Governance Enterprise Manager (GEM)

The Adaptive GEM Offering provides an excellent user experience by automating governance and analytics capabilities enhanced by our robust AI enabled semantic knowledge graph technology.   

The Adaptive GEM Platform provides comprehensive capabilities leveraging AI that augments existing techno-landscapes by connecting the dots leveraging standards-based meta-models that provide traceability and lineage analytics for data and models. This provides the ability to provide enhanced data quality by identifying the instance data that is associated with the underlying metadata. Organizations and users have the ability to leverage AI and natural language searches for enhanced governance and analytics by combining the quality of a meta-model driven approach to understanding links and associations of the data and model landscape.

Key solutions areas included with the Adaptive GEM Platform include :

Adaptive provides our clients the ability to license modules of the Adaptive GEM Platform.

Adaptive Integrator Suite Module

The Adaptive Metadata Manager™ product (V11.0) comprises a number of highly configurable software components that provide an organization with the eight core capabilities required to govern and improve virtually any data-driven business capability. 

These capabilities are: Data Lineage, Data Quality, Impact Analysis, Business Terminology, Business to Technical Traceability, Version Management, Change Approval Workflow, Stewardship, and Automated Harvesting & Stitching of the Data showing source to target and target to source of how the data flows throughout an organizations.

The quality, reliability, security, accessibility, and usability of a company’s data dictate the effectiveness of the organization in driving new business opportunities, delivering state-of-the-art customer service, managing risk, generating meaningful decision support models, and reducing operating costs.

Data Governance and Metadata Management are two closely associated Data Management Capabilities which organizations must address in order to truly turn their data into Information Assets.  Without a complete understanding of the data upon which an organization relies, decisions about how it should be managed and used for competitive advantage, new product development, target marketing, risk management, financial reporting and regulatory compliance are based more on “instinct” than on “facts”.

Effective governance of information assets demands setting up formal governance bodies and processes and establishing control of the organization’s “knowledge” about those assets to better answer these questions. Metadata is the principle means by which this knowledge is represented.

Metadata management is an important component of a data governance strategy as it provides a single, reliable enterprise-view of data while facilitating auditing, reporting and compliance.

Adaptive’s Metadata Manager remains among the industry’s leading enablers for data governance – making it possible for companies to orchestrate cross-functional activities that influence data outcomes, which in turn, drive business effectiveness around decision support, campaigns, customer service, operations, compliance and risk.

Adaptive Metadata Manager Module

The Adaptive’s Integrator Suite comprises a suite of tools to harvest and parse metadata from third-party tools.    Sources include:

  • Databases
  • ETL Tools and Platforms
  • Business Intelligence Tools
  • ERP Systems
  • Legacy Code Applications (i.e. COBOL, PLSQL, JCL, ADABAS)
  • Cloud based sources (i.e. Salesforce)

Adaptive Enterprise Architecture Manager Module

Transform Your Enterprise Through Strategic Architecture

In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, the biggest challenge facing modern enterprises is change itself. Without a complete understanding of how your organization works—from business strategies to IT infrastructure—planning for the future becomes
guesswork rather than strategic decision-making.

The Adaptive Enterprise Architecture Manager™ (EAM) is your compass in navigating organizational complexity. Enhanced with cutting-edge generative AI capabilities, we help you build a comprehensive, intelligent knowledge repository that captures the full scope of your Enterprise Architecture. Now you can not only understand where you are today, but also interact with your architectural knowledge using natural language queries to confidently chart your course to where you want to be tomorrow.

Why Enterprise Architecture Matters

Enterprise Architecture is literally about modeling the way your organization works. It provides a series of diagrams and models that illustrate how your whole organization is structured and how all of its parts inter-relate. More importantly, it reveals where your organization doesn’t work together as well as it should, highlighting redundancy and misalignment that constrains your ability to adapt and grow.

Without Enterprise Architecture, applications are developed out of context, systems become legacy before their time, and change initiatives face unnecessary obstacles and costs. Our EAM solution ensures that your entire corporate infrastructure can be aligned so that new business strategies can be implemented as rapidly as possible throughout your organization.

The Adaptive EAM Platform

Adaptive Enterprise Architecture Manager™ is a robust, scalable, and web-based knowledge repository solution for organizing, integrating, and analyzing information describing the key elements of your enterprise. Built on new-generation graph-based
technology and the latest meta-modeling standards, Adaptive EAM captures strategic intent and cascades it down through your organization to the very lowest level of IT infrastructure.

