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alfabet Announces planningIT Release 5.0 including support for Microsoft Office Visio® 2007 alfabet is pleased to announce Release 5.0 of planningIT for IT planning and management. This major new release includes significant new capabilities aimed at enhancing the user experience with powerful visualization techniques and anchoring planningIT in critical issues such as IT Management Integration and Risk Management. In order to provide users of Microsoft Office Visio® 2007 the ability to visualize IT planning and management information from planningIT in a familiar viewing environment, Release 5.0 offers support for Microsoft Office Visio® 2007 diagrams. Microsoft Office Visio® 2007's flexible drawing features are the perfect complement to planningIT’s powerful IT planning capabilities. Users can drill down from a Microsoft Office Visio® 2007 diagram into the planningIT inventory to view detailed information on a planning object and explore its many different relationships to understand its impact to the IT landscape. Information integrity across the IT Management process is the target of Release 5.0's streamlined integration between IT management products and planningIT. New information exchange mechanisms support full net change capability, regular and frequent synchronization between the system of record and planningIT, and imbedding into existing Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) infrastructures and Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) solutions. planningIT now offers the possibility to assess applications, business processes, projects and other IT objects according to their degree of risk exposure, for example risk of non-compliancy to regulatory or contractual guidelines, or risk to business continuity. Those objects scoring a high degree of risk exposure according to defined enterprise standards can then be further evaluated in detail as to what the danger to the enterprise actually is – be it monetary damages, degradation in customer service, or legal jeopardy – in order to know what mitigation strategy is appropriate. Projects to mitigate risk can then be initiated and channelled through the standard IT planning process. Further new features include:
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Major Asian Bank Selects planningIT to Streamline Projects and Reduce Risks and Costs alfabet recently announced that one of Asia’s leading financial services groups has licensed alfabet’s planningIT to improve management and co-ordination of its planning processes across its IT operations world-wide. With group assets of approximately $118 billion, the bank is one of the largest financial institutions in the combined Singapore-Malaysia market, and is also one of Asia's leading financial services groups. It presides over an extensive global network of more than 470 branches and representative offices in 15 countries and territories in the Asia-Pacific region, the United States and the United Kingdom. In selecting alfabet’s planningIT, the financial giant was particularly impressed with the product’s ability to provide end-to-end transparency for complete IT landscape. planningIT will replace an in-house developed repository tool, which had become a costly drain on resources to manually maintain and keep information up-to-date. Bank stakeholders involved in project planning processes can now effectively plan and track proposed solutions in planningIT and seamlessly manage approved projects via a standard interface to CA’s Clarity PPM tool. As a result the bank will be able to gain greater insights to more effectively realign budgets, priorities and assignments as well as a true understanding of the total cost of IT ownership. |
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Upcoming alfabet Webinar "Reducing IT Operating Expenses and Prioritizing Capital Investments" Today more than ever, companies face the dilemma of having to make tough decisions on prioritizing and rationalizing IT spending - without compromising IT support or alignment with strategy. For many, the problem lies in the lack of transparency into business priorities, IT cost drivers, the project portfolio and the IT landscape. Without sufficient insight into these aspects, CapEx prioritization and OpEx management in the current climate risk jeopardizing business performance. alfabet is pleased to announce its upcoming webinar on effectively controlling IT spending and investment. The webinar will focus on how to reduce operational expense and prioritize capital expenditure to optimize IT costs without endangering future business success. Guest speaker, Hannes Rosskopf, from Credit Suisse, will provide insight into his company's efforts in achieving cost transparency and understanding the business-IT relationship to be able to drive business value in a cost-conscious fashion. Relating to today’s difficult business environment, this webinar will deliver practical advice on how to identify the true cost drivers of IT to eliminate waste. It will introduce alfabet's new Control IT and Save service for IT Finance Management. The service aims at helping companies cut costs while showing what the impact to the business will be. The webinar is free of charge and will be presented on May 19, 2009. |
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New Product Tour Addresses Stakeholder-specific IT Planning Concerns Many different stakeholders are – or should be – involved in IT Planning. Each has a contribution to make to the planning process to ensure a complete information basis for decision-making and the integrity of the planning process. Each stakeholder benefits from the planning process as well by gaining otherwise elusive insight into the IT to be able to better perform the job at hand. planningIT is a comprehensive solution for architecture-based IT planning and management and as such addresses many areas of interest for IT and business strategists and IT architects. alfabet's product tours explore topics in which planningIT is especially effective and in which our customers have realized significant benefits. This product tour "IT Planning - what's in IT for me?" explores the role of each stakeholder in the IT Planning process. See which one fits your profile and find out how planningIT delivers on its promise to make IT manageable. |
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alfabet's Annual planningIT
eXchange Conference Takes Place on November 17th alfabet alfabet will be hosting its fifth annual planningIT eXchange event on November 17th in Berlin, Germany. The conference provides IT leaders from Europe’s largest companies the opportunity to exchange best practices with industry peers and discover what strategies other companies are pursuing to deal with the issues of business change, IT/business alignment, strategic planning, IT cost management, and performance. Sparking the debate will be speakers from companies at the forefront of IT innovation. Past speakers have included CIOs, CTOs and IT leaders from BMW, Credit Suisse, T-Systems and Daimler. review of planningIT eXchange 2008 alfabet will be sponsoring several other events in the coming months. For some of these, alfabet can offer complimentary or discounted passes. Just look for the link and send us a mail (don't forget to specifiy the event and the type of pass). We look forward to seeing you at one or the other event.
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Architecture Conference 20098-10th June 2009 London, UK More information To find out about the alfabet sponsored promotional offers specified above please contact us at events@alfabet.com. |
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About ALFABET alfabet AG was established in 1997 and is the leading provider of integrated standard software for enterprise architecture-based IT planning and management. alfabet's software planningIT® supports enterprises in planning and managing IT like a business. The company serves a global user community of 20,000 IT professionals in all industry segments with customers such as Generali, The Hartford, BP, Daimler, Deloitte, Deutsche Bahn and T-Systems. |
