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Australian National University Implements alfabet's planningIT alfabet recently announced that the Australian National University (ANU) has implemented its planningIT® solution in order to assist with improvements in Business and IT processes. ANU was established to advance the areas of learning and research in Australia. Since its founding in 1946, the University has built a reputation that ranks it as one of the world’s leading universities, with a vision to advance intellectual and creative capacity through broad-based research and research-led education. The Information Services (IS) organization is responsible for managing a demand portfolio supporting University strategic plans and delivering project implementation across the Colleges and Service Divisions. To reach the long-term strategic goals of achieving a rationalized information service landscape and master level data management, the University has identified coordinated planning, a greater strategic alliance between the IS function and the overall goals of the University, and transparency across the IS landscape as major areas of focus. After a thorough evaluation, the ANU selected alfabet’s planningIT to help achieve its goals. planningIT is being deployed to establish an end-to-end process to enable transparent and systematic collaboration across the University. The University expects to be able to more clearly:
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Upcoming Webinar with Forrester Research: "Driving Enterprise Value with Mature Application Portfolio Management" alfabet is pleased to announce its upcoming webinar " Driving Enterprise Value with Mature Application Portfolio Management" featuring independent research analyst, Gene Leganza, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. The webinar will be hosted by Dr. Ulrich Kalex, VP Product Line Management at alfabet. Business relies on IT to ensure that existing critical applications supporting core processes run smoothly. It also relies on IT's ability to support the introduction of new business models, creative products and improved processes to gain competitive advantage. As such, business is prepared to pay the bill for application delivery and operations, but in return expects applications that are aligned to its needs, are reliable, cost-effective and, most importantly, flexible to supporting changes in the business. To deliver on this a well-functioning APM discipline is required. Join us on September 22, 2010 at 11 am EST to hear practical advice on improving the maturity level of application portfolio management including the roles, responsibilities and processes involved and also how to achieve quantitatively managed portfolios with the involvement of the business. |
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Nucleus Research Names alfabet Customer Credit Suisse a 2010 ROI Award Winner alfabet's customer Credit Suisse was recently named 2010 ROI Award winner by Nucleus Research. Credit Suisse was honored for its innovative work, using alfabet’s planningIT to reduce millions of dollars of IT costs by avoiding unnecessary development projects, retiring redundant software and reducing software-related costs. Nucleus Research’s annual ROI Awards recognize end-user organizations whose deployments of specific IT solutions have achieved positive bottom-line financial and business results. Credit Suisse was one of Nucleus’ 10 winners, among more than 300 submissions. According to Hannes Rosskopf, Director Global CTO, Tools & Processes, Credit Suisse, “Our goals were to optimize IT investments and maximize the effectiveness of spend across the IT portfolio. We also sought to modernize our application portfolio and substitute legacy systems with standard systems.” Through best practices in implementing planningIT, Credit Suisse has achieved an ROI of 210% and payback period of 6 months. The case study is available for download on alfabet's website. | |||
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New Case Studies on ROI of Implementing planningIT Nucleus Research has recently published two new case studies on the ROI two companies have achieved with their planningIT implementation. The first case study is on Credit Suisse and describes how the company has achieved an ROI of 210% and payback period of 6 months. (See previous article) The second case study involves a large European insurance company who was able to achieve an ROI of 134% and a payback period of 9 months. The company uses alfabet’s planningIT to avoid unnecessary IT investments and improve productivity of architects, IT operations staff, and application owners. The company's enterprise architecture had become vast, complex, and difficult to manage cost-effectively. Some of the obstacles to better IT management included an unwieldy number of applications and very heterogeneous IT landscape, independently operating business units which led to a high level of redundancy, and inconsistent, poorly governed documentation on assets. The consequence of this, so the report, was that "In order to more cost-effectively manage its enterprise architecture, senior management decided to centralize the documentation of IT assets as well as the decision-making related to all IT investments. In order to achieve this goal, the company wanted to implement an application that would both serve as a