04 — Product · PR-850
ABACUS
An enterprise architecture tool that keeps applications, technologies, capabilities and processes in a configurable graph repository, draws current- and future-state models and roadmaps from it, and scores the portfolio for cost, fit, risk and technical debt with configurable calculations. Offered cloud-hosted or on-premises, with an AI assistant and a read-only MCP server.
// FIG. 04 · Capability coverage
Each tile is an L1; the bar is how many of this product's capabilities realize something beneath it. Our judgment, not a vendor claim.
Direct & Govern
Finance
People & Workplace
Customer & Market
Products & Services
Operations & Supply
Technology & Data
Resilience & Responsibility
Industry L1s
- Plant Operations0
- Production Planning & Scheduling0
- Manufacturing Quality & Compliance0
- Industrial Engineering & Continuous Improvement0
- Plant & Process Safety0
- Dealer & Distributor Network0
- Aftermarket & Service Parts0
- Platform Engineering0
- Software Product Release0
- Site Reliability0
- Developer Experience & API Ecosystem0
- Subscription & Tenant Operations0
- Product Analytics & Experimentation0
- Trust & Compliance Assurance0
- Open Source & Community0
- Merchandising & Assortment0
- Store Operations0
- E-commerce & Omnichannel0
- Category & Trade Promotion0
- Loss Prevention0
- Consumer Insights0
- Store Network & Real Estate0
- Returns & Reverse Logistics0
- Network Planning & Engineering0
- Network Build & Field Operations0
- Network Operations & Assurance0
- Subscriber Order & Activation0
- Usage Charging & Subscriber Billing0
- Content & Programming0
- Advertising Sales & Operations0
- Communications Regulatory Obligations0
- Network Planning & Investment0
- Network Construction & Field Work0
- Network Operations & Control0
- Generation & Treatment Operations0
- Metering & Meter Data0
- Utility Customer Service & Billing0
- Energy Supply, Markets & Flexibility0
- Utility Regulation & Resilience0
- Transmission System Operations0
- Water & Wastewater Networks0
- Deposits & Accounts0
- Lending & Credit0
- Payments & Cards0
- Insurance Products & Policy0
- Insurance Claims0
- Wealth & Investment Management0
- Financial Crime0
- Prudential Risk & Regulatory Reporting0
- Patient Access0
- Clinical Care Delivery0
- Clinical Support Services0
- Revenue Cycle0
- Quality & Patient Safety0
- Population Health0
- Health Plan Operations0
- Health Information0
- Post-Acute & Home-Based Care0
The product at the base, its capabilities in the middle (taller = more mature), and the L1s they land under on top (taller = more of them). Our judgment, not a vendor claim.
- Top · Lands under
- L1Enterprise Architecture · 12
- L2IT Strategy & Governance · 5
- L3AI & Automation · 2
- L4Business Process Excellence · 2
- L5Application Delivery · 1
- L6Business Continuity & Crisis · 1
- L7Compliance · 1
- +3 more in Plan
- Middle · Product capabilities
- P1Customizable Repository · core
- P2EA Modeling and Roadmapping · core
- P3Business Capability Mapping · strong
- P4Application Portfolio Management · core
- P5Algorithms and Automations · strong
- P6Technical Debt Management · strong
- P7Risk and Compliance Management · partial
- +4 more in Plan
- Base · Product
- ABACUS · Avolution
Product capabilities · 11
How to read maturity and confidence
Maturity · how much it covers
- core
- What the product is built around; the capability is covered end to end.
- strong
- Covered well, with a few gaps a buyer would notice.
- partial
- Covers part of the capability; expect to pair it with something else.
- emerging
- New or thin; on the roadmap more than in the product.
Confidence · how well it is evidenced
- Evidence confidence: high
- The vendor's own documentation describes this module doing it.
- Evidence confidence: medium
- Documented, but how far it reaches into the capability is our reading.
- Evidence confidence: low
- Our judgment; we found no public page that confirms it.
- PC-850.10
Customizable Repository
Evidence confidence: highMaturity: coreA configurable repository whose application, technology and asset records are kept up to date by the people who own that data, loaded from spreadsheets, Visio and CMDBs and reachable through a REST API.
