of focusing on strategic work. The barrier for stakeholders to self-serve was too high, creating a constant interruption cycle that drained team capacity.

The solution was implementing Ardoq's AI Gateway (MCP Server) to create conversational AI agents. These agents, embedded in tools like Microsoft Teams, allow stakeholders to ask natural language questions and get immediate answers from the architecture data. Ardoq's technology enabled Tenneco to automate routine queries, estimating a recovery of 1.25 FTE worth of effort. This shift is part of a broader plan where Ardoq's AI capabilities aim to redirect 40% of the EA team's workload from manual tasks to high-value strategic work, effectively multiplying the team's impact without adding headcount.

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