Software AG Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management

Software AG Alfabet IT Planning & Portfolio Management is a platform of joint work which helps heads of business and IT it is better to understand features of corporate IT infrastructure. Alfabet helps at strategic planning of IT and also offers means for effective and productive strategy implementation of the company thanks to synchronization of management business and IT projects. This solution guarantees quick implementation of business initiatives with lower costs and provides to the management of business divisions and IT departments precise step-by-step plans for transformation of digital business processes. In response to the growing requirement of the organizations for cloud computing of Software AG provided also in 2015 the product Alfabet Cloud.

PlanningIT is an effective remedy of modeling of an enterprise architecture which provides visualization, control and the analysis of development of IT according to business priorities. This tool allows to estimate in a complex architectural components of business, applications, information, technology infrastructure for decision support on change of an enterprise architecture for the purpose of increase in its efficiency and cost reduction.

More than 40,000 people almost from 40 countries of the world are users of planningIT in automotive industry, telecommunications, logistics, in the field of financial services, high technologies and so forth. Among users of planningIT there are such companies as DaimlerChrysler, Credit Suisse, Munich Re, BMW, AXA Winterthur, Deutsche Bahn, OCBC and T-Systems.

Need of use of this product in Russia, relevance of creation of a transparent enterprise architecture according to forecasts of analysts, will increase. One of premises for implementation of management systems for an enterprise architecture in the companies and the organizations of a public sector in Russia is "scrappy" automation of separate processes and the development of IT infrastructure which is dragged out on time, the involving difficulties on management of it. Solutions on management of an enterprise architecture allow to estimate expediency of use of the different systems in terms of their usefulness for business: avoid duplication of automation of the same activity in the different systems that promotes optimization of IT infrastructure, reasonable investment into it.

Forrester Research (April, 2015): The Alfabet platform became the only product from mentioned in the report, received the greatest possible assessment by such parameters as "growth rates in the market of SaaS services for portfolio management" and "deployment options". In the report of "The Forrester Wave" it is noted: "Leaders have product development strategy which emphasizes paramount value of portfolio management in achievement of success. Distinctive feature of leaders is existence of the precise step-by-step plan of implementation including considerable investments into the innovative solutions which are used by advanced technologies to make composite functions of the analysis exclusively convenient for users". In the report of Forrester it is also said that thanks to "identification both technology, and business opportunities of the solution for management of an enterprise architecture (EAMS), such as, for example, offered by Software AG company, allow specialists in an enterprise architecture to estimate and define capability of the companies to achieve the goals". Results of the report serve as one more confirmation of leadership of Software AG in terms of satisfaction of "requirements of the companies for which powerful tools of a market and financial analysis are necessary".