Modern Enterprise Architecture for State & Local Government

State and local government organizations are under increasing pressure to modernize legacy systems, control IT spend, meet governance requirements, and deliver reliable digital services to citizens—often while working with fragmented application inventories, stale documentation, and constrained budgets. Ardoq helps public sector organizations address these challenges by providing a modern Enterprise Architecture (EA) platform that delivers a living, always-current view of the entire IT and business landscape.

Ardoq enables state agencies and centralized state IT organizations to replace spreadsheets, static diagrams, and disconnected tools with a single, trusted system of record for applications, capabilities, costs, risks, and dependencies. Using a flexible, graph-based data model, Ardoq makes it possible to understand how applications, systems, capabilities and services, people, and data are connected—so leaders can confidently plan change, assess impact, and prioritize investments.

For governing IT agencies, Ardoq supports statewide visibility and standardization while enabling a federated operating model. Central teams can define enterprise architecture standards, policies, and taxonomies, while individual agencies maintain ownership of their data. This approach improves compliance, reduces redundancy, strengthens oversight, and accelerates statewide modernization initiatives such as cloud migration, application rationalization, and IT consolidation.

For individual agencies, local governments, and public higher education, Ardoq provides practical tools to improve transparency, reduce technical debt, and align IT decisions with mission outcomes. Agencies use Ardoq to inventory applications, assess lifecycle and risk, understand total cost of ownership, and identify opportunities to retire or modernize systems. Built-in visualization and impact analysis help teams understand dependencies before making changes—reducing risk and avoiding service disruption.

Ardoq is trusted by multiple U.S. state agencies and municipalities to support real-world public sector priorities, including application portfolio management, IT cost optimization, governance and compliance reporting, and long-term transformation planning. Agencies have used Ardoq to significantly reduce manual reporting effort, identify millions in potential cost savings, accelerate project prioritization, and establish enterprise architecture as a core, repeatable capability.

With enterprise-grade security, proven scalability, and support for state-level compliance expectations, Ardoq is designed to meet the operational and governance needs of public sector organizations. Available through Carahsoft, Ardoq enables agencies to procure quickly through approved contracting vehicles—helping them move from insight to action faster while delivering better outcomes for citizens.