The Easiest, Quickest, Most Cost-Effective, and Best Path To Your Enterprise Architecture Success is working with The Enterprise Architecture Center Of Excellence (EACOE).
Accelerate your impact and career aspirations with our signature Enterprise Architecture Certification And Methodology.
Unlock your full Enterprise Architecture potential with EACOE’s clear, step-by-step methodology tailored to simplify complexity and accelerate your grasp of essential concepts. Unlike bulky certifications bogged down by dense, abstract frameworks, EACOE’s approach is hands-on and practical - forget stressful multiple-choice exams; you learn by doing through immersive workshops. Gain immediately actionable skills with real-world templates, project plans, and tools that empower you to start making an impact the moment you finish. Plus, EACOE sharpens your communication and clarity with structured, business-aligned definitions that bridge gaps with stakeholders, easing confusion. Designed for professionals at all levels, this flexible, accessible path fosters confidence in decision-making aligned with real enterprise goals - not just theory.
Accelerate your certification journey with EACOE’s streamlined, practitioner-focused workshops that cut through unnecessary memorization and abstract theory. Other certifications often demand exhaustive exam preparation and lengthy study; EACOE emphasizes practical learning-by-doing. Through focused workshops with step-by-step guidance and coaching, you gain real-world architecture skills rapidly, ready to “hit the ground running” as soon as next Monday. This efficiency does not just shorten your route to certification - it propels your career forward faster by equipping you with immediately applicable skills that employers value.
Make your training dollars work smarter with EACOE’s all-inclusive certification package combining expert instruction, tools, and certification in one clear price - no hidden fees for exams, study materials, tools, or extra courses. EACOE’s hands-on methodology eliminates the need for costly exam retakes or endless resource purchases typical with other programs. Because certification is integrated directly into the workshop experience, you save both money and time, limiting your days away from work and lost opportunities. With EACOE, you get proven, market-relevant skills supported by comprehensive templates, a software tool to guide your entire architecture development process, example projects, tutorials, and exclusive access to ongoing learning resources—everything needed for success in one integrated offering unique in the industry.
EACOE is not just certification; it is a career accelerator designed to give you real, market-ready skills that set you apart in today’s competitive Enterprise Architecture job market. This program equips you to deliver measurable business results immediately, boosting your credibility, career advancement prospects, and earning potential significantly. Our immersive, hands-on training - centered around real-world projects and dynamic workshops - equips you to confidently tackle enterprise architecture challenges from day one of certification, rather than just pass an exam. EACOE helps you create tangible architectural deliverables aligned tightly with business goals, positioning you as a practical, results-focused expert sought by employers. Continuous access to resources, professional networks, and advanced certifications ensures your ongoing growth and leadership readiness, while the adaptable skills you gain open up broad career flexibility across industries. This hands-on approach also builds your confidence and influence - making you the architect of choice, ready to lead and deliver value in any organization, field, or domain.
In as little as one day after the EACOE Certification Workshop, you will be able to demonstrate how you can provide incredible value to your organization. The three steps are:
Step #1
Get hands-on practice in every phase of enterprise architecture. 25% is lecture - the rest is hands-on, learning-by-doing training; we’ll coach you every step of the way so it’s fast and painless.
Step #2
You leave with everything you need to get started “next Monday morning.” We get you started delivering a practical and usable enterprise architecture out the gate, as outlined in our workshop.
Step #3
What you develop will be consumable and usable by all stakeholders. You’ll have the skills and deliverables to facilitate transformation and drive measurable outcomes, no matter the industry or domain.
Train and Certify in the Signature EACOE Enterprise Architecture Practitioner Training & Certification Workshop.
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Dedicated Team Four-day Workshops on your schedule, time zone and, upon request, your location. For teams greater than five individuals, we offer discounts.
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Hotel information and classroom directions will be provided once registration is confirmed. Held Monday - Thursday, 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM.
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Designed to be as close to the, as face-to-face Certification. Physical Materials are shipped once registration is confirmed. Held Monday - Thursday, 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM.
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The same great content as our “live” workshops with interactive coaching and exercises - on your schedule with full flexibility. Course Access stays open for 6 Months.
