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planningIT 5.1 Release

This release includes significant new capabilities focused on how information is structured and visualized to appeal to many different stakeholders for deployment across a broad user base. 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 how critical is displayed such as information views and Explorer trees. Users can also look forward to major visualization enhancements in the areas of user cockpits, color-coded diagrams, list reports and lots more.

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Introduction to planningIT

In order to have a strategic impact and advance IT supported business plans, a solid business-IT management platform that integrates and manages processes, information, roles and technology is essential. This paper illustrates why neither modelling tools nor program portfolio management tools alone can achieve the task. It briefly introduces the concept behind planningIT’s unique integrated and collaborative approach to IT planning.

 

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Compliance Management Module

In its responsibility for ensuring compliance in the enterprise, IT has the task of scoping compliance relevant systems, eliminating any risks posed to the systems, determining responsibilities for compliance evaluation, continuous monitoring, documentation and assessment of the compliance-relevance of system changes, and reporting changes to the compliance or risk management office. It is an on-going exercise in controls assessment in the evolution of a corporation’s IT landscape. In anchoring control processes and objectives into the IT architecture, organizations can better keep up with the on-going demands for controls assessment in the evolution of a corporation’s IT landscape.

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Value Management Module

The alignment of IT investments with business strategy is essential to reveal the actual value of IT services; enable informed decision making; and improve service quality. The Value Management Module inside planningIT helps strategists to see, analyze, control and align strategic and organization goals so IT services can enhance business strategy for competitive advantage.

 

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Business Demand Management Module

Business demand management transforms demands for new services from operational business divisions into effective IT services by systematically documenting and evaluating new IT demands with their underlying business motivation. The Business Demand Management Module in planningIT helps business analysts and end users to see, analyze, control and align requests for IT services and investments with business priorities.

 

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Application Architecture Management Module

Application Architecture Management is the process of developing a clearly documented architecture solution proposal to deliver an IT service. planningIT enables architects to fully understand and work within the intricacies of the organization and thus create the optimal solution for turning requests into actionable plans. Comprehensive functionality enables analysis, evaluation, visual presentation, communication, planning and consideration of financial issues throughout the whole architecture planning process.

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Program Portfolio Management

Program portfolio management involves the definition, planning, assessment, prioritization, and budgeting of project proposals and programs. The Program Portfolio Management module in planningIT is used to assign defined projects to programs and conduct bottom up and top-down budget analysis. Decision-makers are informed of the value, cost and risk across a number of possible IT investment alternatives.

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Enterprise Architecture Management Module

Enterprise Architecture Management is essential to describe complex IT systems in terms of their business, application, information and technical layers, and to develop standards for change that enable business competitiveness and flexibility.

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Release Management

The Release Management module provides mechanisms to refine and specify strategic plans so they can be used as operational instructions for deployment and allow communication with CMDBs triggering the ITIL change management processes. It includes planning and governance of the hand-over from IT strategy to the development/build environment and supports the deployment process of applications, components and standard platforms.

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Enterprise Strategy & Master Planning

planningIT’s Enterprise Strategy and Master Planning module enhances the IT organization’s capability to align  business and IT strategy, especially in a climate of accelerating environmental and organizational change. The ESMP module provides the IT organization with a clear overview of the relevant aspects of the IT landscape in order to understand how strategic decisions will and should impact the IT’s tactics and direction over time.

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planningIT / CentraSite

In implementing advanced Service Oriented Architecture solutions, enterprises are challenged by many issues: the full integration of existing applications and systems, restructuring the organization into business domains, identifying SOA -relevant business services, composing SOA processes and measuring SOA performance. Enterprises realize that their SOA efforts will provide a significant return on investment when basic enterprise architecture and SOA governance procedures are firmly in place. The planningIT/CentraSite solution from alfabet and Software AG provides a closed-loop process for planning, designing and running SOA infrastructures.

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