Clausmark
The Enabler of Smarter Enterprise Architecture

For every entrepreneur or organization, it is essential to keep track of resources, products to be delivered, and overall costs involved. This, combined with constantly growing customer needs and scalability requirements, makes enterprise architecture changes inevitable. By creating a balance of all aforementioned dependencies within an organization, Clausmark redefines enterprise architecture as the core of all financial and project management initiatives.

Based on this concept, Clausmark has developed the holistic IT management platform, Bee4IT. It is designed to comprehensively integrate business processes and applications while providing a collaborative environment for various organizational entities. Bee4IT enhances enterprise architecture for businesses by combining the best agile delivery and project management tools with a model for improved financial management.

Bee4IT specifically facilitates enterprise architecture and strategy execution activities by using a focused ITFM cost model and simplified allocation approach. The tool offers customers the opportunity to streamline workflows by ensuring fast and competent decision-making. As Sönke Claussen explains, “Enterprise architecture is the common language for all areas of an organization. Bee4IT helps entrepreneurs organize their entire service portfolio, infrastructure, and other core company processes to speak the same language. So, it becomes easier to improve operational efficiency at all levels.”

With that in mind, what makes Bee4IT unique among other enterprise architecture platforms? Its unique ability to integrate with multiple operational systems (e.g., ERP or ITSM) is certainly one part of the answer. Bee4IT offers a 360° approach to improve enterprise architecture for seamless interactions between stakeholders, enhancing transparency at all operational levels.

Regarding the more detailed benefits of Bee4IT, Clausmark helped logistics giant, DB Schenker, solve the twofold challenge of ensuring compliance for all local companies they had acquired, while facilitating the implementation of corporate solutions. In assessing this task from a financial, compliance, and technical architecture perspective, Clausmark helped DB Schenker close business gaps with Bee4IT. Specifically, Clausmark assisted the company by connecting the platform to the client’s financial management system, in order to access overall operational costs, determine the appropriate rollout strategy, design a process to replace systems, enhance the company’s enterprise architecture, increase the overall value of IT, and reduce related project costs.

Regarding such collaborations, Claussen states, “The guiding questions behind outlining a business objective are: What do you want to achieve as a company, what trends should you consider that will drive your business, and how do you implement a strategy that considers targets, trends, and enables execution” Technical trends disrupt the market, and are bundled by organizations to streamline activities and strive for a more focused approach. Furthermore, companies must adapt to current compliance regulations and achieve better coordination among different functional groups, thus producing positive business outcomes. Clausmark serves the enterprise architecture landscape as an enabler for companies to achieve improved collaboration among IT functions and core business processes.

According to Claussen, the trend of introducing smart enterprise architecture platforms is becoming increasingly popular due to the growing need for fast execution and improved financial management. He concludes, “Enterprise architecture tools create the basis for a company’s swift and efficient digital transformation, especially in rapidly changing environments.”