Upcoming Webinar

Architecting M&A: The Value of EA in Mergers & Acquisitions

In this webinar, we explore how Enterprise Architecture gives organizations the clarity to assess technology landscapes before deals close, align capabilities during integration planning, and reduce the risk of expensive surprises post-merger.

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Agenda

In this session, we'll show you how leading organizations are using EA to:

Accelerate

Due diligence by mapping technology landscapes in days, not months

Identify

Redundancy, risk, and capability gaps before integration planning begins

Build

A shared architectural language that M&A teams and IT leaders can act on

Achieve

Day 1 readiness without expensive surprises that derail most integrations

Meet the Speakers

James

James Tomkins

Principal Enterprise Architecture Researcher

James Tomkins is Principal Enterprise Architecture Researcher at Ardoq, where he studies how organizations use architecture to navigate complexity at scale. His research covers the intersection of EA practice and major transformation events - M&A integration, capability rationalization, and regulatory-driven change. James brings the evidence base that most M&A conversations lack: rigorous insight into what actually works across industries when organizations try to architect their way through a merger.

Beth

Beth Attwood

VP of Field Marketing

With 25 years in technology marketing across leading and challenger brands — including Ingram Micro, Brocade, Veeam, Snow, and Nitro Software — Beth brings authenticity, empathy, and a healthy appetite for challenging the status quo. She believes the best work happens through genuine, lasting connections with employees, partners, and customers, and is passionate about mentoring women and neurodiverse talent navigating the tech industry. As VP Field Marketing at Ardoq, Beth champions a platform that helps enterprise leaders cut through complexity — turning the chaos of digital transformation into clear, actionable insight for CIOs, CTOs, and Enterprise Architects.

Andrew

Andrew Pittendrigh

Solutions Consultant

Andrew Pittendrigh is a Solutions Consultant at Ardoq who specializes in helping enterprise organizations translate complex architectural challenges into decisions leadership can act on. He has guided clients through some of the most demanding transformation and integration programs in the field, with a focus on making EA legible to M&A stakeholders across finance, IT, and operations. Andrew brings a practitioner's clarity to a topic that is often far too abstract - and in this session, he'll show you exactly what good looks like in the platform.