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planningIT 4.1 Release
The new release 4.1 of planningIT for architecture-driven IT planning and management is available as of October 2008. Release 4.1 includes significant new features aimed at enhancing the user experience and supporting the ITO in effective governance. Automated Data Quality Management ensures a reliable information base for decisions on architectural changes. The product’s powerful automated workflow capabilities, first introduced in Release 4.0, have been extended to include Interactive Workflow Diagrams and Escalation Management. A new project definition framework for the product’s Program Portfolio Management module allows enterprises to define their projects according to internal conventions.
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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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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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