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”.

They continue “Despite the recent challenging economic climate, the adoption of EA tools has continued to increase significantly, with most of the vendors reporting revenue growth of greater than 20% in 2008, as well as growth throughout 2009. The richness of the tool capabilities continued to increase, particularly in those related to the management of EA and the exchange of information with other tools.”

For this report, Gartner analyzed 10 different offerings from vendors and positioned them based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute. Vendors in the upper right segment of the chart being considered the “Leaders”. Architecture & Governance congratulates both the vendors and Gartner Inc for their success in this review.

The 2009 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools is available for complimentary download (for a limited time) from Troux Technologies: http://www.troux.com/news/gartner09