Introduction
ArchNGN is an enterprise intelligence platform for managing and understanding your organisation’s technology landscape. It provides a structured, collaborative environment where architects, engineers, and technology leaders can model, analyse, and govern the systems that power their business.
Main Concepts
Section titled “Main Concepts”ArchNGN is built on a small set of concepts that you will see referenced throughout the platform and these docs.
Account
Section titled “Account”An Account is your organisation’s tenant on the platform: a fully isolated container for users, workspaces, and data. Account Admins manage users, roles, and platform-wide settings.
Workspace
Section titled “Workspace”A Workspace is an isolated container within an account for organising architectural data. Each workspace has its own objects, associations, jobs, and connectors, allowing teams to model different domains, lines of business, or value streams independently.
Objects & Associations
Section titled “Objects & Associations”Objects represent technical and business assets such as applications, servers, APIs, capabilities, and data entities. Associations define directional relationships between them, building the dependency graph that powers impact analysis and visualisation.
Repository
Section titled “Repository”The Repository is the centralised, searchable view of all architectural data in the active workspace, organised into Objects, Associations, Reference Library, and Enterprise Glossary tabs. It is the primary place to browse and manage your model.
Metamodel
Section titled “Metamodel”The Metamodel defines the categories, types, and relationships available in a workspace across four categories: Business, Application, Data, and Technology. Overlays extend or restrict that schema per account, Frameworks apply compliance regimes and report conformance, and the Reference Library captures the policies, standards, decisions, blueprints, and patterns that govern your designs.
Connectors
Section titled “Connectors”Connectors link ArchNGN to external systems, including GitHub repositories, cloud storage (S3, Azure Blob, GCS), SharePoint documents, and read-only discovery of your AWS, Azure, and GCP estates, ingesting metadata to keep your architectural model aligned with what is actually deployed.
Workstreams
Section titled “Workstreams”Workstreams are AI-powered workflows that generate architecture designs, reverse-engineer existing systems, produce implementation documentation, and review designs against best practices.
Explorer
Section titled “Explorer”The Explorer visualises the workspace as an interactive dependency graph, with a Workspace view for the whole model, an Object view for a single object and its neighbours, and a Context view that adds the governing guidance an AI sees.
Reporting
Section titled “Reporting”Reporting provides pre-built viewpoints (capability models, technology portfolios, application landscapes, and more) to communicate architectural insight to different stakeholders.
Responsive Design
Section titled “Responsive Design”The ArchNGN web application is fully responsive and works seamlessly across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices. The interface adapts to the screen it is running on:
- Desktop: Full-width data grids, side-by-side detail panes, and horizontal graph layouts.
- Tablet: Condensed navigation and multi-column layouts that gracefully collapse to single columns where space is tight.
- Mobile: Tables convert to card lists for easy scrolling, the sidebar collapses to a slide-out menu, and graph views switch to portrait layouts optimised for narrow screens.
Every page (Repository, Explorer, Reports, Workstreams, Jobs, Model, and Settings) supports the same workflows on a phone as on a desktop browser, with no separate mobile app to install.
Who It Is For
Section titled “Who It Is For”| Role | How ArchNGN Helps |
|---|---|
| Enterprise Architects | Model and govern the full technology landscape across business, application, and technology layers. |
| Solution Architects | Design new systems with AI-assisted automation and validate designs against organisational standards. |
| Engineering Leaders | Gain visibility into system dependencies, technology portfolios, and lifecycle status. |
| Business Stakeholders | Access read-only reports and visualisations to understand how technology supports business capabilities. |
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