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Dedicated Two-day “one-on-one” Workshop on your schedule, time zone and, upon request, your location. This ultimate personalized coaching and training has a 30% premium.
We have had the privilege of assisting these Organizations… and thousands more
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The Enterprise Architecture Center Of Excellence (EACOE) Quick Start Enterprise Architecture Methodology uses human-consumable stakeholder-focused deliverables and outcome-driven roadmaps to drive projects, departments, or organizations strategies to specific desired outcomes.
The EACOE Quick Start Enterprise Architecture Methodology demystifies the process of designing the architecture of the enterprise. It provides a step-by-step approach to Enterprise Architecture, ensuring the organization meets the goals and objectives established by management.
The Methodology enables organizations to use Enterprise Architecture as a decision-making tool for business strategy, information technology development.
Using the EACOE Enterprise Architecture Methodology
Reduction in development costs
Faster in development to execution
What Our Clients Are Saying
We were able to take the concepts and apply them at all levels of the organization using EACOE’s EA methodology in order to define and align the company strategy for the next 5 years. I can honestly say that because of my initial attendance in Sam Holcman’s EA training class and one-on-one work with him, my career and my capabilities to positively impact the company I work for have both been enhanced greatly.”
Ed Rybicki
Former Director, Process Integration, Information Technology Process and Organization
Volkswagen
“The Enterprise Architecture process presented is both theoretically sound and actual-practice refined. Nothing is wasted – no “architecture for architectures” sake, just architecture for helping the business run better. “
Tony Scott
Former Corporate VP and CIO
Microsoft Corporation
“I have personally utilized Sam’s approach to EA during my career as a practicing EA professional. Sam’s process provides practitioners with a clear and actionable planning process utilizing the Enterprise Framework. At several large organizations I’ve been a part of, this methodology allowed us to clearly define the as-is and three year to-be architecture that was driven by business strategy.”
Mike Boeselager
Lead Enterprise Architect
Briggs and Stratton
“The Enterprise Framework represents a shift in thinking. To me it was one of those “light bulb” moments where you realize this is the way to do it. The Enterprise Framework isn’t difficult to understand, it is not difficult to practice and it is cheap!”
Jon Myklebust
MIS Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Competency
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
“Thank you for the great training. We are already putting our heads together with our other team members (who took your training earlier) and determining how to move forward. Thank you for your dedication to EA and development of the Quick Start Toolkit. This is the only method that we have all agreed to as the right way to proceed.”
Dusk Kurtz
“Thank you so much for such insightful and informative sessions last week. It’s incredible how the total concept of EA has changed for me to be SO much more than just DoDAF/TOGAF.”
Nida Khan
“I wanted to let you know that right after the Workshop you taught, I applied the Goals Ontology immediately to the work I was doing. This really helped to assess the gaps/overlaps which, in the list format we were using, were challenging to see and even more challenging to communicate with our customers.”
Karen Newcomb
“Thank you for your effort, enthusiasm, and passion. I found the materials and course information to be invaluable, and I will be carrying the EA flag forward in our organization and in our domain.”
Kevin Rocheleau
“Thank you for all your help during the workshop last week. It was a great experience. Your expertise and storytelling from client projects and approaches were invaluable. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I learned a lot about Enterprise Architecture. I wish I had attended this workshop early in my career. The Ontology and Salad bar analogy will stick with me, and I will start applying this with the EA framework in client engagement. Thank you.”
Ram Kodi
“Sam Holcman said that his intent in the Workshop is preparing us to do Enterprise Architecture “…on Monday morning” – providing the necessary methodology, tools, templates, framework, project management work breakdown structure, and support materials. Not only was I prepared, but we launched a Quick Start Enterprise Architecture effort, as we were taught in the Workshop. I can now, after a few months of effort, say that our organization produced, and is now enabling the Enterprise Architecture we developed. The true testimonial to this Workshops effectiveness.”
