alfabet’s planningIT Top Ranked Current Offering for Enterprise Architecture Tools and IT Planning in Independent Research Firm Report

Unique Approach Makes alfabet Fastest Growing Company in This Market

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Feb.2, 2009 — alfabet Inc., a leading software provider in strategic IT planning and management, today announced that its planningIT® product is the number one Current Offering in EA Tools and is a Leader in the IT Planning category in a new independent report, “The Forrester Wave: Business Process Analysis, EA Tools, and IT Planning, Q1 2009,” Forrester Research, Inc., January 2009.

According to the report: “alfabet is clearly a thought leader in the IT planning category, and should be on the short list of anyone looking for an EA tool.”

alfabet attributes its excellent scores to its early understanding of the strategic role enterprise architecture plays in IT planning and management and its unique ability to support companies in establishing effective transformation programs.

“Our position in the Forrester Wave reflects our continued commitment to product excellence and innovation,” said Erik Masing, alfabet CEO. “This is also the basis for our ability to lead in market growth and adoption rates. 2008 was another exceptional year for us and we are well positioned to further expand our market leadership in IT planning in the year to come.”

The Forrester Wave report is based on product evaluations in August 2008 and interviewed 9 vendors and 17 user companies on IT Planning, Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Analysis capabilities.

About alfabet (www.alfabet.com)

alfabet enables companies to see, analyze, control and align IT initiatives with business priorities continuously. Its planningIT® software is unique in tightly coupling business priorities and IT returns with current and future initiatives. Competitive point solutions offer modeling or repository functions with a static view of priorities, architecture and infrastructure.  alfabet provides a holistic, integrated and collaborative approach that offers continuous transparency into how IT and business information, processes and roles are changing and need to be managed over time.

The company serves a global user community of 20,000 IT professionals in more than 40 countries in a variety of industries, including automotive, financial services, telecommunications, logistics, high-tech and others. Its customers include international corporations such as Credit Suisse, Munich Reinsurance, BMW, AXA Winterthur, Deutsche Bahn, OCBC and T-Systems. Founded in 1997, alfabet is based in Berlin with U.S. headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.

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