alfabet Announces Release 7.1 of planningIT for Business IT Management

January 16, 2012

Tools

Including new functionality for planning the enterprise operating model

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- alfabet, a leading provider of strategic IT planning and business IT management solutions, today announced Release 7.1 of planningIT. This new release demonstrates alfabet's commitment to ensuring IT powers business success by introducing new functionalities to reflect the maturation of the Enterprise Architecture discipline to one concerned with planning the broader enterprise operating model.

“We are pleased to see that the new release of planningIT delivers upon our vision of Business IT Management," said Erik Masing, CEO and co-founder of alfabet. “planningIT 7.1 expands IT master planning into the realms of planning the enterprise operating model and as such helps establish a better set of guidelines for business transformation, enterprise agility and operational efficiency."

The operating model illustrates the relationships between operating units and business partners. It provides direction for transforming business processes and how they are executed by IT solutions, internal or external shared services providers, or the operating units themselves. Planning can now include non-IT business support resources in order to describe and plan the operating model. The ability to work at this level of planning enables enterprises to respond more adequately through the effective integration and standardization of processes and resources across the enterprise.

Some other highlights of planningIT release 7.1 include:

Cube-based Reporting for Business Analytics leverages Microsoft® SQL Server® Analysis Services to deliver comprehensive and versatile information analytics for enterprise planning. Information from planningIT and other sources are synthesized into data cubes for multi-dimensional, interactive data analysis.
Business Support Appraisals provide further support for risk and maturity assessment. They effectively enable the evaluation of current and future needed support for business processes from the point of view of the organizations accountable for the business processes. Importance of support for the individual business processes is taken into account and Need of Action indicators are derived accordingly.
TOGAF-consistent Functional Architecture Planning introduces Solution Building Blocks for greater precision in target architecture planning. Solution planners now have a more granular and flexible means of defining different delivery modes of a business service, translating into best-matching implementations in an application, component, or standard platform.

alfabet has been recognized by industry analysts for its innovation in maturing its product offering. "Release after release, alfabet continues to have the best vision for the upcoming features to complete its existing portfolio of IT management tools.” (The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Architecture Management Suites, Q2 2011, Forrester Research, Inc. April 2011)

About alfabet

Business IT Management is the task of ensuring that IT powers business success. It combines a deep understanding of the business and its strategy with the insight, planning and execution required to evolve the IT landscape. alfabet is the only vendor providing a comprehensive software suite that supports all aspects of Business IT Management – from accurate insight into the enterprise architecture to IT planning, risk management, compliance, road-mapping and IT Program Control.

alfabet serves with its flagship product planningIT ®a global user community of more than 135,000 IT, Finance and Business professionals in more than 40 countries. Customers of alfabet include many of the Global 2000 companies across a broad range of industries in particular financial services, automotive, telecommunications, logistics, and high-tech. Founded in 1997, alfabet is operating with headquarters in Berlin, Cambridge, Mass and Singapore.

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