Ardoq’s Yr in Assessment 2022

2022 has, fairly actually, been a yr of change. We began the yr beneath COVID restrictions, with most Ardoqians working remotely and attending all occasions on-line. Quick ahead to December 2022, due to a complete rebrand, some severe Sequence D funding, and one among our busiest occasion schedules so far, the Ardoq we began the yr with has grown and altered. 

As soon as once more, we’re so pleased with our achievements by yet one more difficult yr. We wouldn’t be the place we’re at present with out our companions, clients and, in fact, our incredible group. We want to thank every Ardoqian for his or her laborious work and dedication. Sadly, we don’t have sufficient house to cowl each piece of reports however learn on for a style of the nice issues that occurred at Ardoq previously 12 months.

Erik Bakstad, co-founder and CEO

Rebranding Ardoq to Replicate Our Development and Ambition

With bold plans and continuous development, our model wanted a refresh to replicate our values and new imaginative and prescient. Getting again to “regular” post-pandemic felt like the right time to deal with our personal company-wide change venture: a full rebranding. 

Except for a shiny new brand, our rebrand meant making company-wide democratic choices – one thing we’re dedicated to serving to our clients obtain. Our core mission is bringing sensible folks collectively, and the rebranding course of embodied this. The method mirrored our strengths, development, and confidence in taking us into an thrilling new stage. 

Securing Sequence D Funding for Ardoq’s Subsequent Chapter

One among our greatest “wins” for 2022 was securing $125 million USD in Sequence D funding. This may fund Ardoq’s continued international growth as we make investments additional in our business platform, best-in-class product providing, and rising groups.

Now we’re within the excellent place to supercharge our international growth in 2023 and past. We sit up for doubling down on business excellence, all whereas persevering with to help the digital enterprise execution of organizations and enterprises all the world over.

Reside, In Particular person Occasions 

After two years of online-only conferences, getting again to the “actual world” and assembly folks in individual felt particularly good. We hit the occasions path laborious, attending conferences all around the world alongside operating our Behind the Future webinars and kickstarting a model new Amplify Webinar Series. 

Alongside six digital occasions, our group attended 13 occasions throughout the globe, together with conferences organized by Gartner, CampIT, and Axaz, in places resembling New York, Barcelona, and Frankfurt. Nearer to house, we organized six of our “Behind the Future” streaming classes, that includes talks with EA specialists from a variety of industries and areas. These on-line occasions attracted a grand complete of two,489 registrants desperate to know extra in regards to the newest and best in Enterprise Structure. Along with two of our Amplify Webinars, which garnered over 1,400 sign-ups, we proved that regardless of the return to regular post-pandemic, there’s nonetheless a wholesome urge for food for on-line gatherings and industry-sharing classes. Be a part of our mailing list to get first dibs on our occasions for 2023.

Celebrating and Connecting With Our Folks Publish-Pandemic

How higher to rejoice our development than to fly the entire firm to Iceland. To mark the top of government-enforced house workplaces and the easing of journey restrictions, we made the daring plan to prepare a company-wide meet-up of Ardoqians from the world over. All our colleagues, new and outdated, lastly had an opportunity to attach, forming bonds to hold us by our subsequent steps of development. 

This yr we celebrated a few of our workers. Øyvind Sæbø developed and launched ​​Apache TinkerPop’s official Gremlin code formatter. We additionally launched an everyday worker highlight collection to showcase a few of our superstars: Flo Orford, Software program Engineer; Pia Roland, World Director of Buyer Success; Hana Wright, Supervisor of Buyer Success, North America; and Robin Fitzhugh, Gross sales Director, UK. 

We additionally attended SaaSiest 2022, which introduced collectively the Nordic B2B SaaS neighborhood for its annual gathering. The 2-day occasion featured tactical classes, workshops, keynote addresses, and talks from throughout the SaaS {industry}, together with from our co-founder and CEO, Erik Bakstad, and our VP of Operations, Nick Peters.

Strengthening Our Gross sales 

It has been a rollercoaster yr for Ardoq’s Gross sales group. We’ve grown throughout all areas, which means extra incredible clients are beginning to use Ardoq. To help all of this development, we’ve employed a complete of 19 new Gross sales colleagues. Alongside this success, we’ve had some inside wins, with six of our Enterprise Improvement Representatives (BDRs) being promoted to Account Executives (AEs), and AEs transferring as much as Lead AEs for his or her respective territories. 