Comprehensive Architecture Coverage

Our powerful platform supports the eleven architectural domains of the Adaptive Reference Model™, used to identify and define the relationships among your enterprise’s key elements:

Strategic Foundation:

  • External Influence Architecture – Understanding your organizational context and external environment to define strategic intent
  • Strategic Intent Architecture – Management’s response to external demands, providing direction and setting targets
  • Transformation Program Architecture – Optimal coordination of projects throughout your organization

Operational Excellence:

  • Process Architecture – Consolidation and optimization of business processes with inputs, outputs, governance, and enablers
  • Organization Architecture – Formal organizational structure aligned with strategic intent
  • Governance Architecture – Creating predictability and accountability through policies, standards, and best practices
  • Performance Architecture – Metrics and criteria for process performance and strategic achievement

Resource Management:

  • Financial Architecture – Framework for tracking revenue, costs, and expenses
  • Human Resource Architecture – Optimum staffing and utilization of skill sets
  • Physical Asset Architecture – Tracking physical assets and their process dependencies
  • Information Technology Architecture – Complete IT blueprint covering applications, information, platforms, and networks
Key Capabilities and Features

Advanced Model Generation

Leverage the latest meta-modeling standards and techniques to generate graphical models supporting industry frameworks including:

  • TOGAF
  • Zachman Framework
  • Balanced Scorecard
  • SWOT Analysis
  • Business Motivation Models
  • Business Process Notation
  • IT Architecture Models

Intelligent Integration and Analysis

  • Semantic Data Harvesting – Automatically capture and maintain up-to-date information from external data sources
  • Standards-Based Approach – Open, standards-based platform ensuring interoperability and future-proofing
  • Drag & Drop Semantic Modeling – Intuitive visual modeling capabilities for rapid architecture development
  • Enterprise Scalability – Built to handle the complexity and scale of the world’s largest organizations

AI-Powered Knowledge Discovery

  • Natural Language Queries – Leverage generative AI large language models to search your EAM knowledge base using conversational language
  • Intelligent Content Formatting – Get results formatted exactly as you need them—whether executive summaries, detailed technical reports, or visual diagrams
  • Unstructured Content Integration – Upload documents, audio, and video files that get automatically indexed in our vector database
  • Comprehensive Knowledge Access – AI responses draw from both your structured EAM models and unstructured organizational content for complete insights

Web-Native Architecture

  • True Web-Based Solution – Not an afterthought—web technology at the core for easy deployment and maintenance
  • Enterprise-Wide Access – Seamless access to strategy and architecture models across highly dispersed enterprises
  • Collaborative Platform – Enable cross-functional teams to work together effectively
  • Role-Based Security – Customizable workflows and access controls to ensure data quality and maintain audits
Business Impact and Benefits
  • Accelerated Decision Making – Make business decisions in full context rather than isolation, with complete information readily available
  • Faster Business Change – Implement new business strategies rapidly throughout your entire organization with systems that are aligned and ready to respond
  • Hidden Asset Discovery – Uncover and exploit hidden corporate assets that aren’t being fully utilized across both IT and business areas
  • Reduced Staff Turnover Impact – Enterprise Architecture serves as a knowledge repository, reducing induction times for new employees and capturing critical knowledge from departing personnel
  • Improved Operating Procedures – Re-evaluate and optimize business processes as part of the architecture modeling process
  • Redundancy Elimination – Identify and remove redundant activities, overlapping product development, and duplicated expertise across departments
IT-Specific Advantages
  • Reduced Development Costs – Applications built within enterprise context don’t become legacy, eliminating unnecessary re-development costs
  • Improved System Quality – Cross-enterprise impact analysis reduces errors by ensuring all developments occur within proper enterprise context
  • Faster Development Lifecycles – Automatic discovery of affected resources reduces development times and improves productivity
  • Reduced Maintenance Overhead – Impact analysis capabilities directly reduce maintenance requirements and costs
  • Business-Aligned Applications – Ensure all IT developments truly meet business needs through strategic alignment
AI-Enhanced Knowledge Management

Conversational Architecture Insights – Ask questions about your enterprise architecture in plain English and receive intelligent, contextual responses that synthesize information across your entire knowledge base.

Adaptive Content Processing – Transform unstructured organizational content—meeting recordings, strategy documents, technical specifications—into searchable, actionable architectural intelligence.

Personalized Information Delivery – Get architecture insights formatted specifically for your role and needs, from high-level executive summaries to detailed technical implementation guides.

Comprehensive Knowledge Synthesis – AI responses combine structured architectural models with unstructured organizational content, providing complete context for better decision-making.

Compliance and Risk Management

Regulatory Compliance – Capture and maintain a shareable knowledge base of relevant regulations, objectives, KPIs, and strategies.

Change Impact Assessment – Identify required changes to processes and resources for improved capabilities and compliance.

Enterprise Dependencies – Build a complete view of your enterprise and all critical elements and dependencies.

Proven Enterprise Success

Adaptive Enterprise Architecture Manager™ is trusted by some of the world’s largest organizations and federal government agencies to:

  • Capture strategic intent and ensure understanding throughout the enterprise
  • Develop Enterprise Architectures that align business and IT strategies, processes, and resources
  • Provide the foundation for aligned, synchronized, and accelerated business transformation
  • Protect and harvest investments in existing tools and models through comprehensive integration capabilities
Getting Started

Transform your organization’s ability to understand itself, plan for change, and execute strategic initiatives. The Adaptive EAM platform, powered by advanced AI capabilities, provides the comprehensive foundation you need to turn organizational complexity into competitive advantage.

Whether you’re looking to improve compliance, accelerate digital transformation, reduce IT costs, or simply gain better visibility into how your organization really works, our AI- enhanced Enterprise Architecture Manager delivers the insights and capabilities you need to succeed. Ask questions in plain English, upload any organizational content, and get the architectural intelligence you need formatted exactly how you want it.