Salamander’s MooD technology is the leading software platform for Enterprise Business Architecture (see more on Enterprise Business Architecture). Through Salamander’s track record as a software innovator that has stayed close to the needs of its customers and partners, MooD has been able to establish the market for architecture-driven business solutions that support common understanding and decision effectiveness in complex environments.
Gartner, Ovum, Butler and Forrester have all recognised MooD as a significant player in enterprise and business architecture, fully supporting MODAF and certified by TOGAF, and used by a growing number of global businesses as the basis of solutions for technology audit and architecture, business architecture, business value management, devolved operational governance and assurance through to capability management and portfolio optimisation.
MooD is available as a toolset - MooD Business Architect - for individuals and teams of architects, systems engineers, analysts and other professionals to use to support their own processes and methods. This toolset is also used to configure solutions that are deployed on MooD’s server software - MooD Active Enterprise - to be used alongside an organisation’s own business systems.
These solutions are typically deployed in support of specific strategic and governance processes that capitalise on three key technology innovations in the underlying MooD platform:
Data Management: a technically novel and deeply configurable meta model, with associated query language, that allows the interplay of architecture framework and metrics framework
Data Synchronisation: the ability to synchronise and exchange operational and planning data from familiar Office documents or enterprise systems through simple mappings configured through Business Architect
Deployment and Presentation: a distinctive ‘panels’ technology that allows a ‘model canvas’ configured in Business Architect to be exploited as a functionally rich user interface into an architecture driven business solution, giving an unprecedented flexibility and quality of user experience and the possibility of support for processes that stretch beyond architecture and analysis and into the management of change within a business
Salamander and its partners also offer a growing range of pre-configured MooD solutions (see more on Solutions) that are available hosted or deployed into an organisation’s infrastructure.
MooD is supported in EMEA by Salamander, and in other locations by a growing collection of partners and global organisations.
“By addressing the business need for improved accountability over major strategic and planning decisions through the use of MooD Solutions that are developed in conjunction with its customers and
partners, Butler Group believes Salamander differentiates itself well from most other vendors whose focus usually lies either in modelling or analytics.”
Butler Group Report (MooD Solutions, 2009)
