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Leading Analyst Firm Recognizes alfabet’s planningIT as the Most Advanced Solution for EA Road-mapping In a new report published by independent analyst firm Forrester Research Inc., entitled “Tooling EA Road Maps,” by Henry Peyret, January 10, 2008, “Forrester recommends that customers press their existing EA tool vendors to deliver road-mapping capabilities – now.” The report finds that “unfortunately, apart from a single vendor – alfabet – enterprise architecture (EA) tool vendors are only just starting to develop their road-mapping capabilities.” When organizations road-map with alfabet’s planningIT, they are able to collaboratively plan and manage the numerous and nontrivial steps along the way. This could include strategic demands, projects, scenarios, application lifecycles and instances of technology to be adopted or retired as well as budget considerations to lead them to the always-evolving target landscape. planningIT’s unique methodology supports the automation of this process over time. Peyret writes “Architects in decentralized or federated IT organizations face the most difficulty in coordinating planning activity. They must synchronize road maps with external changes and involve more individuals from line-of-business IT units with roles like project portfolio manager, IT strategist, and business analyst. For these enterprise architects, managing the time dimension is critical to effective planning.” According to the report, “alfabet’s planningIT is the most advanced solution” that supports organizations in achieving this goal. |
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alfabet Announces
Alliance Agreement with ABeam Consulting Europe alfabet, a leading software provider in strategic IT planning and management, today announced a formal relationship with ABeam Consulting Europe B.V., a leading provider of business transformation services. Using alfabet’s planningIT® software, ABeam’s consultants and clients can more effectively plan and manage the impact of IT spending, including value management, enterprise architecture management, demand management, applications architecture management, integrated portfolio planning and more. “ABeam’s experience in guiding companies to make and manage effective IT investment has been proven in scores of engagements,” said Erik Masing, co-founder and CEO of alfabet. “We are very pleased to be associated with a leading global consultancy of ABeam’s caliber.” |
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alfabet Featured in ZapThink Podcast on the Business Side of Implementing SOA In a recently published ZapThink podcast, Dr. Uli Kalex, VP Product Line Management at alfabet discusses the relevance of classical management decisions when planning and implementing SOA. When embarking on a SOA initiative, organizations need to determine which services to invest in based on services' abilities to advance the strategic goals of the enterprise and the risk that could be incurred by their implementation. This requires a thorough planning phase for SOA efforts involving examination of business strategies, business goals and business demands and is an important part of SOA governance. Best practices in EA management as promoted by alfabet ensure proper governance and are as such applicable and beneficial to SOA planning and management. These best practices include a process-oriented, collaborative and data-driven approach to managing the planning process. The ZapThink podcast covers the issues and activities that
are relevant to the management side of SOA as opposed to the
technical side and provide the listener with a guideline for
determining which areas of the business can benefit most from
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Interview with Peter Weisbach, T-Systems, on Enterprise Architecture Management Issues For IT Service Providers it is imperative understand customer needs and to develop an efficient and adaptive IT infrastructure aimed at quickly responding to changing business conditions. In an interview with alfabet, Peter Weisbach, Executive Vice President at T-Systems shares his views on the role of Enterprise Architecture and Business Capability Management in meeting these challenges. |
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New Product Tour on Strategy Deduction and planningIT 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 tour explores topics in which planningIT is especially effective and in which our customers have realized significant benefits. alfabet's new product tour on Strategy Deduction demonstrates how planningIT supports operationalization of the business strategy by defining it down to actionable EA initiatives. It provides the means to assess each strategic initiative's contribution to achieving the corporate vision and its impact to the architecture by associating affected architecture to it. |
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alfabet Exclusive Sponsor of Gartner Enterprise Architecture Seminars in Chicago and Rome alfabet is the exclusive sponsor of the upcoming Gartner seminars „Enterprise Architecture Foundation Seminar” on March 3 – 4 in Rome, Italy and in Chicago, USA. Over two days Gartner EA experts discuss the key fundamentals of EA with CIOs, senior IT management, chief architects, directors of enterprise program management, business strategists, and business managers from some of the world's largest organizations. Adding practical experience to the agenda will be case studies from alfabet customers Roland Müller from AXA Technology Services Switzerland (Rome event) and Mark Cashman from The Hartford Financial Services Group (Chicago event). 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.
To find out about the alfabet sponsored promotional offers specified above please contact us at events@alfabetinc.com |
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Next Fast-Track Training Courses So that staff can get up to speed quickly on planningIT, alfabet offers Fast Track Training for customers and partners. The 3-day course provides a comprehensive walk-through of planningIT for staff intended to understand the full scope of the product and ensure its effective and efficient implementation into the enterprise. Course participants learn the underlying concepts of planning IT, the product architecture and navigation through its GUI, as well as the processes and activities comprising each functional module. Use cases round off the course. Course dates are:
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About ALFABET alfabet AG was established in 1997 and is the leading provider of integrated standard software for business-IT management. alfabet's software planningIT® supports enterprises in planning and managing IT like a business. The company serves a global user community of 16,000 IT professionals in all industry segments with customers such as AMB Generali, BayernLB, BP, Daimler AG, Deloitte, Deutsche Bahn and T-Systems. |