technical repository for all the components in the enterprise architecture and bring more uniformity and governance to IT-related decision-making." Adopting planningIT for this task enabled the company to lower its IT costs and improve productivity. Benefits from the application include improved productivity of IT staff that can now more rapidly locate and use enterprise architecture-related data, which improves productivity and shortens project cycle times. Further staff could be redeployed. Also, the report finds that planningIT reduces project costs by enabling people to identify the least expensive resources for fulfilling business requirements, find opportunities to reuse assets, and converge projects with similar requirements. The report calculates costs and benefits over a three-year time period since implementation and describes some of the company's best practices that made the deployment so successful. | |||
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planningIT eXchange Event:
Registration now open As previously announced, alfabet will be hosting its sixth annual planningIT eXchange event on November 16th in Berlin, Germany. The conference provides IT leaders from leading international companies the opportunity to exchange best practices with industry peers and discover what strategies other companies are pursuing to deal with today's most critical Business-IT Management issues. Topics covered will include strategic IT planning, business-driven IT transformation, IT consolidation, Business/IT alignment, value-driven enterprise architecture management and more. This year promises to be even bigger and better than ever with a top line of speakers. In addition to the conference, alfabet will be offering two expert workshops on Business Capability Management and The Value of Business IT Management on the day before the event. This prestigious event is sponsored by alfabet and is by invitation only. To find out more and request an invitation please contact Lena von Senden, Event Manager at alfabet: email lena.vonsenden@alfabet.com or visit ww.alfabet.com/exchange. | |||
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UK EA Interest Group to Meet September 2nd in London Following the success of the UK EA Interest Group held in May of this year, the next event will be held on September 2 in London. The evening event provides an informal platform for EA professionals to explore EA-related issues, debate current topics and find answers to the daily challenges they're confronted with. This event will welcome Sally Bean as guest speaker. Sally is an independent Enterprise Architecture consultant. She advises large organizations in the private and public sector on how to develop their EA capability and embed EA approaches into their ways of working. She has over 15 years experience in the field, with 10 years as a member of the EA team in British Airways. Sally is particularly interested in Systems Thinking and Complexity approaches and their applicability to enterprise architecture. This event is by invitation only. To find out more and request an invitation please contact Lena von Senden, Event Manager at alfabet: email lena.vonsenden@alfabet.com or visit www.alfabet.com/events/ukig/eventoverview. | |||
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alfabet Offers ROI Business
Case Workshop Challenging the notion that IT can‘t express value in financial metrics, alfabet is offering a 1-day workshop for creating a valid business case for an IT planning and management solution. In two half-day sessions the workshop covers:
The individualized workshop is based on the participating company's data. It results in a clear-cut financial analysis showing annual ROI, payback period, average annual benefit and average annual TCO over a three-year horizon. | |||
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alfabet offers 2011
Readiness Assessment Workshop Operational flexibility and how quickly businesses can seize opportunity is imperative for market success. As providers of IT services, IT organizations must transform their IT applications, services and infrastructures into nimble, automated environments that can enable business initiatives as quickly as possible. Maturity of management processes and information management is pre-requisite to this. alfabet works with companies to help them grow their IT maturity. Our customers can map out the path to an efficient and agile IT organization, and have defined structures, processes and KPI‘s in place that ensure that:
Against this backdrop, alfabet has created an assessment framework that can help IT organizations identify where it can improve in order to change quickly and adapt easily to business requirements and thus contribute to shortening business innovation cycles. The 2011 Readiness Assessment Workshop examines the five IT core competencies essential for effective and efficient IT transformation. These are Business Relationship Management, Program Portfolio Management, IT Financial Management, IT Risk Management and Enterprise Architecture Management. Results are compared with vertical industry averages and top performance indicators. Action items based on best practices from alfabet's customer base are recommended. | |||
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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. | ||||
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