Business IT Management Software facilitates collaboration.
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Featuring alfabet Publication Framework, planningIT 7.0 provides framework for creating publications using user-defined templates for flexible formatting and content of publications. Publications created via aPF are useful as decision support documents for management, as archival artefacts, and as auditor reports. Contract function describes which vendor or internal service is providing certain product or service and under which conditions, adding governance aspect to IT planning process.
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alfabet Announces Release 7.0 of PlanningIT for Business IT Management
New features for better collaboration, broader governance and greater insight
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., -- alfabet AG, a leading provider of strategic IT planning and business IT management solutions, today announced Release 7.0 of planningIT. This major new release demonstrates alfabet's commitment to ensuring IT powers business success by introducing significant new features for better collaboration with business, broader governance over IT delivery and greater insight in entire enterprise landscape planning.
"This milestone release reflects our commitment to providing our customers and partners with innovative planning solutions second to none in value, depth of scope and ease of use," said Erik Masing, CEO and Co-founder of alfabet. "I am delighted by the challenges and ideas we are receiving from our customers and proud of our team's ability to deliver to these requirements in extremely fast turnaround times."
Better collaboration with business
In many organizations, planningIT is fast becoming the central system for IT, organizational and business planning. More and more stakeholders maintain their planning data in the system and use it to collaboratively plan with others. Documents are an important means of collaboration, necessitating:
-- a flexible way to amalgamate information in planningIT so that the results are relevant to the purpose in terms of content, format, usability and attractiveness
-- a standardized procedure for creating publications to enable user self-sufficiency
-- compatibility with corporate standard software to easily collaborate with non-planningIT users.
One of the main new capabilities of Release 7.0, the alfabet Publication Framework (aPF) provides a framework for creating publications using user-defined templates for flexible formatting and content of publications. This is important as the need for IT planners and strategists to collaborate with management and business stakeholders grows. New and enhanced reporting capabilities provide even more visualization possibilities for flexible analysis, summarization and communication of enterprise planning information. The publications created via aPF are extremely useful as decision support documents for management, as archival artefacts and as auditor reports.
Broader governance over IT delivery
planningIT Release 7.0 introduces the concept of "Contract" that describes which vendor or internal service is providing a certain product or service and under which conditions, adding another governance aspect to the IT planning process. Contracts are definable for many of the planningIT classes like Vendor Product, Business Process, Application or Project. In tying contract information to IT architecture objects, IT Planners can make informed decisions on architectural change as per contractual relations with IT suppliers and service providers as well as create Service Level Agreements that are aligned with the architectural structure and thus also aligned with IT support for the business. The ties between contractual agreements and delivering architecture provides for a straight forward reconciliation of service level agreements with the actual service levels attained resulting in better cost control and improved risk mitigation.
Greater insight in entire enterprise landscape planning
Large organizations can have hundreds of IT projects slated for delivery annually. Moreover, the upgrading of several thousand existing applications and infrastructure components per year creates a high risk potential for a loss of integrity of the landscape, failure in business process support or security infringements. With the complexity that the interdependency of systems has brought into IT, the synchronization efforts of the Ops team is enormous in such circumstances. In Release 7.0, planningIT introduces Enterprise Release Management for orchestrating IT project deliveries as well as releases for applications, services and related small change requests for the entire enterprise landscape. The significant new feature greatly reduces the effort involved in the release planning and management process by linking it to project planning in a coordinated governed process.
planningIT has been recognized by industry analysts as the most innovative vendor on the market 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." (Forrester Wave Enterprise Architecture Management Suites, Henry Peyret and Tim DeGennaro, Forrester Research, April 2011)
About alfabet (www.alfabet.com)
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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For further information:alfabet AG, Jacqueline Routier, +49 (30) 880 345 166, jacqueline.routier@alfabet.com
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