9.4.3.1Vertical

Enterprise Architecture Consulting

Firms designing enterprise IT architecture and technology roadmaps.

Market snapshot

These figures describe IT Consulting & Advisory (9.4.3), the segment that Enterprise Architecture Consulting sits within. They are not figures for Enterprise Architecture Consulting on its own.

FragmentationFragmentedEstimate

Not sized separately. Advisory work draws on the same custom-programming and systems-design classification as every other delivery segment here, so the revenue sits with the parent. Consulting is nonetheless the front door to the rest: the firm that scopes the roadmap usually wins the implementation behind it.

Business model & economics

Revenue model

Advisory and systems-design fees (often advise-and-build)

Key economics

Recurring revenue
Moderate

recurring advisory and program work

EBITDA margin
Healthy professional-services economics
Capex intensity
Low

Characteristics

  • Systems design, strategy, and technology advisory.
  • Increasingly tied to implementation (advise-and-build).
  • Generative AI a major advisory topic and disruptor.

M&A deal context

Deal activityHigh

Who’s acquiring

  • Global consultancies & IT-services majors
  • PE-backed advisory consolidators
  • Specialist & boutique acquirers

What’s driving deals

  • Digital-transformation and AI-strategy demand.
  • Strategy-plus-delivery consolidation.
  • Specialist-advisory roll-ups.

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