ABACUS® is a powerful tool for modelling, understanding, and analysing complex enterprises across people, process and technology. Using world leading, patented technology, ABACUS® analyses the trade-offs between multiple architectures and helps enterprises achieve the optimal roadmap prior to investment.

ABACUS® is a flexible modelling tool that predicts the benefits, effectiveness and cost of alternative strategies. This is achieved through:

• Analysing an enterprise using metrics such as total cost of ownership, performance and reliability, and performing sophisticated trade-off analysis for guided decision making;
• Uniting various levels of a complex enterprise into an integrated, hierarchical, single point of truth; and
• The communication of an enterprise model and analysis using graphs, two dimensional pictures and advanced three dimensional visualisations.

For a list of the benefits of ABACUS® click here. Answers to many Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on ABACUS can be found in the Avolution Community here.

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The Standard Edition is a low-cost entry level solution providing market-leading flexibility, modelling, documentation and analysis for individual users and departments. ABACUS® Standard works in either a stand-alone mode or as a client collaborating with other clients via a shared server as part of ABACUS® Enterprise Edition.

Download a datasheet for ABACUS Standard here.
Download a high-resolution video walk-thru of ABACUS Standard here.




The Professional Add-On provides a more sophisticated solution than ABACUS® Standard for advanced users who are skilled in the art of what-if, scenario and trade-off analysis. The ABACUS® Professional Add-On provides a host of in-built evaluators (not just Performance) to provide a revolutionary whole of business (e.g. Process, People and Technology) change management solution. Total cost to own (TCO), performance, reliability, agility and many, many more metrics can be calculated using formulaic, discrete-event and Monte-Carlo techniques.  ABACUS® Professional is provided as an add-on to ABACUS® Standard.

Download a datasheet for ABACUS Professional here.
Download a high-resolution video walk-thru of ABACUS Professional here.




The Designer Add-on provides the end-user with the ability through simple 'right-clicks' in the standard User Interface (UI) to design new, or modify existing (i.e. TOGAF, Zachman, DODAF etc) ABACUS libraries to tailor a unique and re-usable framework for all users.  ABACUS® Designer is provided as an add-on to ABACUS® Standard.

Quite simply, no other tool in this market comes close to the end-user flexibility offered by ABACUS® Designer.  New libraries, frameworks, ontologies and meta-models can be created literally in minutes all through simple and intuitive 'right-clicks' in the standard UI.

Download a datasheet for ABACUS Designer here.




The Enterprise Edition provides the ability for any number of users to concurrently collaborate on any number of shared repositories. Built on top of a modern and freely available Concurrent Versioning System (CVS) approach, ABACUS® Enterprise Edition allows for truly distributed collaboration and avoids the 'lock-and-block' issues typical of other solutions.

Download a datasheet for ABACUS Enterprise Edition here.




The Publisher Add-on provides a way to publish entire models to a secure website including any 2D diagrams, 3D visualisations, metrics, charts and reports. ABACUS® Publisher is provided as an add-on to ABACUS® Standard.

Download a datasheet for ABACUS Publisher here.




The 3D Viewer is a stand-alone viewer for opening and browsing ABACUS 3D views that have been exported from ABACUS® Standard or published using ABACUS® Publisher. ABACUS® 3D Viewer is freely available and may be downloaded from here (2Mb). (Please note: If you get an error message when trying to run the ABACUS 3D Viewer then please see the note below).

An example 3D fly-thru is available from Avolution's YouTube channel here.

(Please note: If you get an error dialog with the message "ABACUS 3D has encountered a problem and needs to close" or something similar then it is most likely that you need to install the appropriate Microsoft .Net Framework and/or Microsoft DirectX. The necessary .Net Framework (22Mb) and DirectX (53Mb) are freely available and can be downloaded from here and here, respectively).

Download a sample 3D view of a 4-level Enterprise model from here.
Download a sample 3D view of a Software Architecture model from here.
Download a sample 3D view of an ITIL customer-centric model from here.
Download a sample 3D view of an ArchiMate model from here.
Download a sample 3D view of a TOGAF 8.1 model from here.
Download a sample 3D view of a Capgemini IAF 4 model from here.