Last week, Gartner Inc released its the 2009 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools report. Led by Robert A. Handler and Chris Wilson, the new Magic Quadrant provides an up to date and broad coverage of currently available EA software.

According to the authors of the report ‘“In both favorable and adverse economic conditions, organizations need visibility into their businesses. By enabling the creation, structuring and analysis of multiple aspects of enterprise architecture (EA), EA tools go far in fulfilling this need”.