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Overview
planningIT enables companies to strategically plan and manage their IT to realize business goals. This modular, standard software is unique in tightly coupling business priorities and IT deliverables with current and future initiatives. It supports every business activity in the planning process from demand to budget. planningIT comprises a Logical IT Inventory for transparency and focused modules that enable collaborative IT planning.
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Business Demand Management
module captures demands not only in the context of their technical and strategic alignment but also their associated architectural objects so that demands can be easily compared and consolidated into proposals.
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Application Architecture Management
module supports detailed analysis of as-is and target architectures and is used to develop and compare target scenarios for defined project proposals; perform gap analysis; prepare migration plans.
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Enterprise Architecture Management
module is used to define enterprise standards and guidelines and ensure standards compliance.
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Enterprise Strategy & Master Planning
module is used to analyze and assess the application portfolio (redundancies, costs and usage levels); consolidate locally developed target architectures; and create an IT master plan.
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Program Portfolio Management
module is used to assign defined projects to programs and conduct bottom up and top-down analysis of budgets and programs.
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Value Management
module is used to document and align business and IT strategies and to define and assign KPIs, roles and project evaluation criteria.
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Release Management
derives operational instructions for deployment and communication with CMDBs from approved solution plans.
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Compliance Management
is used to scope compliance-relevant systems, perform evaluations and audits and eliminate any risks posed to the systems through ongoing transformations to the IT landscape.
IT organizations use planningIT as a catalyst for transformation to an agile IT architecture that supports competitive services and delivery methods. Its information based approach supports the change management of Business- and IT Architectures in a collaborative planning process with automated full architecture lifecycle support, “what-if” scenarios, rich simulation of future states in any period of time for all Stakeholders in IT, Business and Finance.
Any member of the organization can access planningIT via web browser, while identical windows clients are also available for power users. planningIT is a role based solution that configures access rights, information views and planning tools to suit all types of users such as CIO’s, strategic planners and enterprise architects, system architects, controllers, IT managers, business analysts and end users of IT applications.
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