for Professionals and Consultants

Professionals and consultants working within the enterprise or across a client base deal with a great deal of knowledge. They use their skills and expertise to apply this knowledge to particular situations, thereby improving quality, productivity, efficiency and resource utilisation - ultimately adding value for stakeholders of the enterprise.
This group has traditionally been inadequately supported by software tools. Office products produce individual documents, spreadsheets, presentations and the like, but do not relate these to overall projects or provide an easy way to manage templates and versions of documents derived from them. Modeling tools are often too heavyweight and too specialised, forcing unsuitable approaches and notations to be followed. Many tools are single user - limiting their usefulness in a team. Few are properly web enabled, allowing the entry, query and management of information via the intranet or Internet - this limits their usefulness across an enterprise or within a consulting organization with distributed teams. Some high end tools do address areas like enterprise architecture, but are prohibitively expensive.
Inspired, as a long time knowledge-based consultancy group working in the areas of strategy, architectures, program management and methods, has developed a tool specifically to support the kinds of activities undertaken by planners, architects, business engineers, project managers, methods implementors and other knowledge intensive professional roles.
What is Archi?
Archi is a solution comprising a knowledge repository, a web based software tool and sets of meta data which customise the tool for particular purposes, such as enterprise architecture management, program management or methods definition and management. It supports multiple concurrent users and is implemented as a server product behind a standard web server (e.g. IIS™, Apache™, Websphere™) while storing repository information in a standard relational database management system (e.g. SQL Server™, Oracle™, DB2™). It can run in either a Windows NT/2000/2003/XP ™ environment or on a Unix™ platform (special request).
Users access Archi through standard web browsers (e.g. Internet Explorer™, Netscape™). Archi uses only standard protocols supported on current popular browsers and does not require any plug-ins or Java. All that is required is HTML and a basic subset of Java Script.
Archi is very flexible and can be easily extended by a user to support additional types and relationships, in a matter of minutes, interactively at run time and without affecting other users' access to the system.
While Archi manages rich structured data and relationships internally within the repository, it can also reference and manage a wide variety of knowledge assets created in other tools, including: word processing documents, spreadsheets, models, project plans, presentations and even audio and video.