A large enterprise has several complex systems, processes and infrastructure. Constant evolution, internal reorgs, mergers and acquisitions, changing regulatory requirements and priorities create a perfect storm.
Fractal C4 presents information pertaining to various enterprise resources such as systems, processes, people, projects, documents, emails and attachments, faxes, screen grabs and countless others as one interconnected network. It allows unprecedented traversal and access to relevant information without the constraints of multiple systems, information islands and non-interoperability.
"... the C4 model provides a way for software development teams to efficiently and effectively communicate their software architecture, at different levels of detail, telling different stories to different types of audience, when doing up front design or retrospectively documenting an existing codebase." - Simon Brown
Fractal C4 helps model and visualize the 4 layers of a C4 model - Context, Containers, Components and Code interactively. It also helps gather model information by integrating with your systems.
Understanding the big picture – understanding business processes and systems, mapping systems to business functions, and processes to infrastructure.
Locating information and resources quickly – mining relevant information scattered across wikis, emails, vendor and in-house tools. Harnessing technology and governance expertise as people move on.
Real-time awareness of the enterprise – insight into real-time performance of key processes
Holistic view of the enterprise – Ability to look at and relate information across silos, and sources of information
Improved IT governance – Better informed to make key decisions quickly. Consistent view of the enterprise performance.
Increased productivity – Establishing a common understanding of how systems, processes, infrastructure and people are related and interact. What cannot be measured cannot be improved.
Brings all aspects of the enterprise together to provide a cohesive high level picture – provides the missing links.
Integrates across functional areas, domains and silos and promotes a shared understanding of the enterprise systems and performance
Adapts rather than impose a particular methodology.
Geared towards ease of use, support for unstructured information and an ability to express ideas without necessarily using complex
terminology.