As a group, the pilot programme favoured the BiZZdesign Architect tool, although initially the project team had some reservations about it. In particular, despite an ostensible objectivity, the presentation to the JISC pilot programme workshops was somewhat sales-orientated; the ‘requirements of an EA tool’ seemed to map too easily onto the functionality of BiZZdesign Architect, which moreover didn’t seem to have drawbacks, only strengths. In addition, while the ‘how to choose a tool’ process described in BiZZdesign’s presentation made very good sense, it would have taken months to follow the process in sufficient detail, and so it was scarcely practical for the projects in the JISC programme. However, the LEAP project at Liverpool John Moores University had already bought BiZZdesign Architect and reported positive experiences of it and the tool had also come out on top in a review of EA tools carried out by SURF, and had been widely adopted in HE in the Netherlands. Once the decision to buy in Architect had been taken collectively by the projects in the programme, JISC organised a training course which was given by the BiZZdesign team and which also generated positive responses. A particular advantage of BiZZdesign Architect, in relation to the assessment criteria listed above, is the fact that it uses a standard (non-proprietary) language and conceptual framework (namely ArchiMate), and that there is an open XML-based