Vendor page: avolutionsoftware.com/abacus/ ↗ - PC-850.20
EA Modeling and Roadmapping
Evidence confidence: highMaturity: coreCurrent- and future-state architecture models and roadmaps drawn on demand that show transitions over time and the dependencies between initiatives, with starter content for ArchiMate, BPMN and TOGAF.
- BC-170.10.20Target State Definition
- BC-170.10.30Architecture Roadmapping
- BC-170.30.30Reference Architecture
- BC-180.20.30Dependency Management
- PC-850.30
Business Capability Mapping
Evidence confidence: highMaturity: strongCapability maps, started from reference frameworks such as TOGAF, BIZBOK or PCF, linked to the applications, processes and technologies behind each capability to show gaps and redundancy.
Vendor page: avolutionsoftware.com/abacus/ ↗ - PC-850.40
Application Portfolio Management
Evidence confidence: highMaturity: coreAn application inventory with vendor, version and lifecycle data, one view of what each application costs in spend, licenses and hosting, TIME and fit heatmaps, and dependency graphs used to justify retirements.
Vendor page: avolutionsoftware.com/solutions/application-portfolio-management/ ↗ - PC-850.50
Algorithms and Automations
Evidence confidence: highMaturity: strongConfigurable calculations, from supplied logic or rules built without code, that total costs and rate business, technical and security fit, kept as history and compared between future-state scenarios.
- BC-170.20.30Capability Assessment
- BC-170.30.10Application Portfolio Rationalization
- BC-710.50.10Technology Scorecard
- PC-850.60
Technical Debt Management
Evidence confidence: highMaturity: strongScores systems for the cost and risk of their debt, flags events such as end of vendor support, sorts them into retain, refresh, redesign or retire, and shows where debt concentrates in Gantt and heatmap views to order the remediation.
- BC-720.20.40Technical Debt Management
- BC-170.30.20Technology Standards & Lifecycle
- BC-710.50.30Technology Risk Reporting
- PC-850.70
Risk and Compliance Management
Evidence confidence: mediumMaturity: partialLikelihood and impact scoring of risks against applications and infrastructure, security frameworks such as NIST and Essential Eight, change impact checks and models that support continuity and recovery planning.
- BC-760.10.20Security Risk Assessment
- BC-130.20.20Risk Analysis & Rating
- BC-830.10.20Dependency Mapping
- BC-710.50.30Technology Risk Reporting
- PC-850.80
Business Process Modeling
Evidence confidence: highMaturity: partialAs-is and to-be BPMN process models, with APQC content and Visio import, held in the same repository so processes stay linked to capabilities, applications and value streams.
Vendor page: avolutionsoftware.com/solutions/business-process-modeling/ ↗ - PC-850.90
AI Governance
Evidence confidence: highMaturity: partialAn inventory of AI agents, models and applications with their owners, data and dependencies, mapped to controls from frameworks such as the EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF with a compliance score.
Vendor page: avolutionsoftware.com/solutions/ai-governance/ ↗ - PC-850.95
Dynamic Data Visualizations
Evidence confidence: highMaturity: strongSelf-service dashboards with timeline, heatmap, treemap, graph and capability-map views, filtered by cost or risk, and shared with comments and live query results.
Vendor page: avolutionsoftware.com/abacus/ ↗ - PC-850.97
AI Assistant and MCP Server
Evidence confidence: highMaturity: emergingA natural-language assistant, and an MCP server built on it that lets outside AI tools query the repository under the user's own permissions; the MCP server can only read and leaves repository data as it is.
Vendor page: avolutionsoftware.com/abacus/abacus-mcp-server/ ↗
Sources · checked
The public vendor documentation this mapping is based on. Maturity and confidence are our judgment, not the vendor's claim.
- ABACUS Enterprise Architecture Software | Avolution www.avolutionsoftware.com/abacus/
- Application Portfolio Management | Avolution www.avolutionsoftware.com/solutions/application-portfolio-management/
- Plans & Pricing | Avolution www.avolutionsoftware.com/abacus/pricing/