alfabet
Announces Release 5.1 of planningIT |
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alfabet Announces
Release 5.1 of planningIT alfabet recently announced its new Release 5.1 of planningIT, the leading product for IT Planning and Business IT Management. This new release includes significant new capabilities focused on how information is structured and visualized to appeal to many different stakeholders for deployment across a broad user base. “We realized early on in the game that collaboration, visualization and communication are key to managing the relationship between business and IT, ensuring transparency and accelerating productivity in project planning cycles,” said Erik Masing, CEO and founder of alfabet. “In this release we’ve added major enhancements in the areas of visualizations, flexibility and collaboration to address the growing communities of stakeholders within our customer organizations.” Release 5.1 highlights include fully customizable object profiles to enable each individual type of user to organize architecture information such as business capabilities, strategies, applications and information flows to best fit the task at hand. A further highlight is the Object Grid Report. planningIT’s ability to capture all of the many relationships each architecture object has makes its repository a powerhouse of information. The new “Object Grid Report” provides users with a graphical representation of relevant relationships to an individual object based on user-defined rules. Users can navigate through the graphically displayed network structure or hierarchy by simply clicking on the objects. Another new feature provides quick access to object information in a list using “chart views”. The feature allows users to directly open portfolio charts, lifecycle charts, business support map reports or information flow diagrams on any object in the list report. |
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alfabet Experiences Boom in US Market alfabet announced recently a surge in its US revenue growth resulting in its best quarter in the history of the company. The company added several leading companies in the financial services and IT sectors to its US client portfolio, which now includes some of the top 10 companies in the banking, insurance and IT sectors in the US measured by market value. alfabet’s group revenues for Q3 were up 38% compared to the same quarter last year. Some 41% of that increase was contributed by new business in the US. “Right now many companies are looking for ways to restructure their business, consolidate and reduce costs,” said Erik Masing, CEO and founder of alfabet. “CIOs are demanding better oversight of IT spending and much better alignment to business priorities. Today, CIOs want a systematic and information-driven approach to run IT. By managing portfolios of strategies, assets, technologies and opportunities, they have a clear understanding of IT as a whole and can guarantee delivery according to plan. Only then is effective management at all possible.” |
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Industry Leaders Meet in Berlin for International IT Planning and Management Event alfabet's fifth annual international planningIT eXchange event on November 17th in Berlin, Germany, will be headlined by Chad Dellinger, head of the Enterprise Architecture Group at Microsoft, Ludovic Hauduc, general manager for Microsoft and Susan Green, Head of Business Architecture Program, Bank of America. They as well as CIOs and IT executives from other leading organizations such as Munich Reinsurance, Evonik Industries, Deutsche Post DHL, RAG, Deutsche Telekom, and Zurich Financial Services will present the approaches to EA and IT Planning and Management that have made their programs successful. The event brings together IT leaders from around the globe to share best practices and how-to knowledge. Participants discover cost-effective ways to expand existing capabilities, how to align planning practices with business priorities, as well as how to strike a balance between IT risk and performance. According to Erik Masing, CEO of alfabet, “What makes this event unique is that although hosted by alfabet, it’s not by any means an alfabet sales event – it is a platform for IT leaders to share their experiences and we let them do the talking. This year we are delighted to welcome over 280 participants from all major industries representing significant trends that are driving the IT market. Attendees will get answers to questions directly from those who have implemented best practices, make valuable contacts and identify actionable next steps.” Participation at this exclusive annual event is by invitation only. Interested parties may obtain further details on the agenda and networking activities happening around planningIT eXchange 2009 at http://www.alfabet.com/exchange. |
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New Product Tour on IT Risk Management As IT tries to keep pace with the acceleration of the business environment, IT Managers have to find that delicate balance between performance and risk. They need greater insight into risk exposure to be able to understand what IT systems carry risk, what the implications of the risk are, and what kind of mitigation measures are needed. planningIT 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. As system of reference for the IT architecture, the IT Planning system is the ideal platform for defining the IT scope of the assessment, structuring the risk assessment, aggregating the results into meaningful analyses, and setting mitigation strategy. planningIT is a comprehensive solution for IT Planning and Business IT 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 Risk Management" explains the stages of a planningIT-based Risk Assessment from defining the IT scope to risk relevance scoring on to the risk portfolio and mitigation initiatives. See for yourself how planningIT delivers on its promise to make IT manageable. |
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New White Paper on
Business IT Management The failure of the IT organization in meeting business expectations does not have one single cause, but various that all need to be addressed if the situation is to be changed. First of all, management of the supplier-customer relationship between business and IT commonly lacks consistency and process. The second problem is found within IT itself. It is lack of transparency of the IT landscape and how it supports business – i.e. which processes, capabilities, locations and organizations are supported by which parts of IT. Lastly, and probably most importantly, integrated IT planning processes that ensure business and IT communicate regularly, clearly and with responsibility are missing. Business IT Management comprises a set of core capabilities to sustainably manage and ensure IT’s contribution to the business value. Essentially, Business IT Management aims at planning and monitoring the performance of IT support throughout its entire life-cycle – ensuring that business strategy and demands are completely understood, prioritized and executed on and that the costs, quality and risks to IT support are known and considered during decision-making. It is a facilitator to the team of planners, strategists, architects and portfolio managers in the CIO office enabling them to transform business wish into successful projects and reliable operations. The core capabilities of Business IT Management are:
This new white paper explores the role of each of these capabilities in meeting the challenge of supporting effective Business IT Management. |
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alfabet is please to be able to offer a complimentary conference pass to this event. 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 25,000 IT professionals in all industry segments with customers such as Credit Suisse, Münchener Rück, BMW, AXA Winterthur, Deutsche Bahn, OCBC and T-Systems. |
