Drive seamless strategy-to-execution with business-IT collaboration
Technology acceleration and market shifts are driving businesses to adopt agile strategies to stay competitive. Disruptions, new regulations, and intense competition are constantly reshaping the business landscape, pushing organizations to adopt new technologies and innovate their products and business models. To stay ahead, enterprises must focus on continuous innovation, robust continuity plans, and agile delivery while balancing IT investments and financial constraints.
IT has evolved from a support function to a strategic partner, crucial for enabling digital innovation and aligning technology with business goals. IT transformation requires strong collaboration among all stakeholders involved in business and IT change to create and execute cohesive strategies that leverage technology for long-term success in a dynamic market. However, many organizations face frequent IT project delays and budget overruns due to a lack of transparency into strategy, investments and delivery plans which often hinders the flexibility needed to adapt and execute plans effectively.
Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) and Enterprise Architecture Management (EA) are key to planning and implementing successful business and operating models in the digital age. Combined, these disciplines help enterprises achieve their goals by providing the necessary transparency and enabling informed decision-making—all while considering cost, impact and risk implications. Alfabet, designed for business and IT decision-makers, seamlessly integrates business strategy planning and technology execution by linking the interdependent perspectives of IT, business, finance and risk for “whole view” analysis of how IT can support business change, streamline the IT portfolio and reduce transformational risks.
Key benefits for business and IT decision-makers
- Gain real-time transparency into your IT landscape, enabling reduced complexity, efficient operations, increased agility, and quicker, informed decision-making.
- Seamlessly align business and IT in planning digital transformation from strategy to execution, with the flexibility to adjust budgets, resources and roadmaps as strategies evolve.
- Enable continuous innovation to stay ahead of the competition and respond swiftly to new demands with enhanced business and IT agility and streamlined IT portfolios for timely, budget-aligned delivery.
- Free up funds for innovation and significantly reduce costs through optimization and rationalization.
- Minimize risks, optimize governance, and maintain operations without interruption with robust continuity plans, agile delivery methods, and enforced standards.
Alfabet has been instrumental in bridging the gap between our IT and business teams, fostering a collaborative environment where we can work together to achieve our strategic objectives and maximize the value of our technology investments.
Four actions for success
- Establish a system to adeptly navigate strategic change and digital transformation, connecting business and IT portfolios to guide you from your current state to future goals, enabling informed decisions and smooth execution.
- Capture business strategies and align demands with IT, available resources, budgets and investment prioritizations—ensuring clear communication, strategy alignment and conflict resolution.
- Streamline your IT landscape and reduce complexity and unnecessary costs. Eliminate information silos to enhance operational efficiency, lower risks and turn data into strategic insights.
- Plan and execute IT strategy with agile delivery, cost transparency, and effective governance. Ensure seamless project execution without roadmap conflicts, paving the way for future innovations.
Capabilities for continuous transformation
Alfabet offers a flexible, modular approach with standard, preconfigured SaaS options and full customization to match your budget, maturity, goals and stakeholder needs. Our “go-as-you-grow" model ensures easy extensibility and seamless integration of new capabilities as your requirements evolve.
Build the foundation for IT transformation with application and technology portfolio governance to manage alignment and strategic roadmapping, while ensuring data integrity through information portfolio governance.
Align business and IT through business capability management and project portfolio design, to ensure value delivery. Essential cost management and enterprise architecture capabilities are included.
Align IT investment with your enterprise’s business strategy through Strategic Portfolio Management. Ensure business demands are understood, prioritized and executed with effective demand management and strategy validation. Foster collaboration between business and IT for successful project execution, optimizing resource management, coordinating enterprise releases, and maximizing returns.
Align your IT landscape and business goals through Enterprise Architecture Management. Ensure effective program implementation, monitor progress, and maintain compliance with standards and policies through robust architecture governance. Achieve strategic coherence with business process planning, maintain budget control through financial management, and optimize services with effective service portfolio management.
Drive effective Lean Portfolio Management with a clear portfolio vision for strategic direction and agile transformation. Foster agile adoption through strategic and organizational change initiatives and use portfolio backlog management to prioritize work for enhanced efficiency and value delivery.
Gain visibility into the service provider ecosystem, identifying vendor dependencies using Contract Management. Streamline vendor oversight by maintaining a centralized contract library. Align contracts with business goals while ensuring operational continuity and achieve cost savings through contract optimization and consolidation for maximum value.
Ensure future readiness with Target Architecture Planning. Design the desired future state, outline long-term strategies through master planning, manage transitions with migration planning, and create detailed implementation guides with blueprinting.
Strengthen your digital business's IT backbone and ensure continuity with sustainable Risk Management. Identify and mitigate IT threats and risks to safeguard technological assets while ensuring regulatory adherence through comprehensive compliance management.
Right now, we have 10 or more marketing automation applications that fulfill very similar business requirements. We are going to consolidate that down to just 2 or 3. This will happen over a 3-year roadmap, during which costs will temporarily go up as we migrate, train, and integrate. But our costs will get reduced by 50% ultimately. And that’s just one application type.
Deliver excellence with Alfabet
- Centralized architecture repository: Powered by advanced out-of-the-box (OOTB) integration technology and easy data upload, ensuring all stakeholders have consistent knowledge for up-to-date, fact-based decision-making.
- Predefined and customizable reports: Along with extensive publication features, enabling smart, ad-hoc data visualization and analytics, supporting diverse stakeholder perspectives, easing reporting efforts, and providing actionable insights for effective enterprise-wide communication.
- User-friendly, intuitive interfaces: With in-product guidance ensure ease of use and self-service access to reporting and data analysis, no training needed to facilitate broad stakeholder inclusion.
- Collaborative smart data management: Use Alfabet’s unique Data Workbench with browser-editable data, direct in-report interactions, and data quality management to simplify data handling, eliminate silos, and establish continuous flow of information.
- Defined roles and workflows: Ensure stakeholder involvement and accountability by establishing clear responsibilities, assigning tasks, and visualizing processes and dependencies.
- Business questions: Alfabet’s unique approach to EA and SPM provides a collection of predefined, business-focused, executive-ready reports and dashboards, delivering instant decision-making information to address critical business questions.
Proven fast path to value at every stage of your journey or maturity
Alfabet provides comprehensive capabilities to plan and manage your enterprise architecture, collaborate on change with stakeholders, and enhance decision-making for your strategic portfolio.
- Start quickly with pre-configured accelerators for any conceivable use case or unlock the full potential with complete configurability in Alfabet.
- Restore data reliability and confidence in your decisions with full IT transparency.
- Get answers fast with a business-focused, user-friendly solution—no training needed, optimized for results.
- Trusted by global leaders and government agencies, with 20 years of EA & SPM expertise in driving successful business and IT transformations.
- Recognized as a leader for over a decade in leading analyst reports.
