Everything an architecture practice needs, nothing it doesn't.
Northwise covers the full scope of an enterprise architecture practice — from landscape documentation to governance automation. The three differentiating modules have deep-dive pages below.
Landscape
Document your architecture estate using the full ArchiMate 3.x metamodel — elements, relationships, and viewpoints. Import from AMEFF, author directly in the tool. Every element and relationship is versioned, tenant-scoped, and queryable.
Standards
Manage your architecture principles with full lifecycle support — draft, review, publish, retire. Technology catalogue with Hold/Assess/Trial/Adopt/Retire ring model. ADRs tracked as structured artefacts, not loose documents.
Deliverables
15 TOGAF deliverable types tracked as first-class artefacts: Architecture Vision, Business Architecture, IS Architecture, Technology Architecture, Solutions Architecture, and more. Each deliverable is versioned and linked to the elements it references.
Requirements
Architecture requirements captured and linked to landscape elements and initiatives. Track what changed because of what requirement. Full traceability from business driver to architectural decision to implementation.
Initiatives & Findings
Group related changes into initiatives. Findings capture drift, violations, and open questions — either raised manually or generated automatically from Git Tech Discovery scans. Route Findings to Reviews when they need an architecture decision.
Plumbline
Deep-dive availableAutomated governance assessments that run against your published principles and produce a readiness score by section. The AI-author module drafts new principle suggestions into a review inbox when gaps are detected. No more stale standards nobody reads.
Read more about Plumbline →Reviews & Decision Matrix
Deep-dive availableEvery architectural decision routed, recorded, and audited. A short questionnaire determines review weight — no review, light async, or full board sign-off. Routing follows your responsibility matrix. The full cycle is tracked end-to-end.
Read more about Reviews & Decision Matrix →Git Tech Discovery
Deep-dive availableConnect your Git workspaces and let Northwise populate your technology catalogue from real dependency manifests. Automatic drift detection raises Findings when Hold or Banned technologies appear in mapped applications.
Read more about Git Tech Discovery →Notifications & Subscriptions
Subscribe to the entities that matter to you — elements, principles, decisions, scan runs. Get notified when something you care about changes. The notification feed aggregates activity across the whole architecture estate.
Dashboard
A per-tenant overview of architecture health — open Findings, pending reviews, recent scan runs, principle coverage gaps. Configurable layout to surface what your practice cares about most.
User Management & Responsibilities
Three-tier access model: Architect (author and govern), Contributor (participate in reviews, raise requirements), Reader (free, unlimited). Responsibility matrix maps architecture scope to approvers for automatic review routing.