Dotwork vs Orbus Infinity
A cloud enterprise architecture and transformation platform from Orbus Software, built closely around Microsoft 365.
OrbusInfinity is an architecture repository and transformation platform that goes deep on the application estate and works closely with Microsoft 365. Dotwork connects the same applications and capabilities to investments, allocated cost, labor and AI on one Enterprise Operating Model.
At a glance
Enterprise architecture
Orbus Infinity
Operating model
Dotwork
Overlaps with
Dotwork runs these and 15 more on one model.
Usually runs alongside Dotwork
Dotwork connects to it and puts its data in the context of the whole enterprise.
The short version
What each is built for.
Orbus Infinity
OrbusInfinity is the cloud enterprise architecture and transformation platform from Orbus Software. It provides an architecture repository with TOGAF and ArchiMate content, application portfolio management, capability maps, lifecycle and interface views, and integration with Microsoft 365, Visio, Teams, Power BI and Azure. It has added a natural-language interface and AI governance features for cataloging AI assets.
- Running an enterprise architecture repository inside a Microsoft-centered workplace
- Managing the application portfolio, technology lifecycle and obsolescence
- Mapping capabilities, interfaces and dependencies with TOGAF and ArchiMate content
- Bringing architecture into Visio, Teams and Power BI where people already work
Dotwork
Dotwork is an AI-native enterprise operating platform built on the Enterprise Operating Model: one live, graph-based model that connects strategy, capital, work, technology and AI across the enterprise. Alongside an architecture repository, Dotwork connects the same applications and capabilities to investments, allocated cost and labor.
- Showing what each application and capability costs, based on allocated cost
- Linking architecture to the strategy, investments and initiatives that fund change
- Placing technical debt, standards and AI assets on the same model as cost and portfolio
- Giving architecture, finance and portfolio leaders one shared set of records
The core difference
How Dotwork and Orbus Infinity approach the problem.
OrbusInfinity is built to maintain the architecture repository and put it in front of people through the Microsoft tools they already use. Dotwork starts from a reference Enterprise Operating Model in which architecture is one domain beside strategy, portfolio, cost, labor and AI.
Context
OrbusInfinity organizes context around repository objects and their views, closely tied to Microsoft 365. Dotwork organizes context around connected operating records, so an application links to its capabilities, the cost allocated to it and the initiatives changing it.
Decisions
OrbusInfinity supports architecture and portfolio decisions such as rationalization and lifecycle planning. Dotwork supports decisions that cross domains, such as whether funding a change is worth the cost it removes from a capability.
Time
OrbusInfinity tracks lifecycle dates and staged architecture states. Dotwork holds plans, investments and cost history on the same records, so architecture change can be read against budget periods.
Change
OrbusInfinity helps architects plan and communicate the target architecture. Dotwork shows how architecture change connects to the funded work, the cost base and the controls it affects.
Architecture and data model
Side by side.
Both model applications and capabilities as connected records. OrbusInfinity goes deeper inside the architecture estate and meets people inside Microsoft tools. Dotwork carries the same records into allocated cost, funding, labor and AI so architecture can be read with its financial context.
| Dimension | Orbus Infinity | Dotwork |
|---|---|---|
| Core objects | An architecture repository of applications, capabilities, technologies, interfaces and related objects | Connected operating model records: strategy, investments, capabilities, applications, teams, cost and AI assets |
| Application cost | Cost fields on application records, maintained by users or integrations | Cost allocated from finance systems onto each application, with the share left unallocated shown alongside |
| Lifecycle and interfaces | Deep lifecycle, obsolescence and interface views across the estate | Basic lifecycle and interface tracking on application records |
| Workplace integration | Close integration with Microsoft 365, Visio, Teams, Power BI and Azure | Its own web application, plus APIs and an MCP server for outside AI tools |
| Link to funding | IT portfolio views and staged states within the architecture repository | Capabilities and applications link to the investments and initiatives that change them, with strategy above |
| Starting point | A configurable repository metamodel with TOGAF and ArchiMate content | A reference Enterprise Operating Model, shaped to the customer |
The role of AI
Where the AI gets its context.
Both apply AI to their own models and both bring AI assets into view. Orbus does so within the architecture repository, while Dotwork places AI assets beside their spend, owners and the capabilities they support on a model that also carries cost and funding.
Orbus Infinity
Orbus offers a natural-language interface over the architecture repository and an agentic AI framework, and it has added AI governance features that catalog AI assets and assess their risk within the architecture.
Dotwork
Dotwork includes an assistant that answers questions across the whole model and agents that can create and update Dotwork records, with optional human review. An MCP server, enabled per site, makes the same model available to outside AI tools. Because the model spans strategy, cost, architecture, labor and AI, a single question can cross those domains.
A fair comparison
Where Orbus Infinity is strong — and where Dotwork is different.
Where Orbus Infinity is strong
- A full architecture repository with strong application inventory, portfolio disposition and fact sheets
- Deep technology lifecycle, obsolescence and interface views across the estate
- Close integration with Microsoft 365, Visio, Teams, Power BI and Azure
- TOGAF and ArchiMate content available from the start
- AI governance features that catalog AI assets within the architecture
Where Dotwork is different
- Shows the cost allocated to each application and capability from finance systems, including the share that did not allocate
- Connects capabilities and applications to the investments and initiatives that fund them, with strategy above
- Shows the labor working on each application and capability beside its cost
- Places AI assets beside their spend and the capabilities they support on the same cost model
- Starts from a reference Enterprise Operating Model that spans more than architecture
Choosing
Which fits your situation.
Choose Orbus Infinity when
- You need a full architecture repository with lifecycle and interface depth
- Your organization works in Microsoft 365, Visio and Power BI and wants architecture there
- You want TOGAF and ArchiMate content ready to use
Enterprise architecture teams that want a full repository working inside a Microsoft 365 environment, with depth on application portfolio, lifecycle and interfaces.
Choose Dotwork when
- You need to know what each application and capability costs, based on allocated cost
- Architecture decisions must be weighed against funding, strategy and planning
- You want architecture, cost, labor and AI on one shared model
Organizations where architecture decisions depend on cost and funding, and where CIO, CFO and portfolio leaders want one model connecting applications and capabilities to investments, allocated cost and AI.
The bottom line
Choose Dotwork when you want to connect the enterprise across systems and silos — with a lower total cost of ownership.
One operating model across strategy, capital, work, technology and AI, instead of another tool to integrate, reconcile and maintain alongside Orbus Infinity.
FAQ
Questions buyers ask.
Can OrbusInfinity and Dotwork be used together?+
Yes. OrbusInfinity stays the architecture repository, and its applications and capabilities are brought into Dotwork, where they are connected to investments, allocated cost, labor and AI.
Does Dotwork track application lifecycle and interfaces?+
Yes, at a basic level. OrbusInfinity is deeper on lifecycle, obsolescence and interface views, so architecture teams that need that depth usually keep it for that work.
Both products cover AI governance. How do they differ?+
OrbusInfinity catalogs AI assets and assesses their risk within the architecture repository. Dotwork places AI assets beside their owners, findings, spend and the capabilities they support, on the same model as the rest of technology cost.
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