alfabet Continues To Make Strong Headway Despite Slumped IT
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alfabet Continues To Make Strong Headway Despite Slumped IT Market alfabet recently announced excellent end of year financial results
for 2009 - once again solidifying its leadership in the Business
IT Management market. Revenue was up by 20% in 2009 v’s 2008
and EBITDA grew by 190% in the same period.
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Upcoming Webinar with Forrester Research: "Orchestrating Enterprise Transformation with IT Roadmapping" alfabet is pleased to announce its upcoming webinar "Orchestrating Enterprise Transformation with IT Roadmapping" featuring independent research analyst, Jeff Scott, of Forrester Research. The webinar will be hosted by Dr. Ulrich Kalex, VP Product Line Management at alfabet. As essential as IT Roadmapping is for coordinating the various plans and disparate parts of the enterprise, many IT organizations still struggle with finding the right type, scope and visualization to keep everyone relevant to the success of business and IT programs informed, involved and in synch. They want to understand how to:
Join us on February 25, 2010 at 11 am EST to learn how to map and master the speed, required resources and milestones of enterprise change. |
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alfabet Study Confirms Business IT Management as Strategic Lever for Agile and Cost-efficient IT Support for the Business According to a recent study conducted by alfabet at its international planningIT eXchange event in November 2009 in Berlin, Germany, enterprises say that better collaboration between business and IT is the most critical issue their IT organizations face. Based upon 100 survey responses received from European and North American attendees, better collaboration was cited by 59% of respondents, followed by cost reduction (50%) and consolidating the application landscape (41%). When asked where Business IT Management generates the greatest value, 66% selected standardization of IT processes, technologies and the application landscape, followed by shortened and/or safer planning and decision-making processes (46%) and identifying synergies between parallel running projects (41%). Among other leading responses, some 34% identified both IT cost reductions and improved risk management due to greater transparency. |
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alfabet Featured in Outlook Series Podcast on IT Financial Management Capturing IT costs merely as general overhead keeps the enterprise from truly understanding the business contribution made by IT. IT Finance Managers need the means to assess IT spending as it relates to specific business initiatives. By mapping costs to architectural elements and then aggregating them in various combinations that are relevant to the business, IT can achieve a clear understanding of those costs. In an interview with Michael Lippis from Constituent Works' Outlook Series, Dr. Ulrich Kalex, VP of Product Line Management at alfabet, discusses how IT Financial Management relates to EAM and the role EAM plays in IT Financial Management. The interview covers issues such as:
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Featured Topic "Business
IT Management" in ebiz Online Magazine The tales about IT project failure are legendary. But the responsibility does not solely lie with IT. Business is often not able to articulate its needs and is often not aware of its own misaligned operating models. Communication between Business and IT is hindered by Business' perception that IT doesn't understand business strategy and that IT is not transparent concerning the risks and costs of IT services. Business IT Management aims at establishing consistency and process
in managing the Business/IT partnership. This involves installing
a common terminology and road-mapping to synchronize business and
IT activities. It promotes transparency of the IT landscape so that
IT is able to act quickly on business demands. Further, Business-IT
Management is concerned with analyzing the costs and risks associated
with IT services so that Business can become a partner in IT investment
planning. First and foremost Business IT Management integrates decision-making
processes happening in all parts of the organization to create a
coordinated effort towards enterprise success. In an article in ebiz, Erik Masing, co-founder and CEO of alfabet , elaborates on the drivers behind the new Business IT Management trend and the capabilities required to perform it effectively. |
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alfabet Announces Inaugural User Group Meeting Following in the footsteps of its first Customer Executive Council (CEC) held mid-2009 as a means to provide alfabet and top EA executives insight into trends influencing the direction of strategic IT Planning, alfabet is pleased to announce the first planningIT User Group meeting planned for May 6th in Berlin, Germany. The meeting will bring together experts in the planningIT user community to share experiences and provide feedback to alfabet on priority product requirements. As with the CEC, the planningIT user group brings together organizations on the leading edge of IT Planning and Management who are interested in playing a leading role in shaping the future of strategic IT Planning. The user group meeting will be co-located with alfabet’s next Special Interest Group meeting which will be taking a deep dive into a topic of current market interest. Participation is by invitation only. |
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Webinar "IT Planning That Works – 3 Resolutions to make your EA team successful in 2010“ now on alfabet’s website alfabet’s highly successful webinar on the three resolutions that will keep an EA program thriving can now be viewed on our website. The webinar describes sustainable methods for engaging business in discussion on business strategy and collaborative planning of IT support for accomplishing strategy. Learn how to successfully demonstrate your EA team’s capability and agility in driving business initiatives such as consolidation after an M&A, portfolio optimization or effective governance forward. Find out in this webinar which processes contribute most to data quality and how to secure stakeholder involvement. |
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alfabet is pleased to announce its participation as Gold Sponsor at the upcoming Forrester Enterprise Architecture Forum from March 2-3 in London. Under the event motto "Leveraging Architecture for Business Impact", the forum will focus on the questions of how EA can ensure that business and IT work together on business transformation, what "lens" EA needs to provide to enable business and IT to collaboratively evaluate new technologies and, importantly, how EA leaders should market their relevance to business and IT priorities? Three separate tracks will address 1) Enterprise Business Architecture, 2) Boosting EA's strategic value and 3) Key technology trends EAs should watch alfabet will have a major presence at the event and is pleased
to have Dr. Karsten Schweichhart, Vice President of Enterprise Architecture
at Deutsche Telekom Group, speak on alfabet's behalf on the topic
of "Trust Your IT! Group-wide IT Transparency at Deutsche Telekom“.
His presentation will describe how the Deutsche Telekom Group achieved
80% overall transparency of its Enterprise Architecture in just
6 weeks and covers the drivers, necessary processes and critical
success factors in EA data transparency. alfabet will be sponsoring several other events in the coming months.
alfabet can offer discounted conference passes for all of these events. Click here for more information: conference passes. |
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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 40,000 IT professionals in all industry segments with customers such as Credit Suisse, Munich Re, BMW, AXA Winterthur, Deutsche Bahn, OCBC and T-Systems. |
