Case Study: Plymouth University achieves a more collaborative, agile enterprise architecture and proves the value of EA with Corso Agile EA

A more collaborative and agile approach to enterprise architecture delivers new business and IT outcomes, proves the value of EA

Plymouth University, a large UK institution with around 27,000 students and 3,000 staff, created an Enterprise Architecture Practice of Excellence to better align technology with business strategy and inform investment decisions. The small EA team faced a fragmented landscape of spreadsheets, diagrams and databases that made it hard to maintain an accurate, shareable architecture library and provide timely analysis to stakeholders.

They adopted Corso Agile EA, a web-based SaaS repository that was up and running quickly and allowed the team to centralize existing data, build models and run impact analysis. Using a collaborative, capability-driven approach (Ideas and Requirements to Capability Modeling), the EA Practice produced roadmaps and reports that reduced cost and complexity, increased agility, secured senior buy-in, improved CIO collaboration and proved the value of EA across the university within 12 months.

Plymouth University

Adrian Hollister

Head of Strategy and Architecture