For enterprise architects
Your time goes to judgement, not to groundwork.
Each software demand reaches you with ranked requirements, options from your own landscape and the market, and a fit analysis that shows its sources. You review, correct and sign. The reasoning stays on record when people move on.
Where an architect's time goes today
Architecture teams are small, and most software demands pass through them.
- Every demand waits for you
- A request sits in the queue until an architect has time to write the requirements and look for options. When that person is away, the work stops.
- Reuse depends on who remembers
- Whether an application you already run covers the need depends on someone's memory of the landscape, or on a form sent to application owners.
- The reasoning lives in one head
- When someone asks why a choice was made, they ask you. When you leave, the reasoning leaves with you.
What changes with Northmap
The groundwork is done before the demand reaches you, and every demand goes through the same checks.
Requirements you correct, not write
Northmap drafts use cases and must-have, should-have and nice-to-have requirements from the request. It flags what is missing, such as where data is hosted. You edit a draft instead of starting from a blank page.
Your landscape checked first
Northmap searches your application portfolio and a market catalog in one pass. An application you already run appears next to the products you could buy, scored on the same requirements.
Scores you can check
Each option is scored requirement by requirement, with a confidence level and the reasoning. Every answer shows whether it comes from your data, external research or the vendor. You can override any score.
Your checklists on every demand
Each review domain has its own template and checklist. Northmap prepares a pre-read that flags blockers and open questions for reviewers. It never gives the verdict.
| Requirement | ContractHubReuse | CLM suite ABuy | CLM suite BBuy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clause library with approval workflow | |||
| E-signature for external parties | |||
| Sign-in with Microsoft Entra ID | |||
| Contract data hosted in the EU |
In most architecture teams, one or two people carry every demand and remember every decision.
When the architect who decided leaves, the reasoning should stay.
In Northmap, the requirements, the options compared, the scores, the sign-offs and the rationale stay attached to the demand. The next architect starts from the record.
See Northmap on one of your real demands
Bring a request you are working on. In 30 minutes we show you the requirements, the reuse and market options, and how the decision would be recorded.