Will Enterprise Architecture Exchange Tools Emerge?

Many organizations find that they can't avoid choosing several tools to satisfy their wide range of enterprise architecture (EA) stakeholders. These enterprises can only maintain a single version of the truth for EA by consolidating and exchanging data and metadata between the different tools they've chosen. The major EA tools have their own ETL-like tool to develop the interfaces and allow model transformation, but a small set of vendors also provide independent EA exchange tools. The existing tools provide tactical value — at a low cost — but they will never represent the strategic metadata exchange infrastructure that the enterprises truly need.