About ArchRepo
What is ArchRepo?
ArchRepo is a tool for Solution Architects and project team members to help manage the complexity of modern solutions.It provides a source of truth for the solution, covering the as-is, to-be, and the transition between the two.It provides a solution model that goes beyond the traditional architecture model, enabling alignment and traceability through from business to technology.Who is behind ArchRepo?
ArchRepo is a tool developed and maintained by Grayston Ltd. - a solution architecture and development consultancy.Why build ArchRepo?
Having used various solution modelling tools and documentation tools over the decades, nothing quite managed to provide a sufficient encompassing solution.There are plenty of tools that specialise in a certain topic, but these only provide a narrow slice - or a single perspective - of the solution.Then there are corporate document repositories like Microsoft Sharepoint, that soon become an unstructured mess, where it is difficult to find things.The same can be said of wiki style tools like Atlassian Confluence and Notion. They can soon become an unrelated mess of information.ArchRepo tries to bridge that gap, enabling storage of a broad range of information, but relating it together to aid analysis and traceability.It doesn't replace specialist tools. It augments them.