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alfabet and planningIT are frequently reviewed by independent market analysis organizations. Read what they are saying in some of the latest research notes and reports below.
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alfabet Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools Magic Quadrant
alfabet, the leading software provider in strategic IT planning and management, is positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant in the "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools" report (Gartner, Inc. "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Tools" by Greta A. James, June 17, 2008).
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PlanningIT 4.0: Technology Audit 2008
As organisations adopt a more mature approach to IT planning and governance, so products like planningIT will become the mainstay tools of the CIO and his management team. The report takes a critical look at planningIT’s strengths and weaknesses and discusses ROI scenarios of this modular and flexible product.
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alfabet Tops Competitors in Comprehensive Study of Enterprise Architecture Products by Technical University of Munich
The Technical University of Munich is one of the few elite universities in Germany and is renowned for its IT program “Software Engineering for Business Information Systems.” Enterprise Architecture is a focal point of the program. The university published an initial Enterprise Architecture vendor study in 2005 and published a second study Enterprise Architecture Management Tool Survey in 2008 in April.
The report is available for general purchase in print for 450 EUR plus VAT (German excl. MwSt.) and in print and PDF for 1200 EUR plus VAT (German excl. MwSt.). For further information contact eamts@systemcartography.info.
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Forrester report: “Tooling EA Roadmaps”, January 2008
In a recent independent Forrester report on “Tooling EA Roadmaps”, alfabet’s planningIT is recognized as the “most advanced solution” in delivering road mapping capabilities. “Enterprise architects increasingly use road maps as essential graphics for technology planning and synchronizing business planning with technology strategy.” The report covers the needs, features and benefits of effective tool support for road mapping, citing planningIT.
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Cool Vendors in Enterprise Architecture, 2007
alfabet named in Gartner’s "Cool Vendors in Enterprise Architecture, 2007" report
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Customers report on best-practice EAM
alfabet customers Peter Weisbach, T-Systems, and Manfred Kroll, Deutsche Post, together with Ulrich Kalex, alfabet, discuss their IT-Business Management and EAM initiatives with Gartner analysts Robert Handler and Nick Gall during the Premier Sponsor Panel at the Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit 2007, London.
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Forrester Wave: Enterprise Architecture Tools, Q2 2007
alfabet’s planningIT is “the most representative EA tool for the change management approach to EA tools because alfabet adds, among other things, the time dimension to EA. The report describes planningIT as “an especially good fit for buyers that are looking for strategy management and planning for IT-driven transformation or project portfolio management functions coupled with EA information.”
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Applying Enterprise Architecture Management to SOA
ZapThink’s perspective on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is that SOA is essentially a set of Enterprise Architecture (EA) best practices, linking the disciplines of SOA and EA together. As organizations make progress with their SOA initiatives, they generally come to agree with this perspective. As a consequence, one of the primary benefits of the “SOA as EA” perspective is the ability to leverage EA Management (EAM) tools for SOA initiatives. Most EAM tools, however, do not have capabilities specific to SOA. planningIT from alfabet is an important exception.
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Gaining Business Benefit from Effective IT Planning
Utilizing a collaborative and integrated solution incorporating value management, enterprise architecture management, demand management, application architecture management and an integrated program portfolio management, such as alfabet's, will be essential in boosting business benefit.
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Realizing IT-Business Alignment
IT planners face a tough challenge when it comes to project tracking and investment management. In an interview with Michael Lippis from Constituent Works' Outlook Series, Dr. Ulrich Kalex, VP of Product Line Management describes how enterprises can better align IT with business strategies by implementing supporting processes and taking a data-driven approach to enterprise architecture management.