Product Services

Our product services support the complete value chain in the area of strategic IT planning and management and EAM (Enterprise Architecture Management) from methodology consultation, the roll-out of planning and EAM processes, configuration and roll-out of planningIT ® to the integration in the existing IT landscape and interface implementation. We conduct a complete analysis of your existing infrastructure, processes and tailor planningIT, our modular and role based solution to meet the needs and objectives of your organization.

IT Planning Solution Business Case

So you've done the RFP, PoC and even a pilot implementation for the new tool that's going to make planning and management of your enterprise IT landscape a lot more efficient for you, your team and many others in the organization. The only thing standing between your team and the hero-like status it will have gained for decreasing IT operating expenses, increasing IT staff productivity and freeing up budget for urgent business initiatives is a water-tight business case to get past the CFO and business peers.

This workshop will provide you with a "how-to" for calculating and demonstrating potential ROI, payback period and other relevant financial metrics to support purchase considerations for an IT Planning and Management system. Find out more.

2011 Readiness Assessment

In 2011, IT leaders will be expected to deliver quickly on business demands as opportunities for competitive gain surface out of the morass from the past crisis years. To do this, IT applications, services and infrastructures must be transformed into nimble, automated environments that can enable business initiatives as expeditiously as possible. Lack of transparency into the IT landscape and the way it supports business, silos of data, applications and projects, and non-existent or poorly governed IT management processes are inhibitors to IT agility and must be dismantled while managing the associated risks.

Based on years of experience in IT Planning and Management and its work with top IT innovators in this area, alfabet has developed a Business IT Management maturity assessment framework to help IT organizations identify strengths and weaknesses in their IT management processes and information management that could hinder goal achievement in 2011. Find out more.

Cut Risk & Save

alfabet’s Cut Risk and Save service gives chief information security officers, IT compliance managers and IT risk managers a best-practice methodology that improves risk posture by identifying the following:

• Which projects and applications are risk-relevant?
• What risks do these projects and applications actually pose?
• How can risks be effectively mitigated?
• Which mitigations have not been implemented?

alfabet guarantees results within eight weeks for a set price. Find out more.

Control IT & Save

• OPEX Reduction – which identifies and cuts excessive operating costs immediately
• CAPEX Prioritization – which prioritizes projects and identifies non-essential projects immediately.

These two new services work by assessing business domains according to strategic importance, mapping current and planned IT projects and their underlying IT requirements to business domains and then creating a defendable prioritized list of projects. This entire process is accomplished within just eight weeks, providing enterprises with the cost transparency they need in a timely manner to champion business goals.

With Control IT & Save we map IT systems and IT projects to business priorities to be able to know precisely where cost-cutting measures are most appropriate. We guarantee results within eight weeks and a fixed price for this service. Find out more.

See IT & Save

Many organizations invest as much as 15% of every IT project budget on an initial appraisal of the as-is landscape, but transparency can be achieved far more efficiently with a central and consistent inventory system. A logical IT inventory is essential to gain full visibility of the dependencies in business, resources and IT as the bedrock for maintenance of an integrated planning process for all subsequent projects. See IT & Save jump-starts IT projects by combining the commercially proven methodology of planningIT's Logical IT Inventory with professional expertise. Experienced alfabet consultants advise and coach customers on their specific project and provide a structured representation of the associated architecture data layers and their logical relationships.

With See IT & Save we capture and visually represent all relevant areas of the customer’s IT architecture in a transparent, cohesive and easy to understand manner. We guarantee a fixed price for this service. Find out more.

Show Case Services

We create a show case database with sample customer data to demonstrate the usability of planningIT focusing on the customer’s specific area of interest. Find out more.

Proof of Concept (PoC) Services

In the proof of concept we prove how planningIT can solve customer-specific problems and deliver immediate benefits. This step is conducted in conjunction with the customer using real customer data. All analysis reports and evaluations can be re-used by the customer after completion of this stage. Find out more

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