Range and Inclusion as We Scale Our Folks

As a scale-up, we’re hiring plenty of new workers, with 110 colleagues both becoming a member of in 2022 or because of begin in early 2023. The full variety of totally different nationalities at Ardoq now stands at 44. We’ve even added some new departments, like our Skilled Providers group. This group supplies help all through the shopper journey, providing our clients additional help with paid companies on high of our current buyer success group. This implies we are able to help even the most important enterprises throughout all of our core markets.

All through all this development, it’s vital for us that every one our candidates have equal possibilities and that we’ve got numerous workers. We take care to keep away from prejudice by utilizing software program that removes bias from the preliminary screening course of and offering coaching to hiring managers, so that they perceive tips on how to be inclusive. In early 2022, the Range and Inclusion Group at Ardoq recognized the necessity for in-house coaching. The Norwegian Ministry for Integration and Range (IMDi) supplied a grant, permitting us to herald exterior consultancy, Umbrella, to ship six workshops protecting quite a lot of matters from unconscious bias to inclusive recruitment. We’re taking what we’ve realized this yr to construct on for subsequent yr.

Partnering for Success

2022 has been a yr of immense development for our Partner group, with associate gross sales doubling. It was additionally a yr of rewarding in-person visits and first conferences with a few of our nice companions like Slalom, GBM, Atea, Bespoke, and ilionx – simply to call a number of. We very a lot sit up for accelerating our partnerships for extra win-wins in 2023.

Democratizing Information to Allow Engagement and Collaboration 

Our objective is to supply the absolute best software for our clients. By our releases, clients are enabled to extend engagement and collaboration with stakeholders throughout their group.

In 2022, we had a major launch, Ardoq Discover. Ardoq Uncover is a must have software for any group looking for an environment friendly strategy to help development. Uncover supplies non-EA decision-makers with an intuitive strategy to discover enterprise structure insights and contribute their area data.

Options Our Clients Love

Ardoq customers can now mechanically hyperlink their parts and references to web sites and e-mail addresses. With calculated fields, customers can effectively populate and enhance their structure repository’s information high quality.

The just-released REST API simplifies writing new integrations with Ardoq. The user-friendly API documentation takes a step-by-step strategy that guides customers by the entire setup utilizing the brand new public Developer Portal. 

The brand new Application Rationalization Use Case Guide shortens time-to-value and identifies rationalization alternatives inside 6-8 weeks. In following iterations, a strategic replace can take as little as every week. In distinction, conventional rationalization processes take months.

Higher Information Total

The up to date Relationships View improves decision-making by visualizing organizational complexity. Added capabilities embody collapsible teams, bundle relationships, reference labeling, highlighting disconnected parts, and interactive legends.

The brand new Data Lineage Use Case Guide retains rules and requirements up-to-date whereas defending information high quality.

Latest enhancements to the Engagement Module assist Enterprise Architects guarantee information is a dwelling, respiration software, simply accessible and operable by the precise stakeholders at any time. To assist Enterprise Architects keep management of EA information. Ardoq has carried out a notification system that helps them simply keep on high of all modifications.

Reports cuts out information silos and will increase belief in analytics. Enterprise architects can bypass workspace permission and invite key stakeholders to a report. 

The Season of Giving

Yearly, we mark the season of giving with a donation to our chosen charity. 2022 will likely be our fourth yr working with Sabona, supporting their efforts to make sustainable, optimistic change for Zimbabweans dwelling in Northern Matabeleland. We admire how they empower folks, working in direction of a few of The United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Their initiatives deal with well being, schooling, agriculture, and entrepreneurship.

This yr we’re donating about $40 USD for every of our 219 Ardoqians to Sabona’s education initiatives and food stations. Sabona supplies college students with 280,560 meals yearly, collaborates with native major colleges to help weak kids by paying their college tuition charges, and covers greater schooling college tuition charges whereas supporting them with mentor packages.   

A Magical Finish to the Yr

Lastly, we’re ending this yr on a excessive with the information that Ardoq has been acknowledged as a Chief within the December 2022 Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM for Enterprise Architecture Tools report for the second yr in a row. This inclusion as a Chief from a world-leading consultancy agency, Gartner®, is a becoming finish to a different busy and profitable yr. 

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See you in 2023!