Frank Thomas
“You kept talking about putting it into practice on “Monday morning”, which at the time seemed somewhat unreasonable. However, I actually was able to do just that. I was amazed. I find myself thinking in Enterprise Architecture terms now more so than ever, breaking things into definitions and specific parts and mapping it back to each cell on the framework. In fact, I was able to develop a governance model for the ministry in a manner that defined roles, responsibilities, and decision-making based on functions and sub-functions. They LOVED it!!! Understood it right away and want to extend my contract.”
Karen-Ann Moore
“The class was great, and I have already kicked off two projects, with backing from the CIO, leveraging your teachings.”
Daniel Lasher
"The coverage of the EACOE methodology for business understanding, technology planning, and change is excellent – a much-needed component in the toolkit of today’s EA professional."
Brian H. Cameron, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Center for Enterprise Architecture
Penn State University
“I found you interjections of real business situations into the delivered material a great help in understanding the concepts. I have already started to use some of the new Enterprise Architecture knowledge and strategies in my day-to-day work.”
Ron Walker
“It was really very productive. I learned and clarified a lot in my mind on architecture frameworks for an enterprise. It is terrific to hear about actual enterprise efforts with Enterprise Architecture, and bringing direct pay-offs so well.”
Jay Ramaswamy
“I really like using the EACOE tool to consolidate all my analysis with my customers. It is a quick and simple way to organize and show how their entire organization is / isn’t related. Plus, I use it to show what systems will be impacted if we have new processes and potential new tools.”
Ferdinand Schulz
“I learned so many things on the “real science” behind EA and IT in general. I look forward to learning more from you and contributing my EA experiences to the EA community.”
Josef Vargas
Certifying with EACOE delivers immediate business benefits by equipping you with actionable skills and ready-to-use deliverables that directly impact enterprise transformation and strategic alignment.
Unlike exam-based programs, EACOE’s coached, practical approach means graduates can start contributing “next Monday morning,” supporting critical initiatives and driving tangible results for their organizations.
EACOE’s Enterprise Architecture certification approaches are simple and straightforward;
1) Learn the practice of EACOE Enterprise Architecture
2) Perform the Enterprise Architecture Methodology you have learned
3) Be reviewed by the world's most experienced Enterprise Architects
4) Receive the appropriate certification level
5) ALL in the Workshop itself!
Certified Enterprise Architect
Distinguished Enterprise Architect
Senior Enterprise Architect
Enterprise Architect Fellow
This book and Methodology help business and information technology (IT) professionals and students understand why information planning is a component of business planning and why information planning requires business participation and, especially, leadership.
The detailed sections of this book help business, and IT professionals and students understand what Enterprise Architecture is, how to improve the success rate of Enterprise Architecture projects, how to increase the rate of return on all business investments—including IT—and how to deliver an Enterprise Architecture within two to seven months. The planning techniques outlined in this book have also been successfully used for business planning: they are universally effective techniques, regardless of planning domain.
Having developed, implemented, managed, and “done” more successful “Enterprise Architectures” than any other Firm - worldwide, you can ensure that investments in Certification and Consulting Services from The Enterprise Architecture Center Of Excellence (EACOE.org) administer high returns and prosperity for your Career and Organization.
The Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence (EACOE) is the independent industry-wide practitioner-based source for the purpose of advancing the implementation and understanding of Enterprise Architecture:
- To help business and information technology teams understand Enterprise Architecture;
- To help teams implement Enterprise Architectures, and
- To certify Enterprise Architects with consistent measures of success.
To this end, the mission of EACOE is to advance the professionalism, practitioning, and the base of knowledge related to Enterprise Architecture, and to provide its members with a professional exchange forum of knowledge and experience in the use, implementation, and advancement of Enterprise Architecture.
The EACOE provides the Enterprise Architect with a full complement of foundational skills and tools for success.
The Enterprise Framework™
EACOE Methodology (Overview)
The Architectures In an Enterprise
The Architect Roles In an Enterprise
We Assist Organizations in solving their business and system challenges with our unique, proven approaches. Our strengths and understandings of business problems come from the number of various engagements we have been involved in. Our experiences and expertise can offer your program team guidance, assistance, reassurance, or simply an “insurance policy” on major engagements.
