Change enterprise architecture fast with Alfabet
See how fast your digital transformation can be with a lean, modern and pliable enterprise architecture and laser-focused investments. Alfabet shows you what IT assets you have today, how they interrelate, how to streamline the IT portfolio, and where you should invest to align with the digital business vision.
Meet our enterprise architecture management product
Streamline IT for digital success
Make an immediate impact with enterprise architecture management. You can streamline IT by defining technology standards, rationalizing technology assets and identifying technology innovations. Get digital products and services to the business faster than ever before with Alfabet enterprise architecture management.
Make sound decisions on IT transformation
Create a fluid flow of accurate, current and complete data on your IT landscape. Align the technology architecture with business objectives and processes and understand the ripple effects of change decisions. Ensure critical business processes remain intact and running on top of your IT transformation activities.
Visualize business-driven IT change
Articulate how IT can drive business strategy and actively support business success. Use more than 1,000 reports delivered out of the box or design your own as lifecycle graphs, geo-maps, business charts and more showing relationships, ranking and KPIs. Carefully calibrate enterprise architecture change across the organization using sophisticated roadmapping techniques.
Innovate using the latest technologies
Optimize the technology portfolio and ensure it is leveraged for best business results and in step with new technologies. Establish a systematic process for collecting innovative business ideas. Assess their support for business strategy, and vet them against the technology architecture to understand the effort involved in pursuing them.
Find funding for new projects
Streamline IT for digital success by identifying technologies that are unused or redundant. Uncover inefficiencies in IT support, spot inappropriate SLA levels and find candidates for outsourcing. Use enterprise architecture insights to reduce costs for licenses, operations, support and application integration, freeing up financial resources for innovation.
Improve IT governance
Define and enforce standard enterprise architecture processes and components for projects. Ensure IT standards are being used in projects and keep technology proliferation under control. Categorize technologies as to their relevance for supporting business strategy and evaluate them as to their value to the company.
See how Alfabet customers are aligning business and IT goals—and saving money in the process
The Nucleus Research Guidebook explores Bizzdesign's Alfabet solution, showcasing its ability to optimize enterprise architecture and drive digital transformation. Alfabet empowers better strategic portfolio management, informed decision-making, and alignment of technology investments with business goals.
Featured use cases for enterprise architecture
A defined enterprise architecture is a good foundation for strategic portfolio management, but the real proof of an EA practice is how well it uses the insights it presides over to support business initiatives, realize business benefits and drive business innovation. An enterprise architecture solution combined with IT portfolio management and strategic planning capabilities—as with Alfabet’s unique offering—makes for a powerhouse of things you can do to make digital business transformation faster, predictable, sustainable, and cost-efficient.
Only a broad range of tool capabilities can turn your enterprise architecture solution into a core facilitator for IT in:
- Insights and optimization
- Strategy and planning
- Delivery and execution
- Control and governance
Enterprise architecture is the foundation for your initiatives on:
Streamline the IT landscape for lower costs, reduced risk and greater agility. Sample use cases:
- Technology governance and standardization
- Application consolidation planning
- Project portfolio optimization
Shape the IT portfolio character and behavior for optimal effectiveness and to embrace new technologies. Sample use cases:
- Cloud transformation
- Digital transformation
- IT cost reduction
Sync business and IT strategies to advance quickly on business initiatives. Sample use cases:
- Strategy operationalization and value contribution analysis
- Business capability management
- Business demand management
Choose the best path forward for achieving goals with optimal use of resources. Sample use cases:
- Operating model planning
- Application landscape planning
- M&A implementation planning
Drive the company’s digital business transformation. Sample use cases:
- Bimodal strategy
- Scaling agile to enterprise scale
- Technology innovation
Deliver on strategy with holistic planning and sensible investment. Sample use cases:
- Solution architecture governance
- Investment program road mapping
- Project portfolio monitoring
Be in control of the inherent risks of transformation. Sample use cases:
- Recovery and resolution
- Application risk assessment and mitigation planning
- GDPR
Establish policies, rules, processes and monitoring to keep a steady keel while sailing forward. Sample use cases:
- Contract and vendor management
- Investment approval
- Benefits realization
