New planningIT 5.1 Release

alfabet is pleased to announce Release 5.1 of planningIT for Business-IT Management. This new release includes several enhancements aimed at how information is structured and visualized to appeal to many different stakeholders for deployment across a broad user base.

Release 5.1 Highlights:

Customizable Object Profile: One of planningIT’s strengths is the wealth of information on enterprise architecture and IT planning processes that are available to the wide range of users involved in business-IT management decision-making. Release 5.1 recognizes the need for each individual type of user to organize information to best fit the task at hand and allows customization of the profile – or information view -- for each object class (such as business capability, strategy, application or information flow) for any user profile.

Individualized Explorer Tree: In the same vein as the customizable object profile, Release 5.1 enables customization of Explorer trees to fit the needs of individual users. Users have full design freedom to decide which objects to display (for example, only those that are editable for a particular user) and how relationships between objects are demonstrated in the tree hierarchy.

Enhancements to Object Information Cockpits: Object Information Cockpits provide fast-path access to specific information. A cockpit is a one-page collection of the reports relevant for a specific object class, such as applications, and user profiles, such as business continuity manager. Now users can view custom reports in the cockpit scheme in addition to the broad range standard reports delivered out-of-the-box by planningIT. In addition, users can switch from one object cockpit to another simply by clicking on the desired object, reducing navigation time considerably.

Color Coded Diagrams: Release 5.1 lets users color code objects on a diagram. This makes it easier to grasp the meaning of the diagram quickly and track relevant objects. Additionally, color can be used to add another information dimension to the diagram.

Object Grid Report: planningIT’s ability to capture all of the many relationships each architecture object has makes its repository a powerhouse of information. Release 5.1 improves on the product’s already strong offering of information visualization with its new “Object Grid Report,” a graphical representation of relevant relationships to an individual object. Users can navigate through a network structure or hierarchy by simply clicking on the objects.

Enhanced Functionality in List Reports: To enable faster comprehension of the information contained in list reports, Release 5.1 offers several new features for tabular reports. Users can group list items in their hierarchy and open and close groups for ease in working with the list information. In order to provide quick access to information on an object in the list, reports now offer “chart views” that allow users to open portfolio charts, lifecycle charts, business support map reports or information flow diagrams about objects listed in report tables.

Release 5.1 of planningIT is available immediately on a subscription basis or perpetual license model.

For more information download the planningIT 5.1 datasheet or call a consultant.

For notes on previous releases visit release archive.