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Positioned highest in
execution for Alfabet solution
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Digitalization
driving awareness for IIPA
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IIPA combined with Enterprise Architecture (EA) helps align portfolio
decisions with IT strategy
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Software AG only
vendor positioned as a Leader in both IIPA and EA Magic Quadrants
Software AG today announced
that Gartner, Inc., a leading industry analyst firm, has named Software AG a
Leader in its ‘Magic Quadrant for Integrated IT Portfolio Analysis
Applications’ report (published on November 30, 2015*) for its Alfabet
solution. Alfabet offers management and governance capabilities across multiple
IT portfolios to provide the CIO and other leaders with the information they
need in order to make broad, directional and strategic decisions. It enhances
communication and collaboration among different IT portfolio managers and helps
them understand the symbiotic relationships between the infrastructure
portfolio, application portfolio, project portfolio, finance and risk.
Software AG’s Alfabet IT Planning and Portfolio Management platform was
evaluated among 9 different software vendors on 15 criteria. According to
Gartner, “Leading products aggressively strive to integrate the planned
execution of change to the IT footprint in response to the needs of the
business, using portfolio management as a foundation. These products can
analyze the cost and progress of the IT response to the business and IT
strategy, and deliver the right perspectives, analysis, and impact views
required by CIOs, IT portfolio managers, and other business leaders.”
Dr. Wolfram Jost, Chief Technology Officer and member
of the Board, Software AG, said: “We believe the positioning in the Gartner
Magic Quadrant is evidence of a thorough understanding of the needs of this
growing market. We feel Software AG’s improved movement upwards in this market
clearly demonstrates our ability to keep pace with the CIO’s needs to
effectively manage the complexity involved in transforming to a digital
enterprise.”
EA is an essential component of IT portfolio
decision-making
As IT organizations mature in their ability to manage
their application, technology, and project portfolios, they see the
interdependencies among these portfolios. They realize that an integrated view
is necessary in order to assess the across-the-board requirements for
transformation to a digital business. Understanding these and the
inter-portfolio impact of proposed change to the IT landscape helps guide
investment decisions and avoids potentially damaging cost-cutting measures. EA
provides IIPA with the insight into the IT landscape. The Gartner report
states: “Identifying the points of intersection between elements in these
portfolios and "desired state" models created from enterprise
architecture (EA) helps IT align the decisions it makes in any IT portfolio
with current IT strategy.” Software AG was also positioned as a Leader in
Gartner’s recent “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools” (published:
November 4, 2015)
New Alfabet product release enables IT portfolio management in the office
or on the road
Alfabet follows Software AG’s aggressive 6-month
release cycle. Its recent release 9.9 (GA October 2015) provides planning and
management of the IT portfolio on mobile devices, on-premises and in the cloud
acknowledging an ever-more mobile workforce and the breadth of stakeholders
involved in business and IT transformation. New release features facilitate the
planning of cloud-based solutions and help protect against the threats posed by
today’s open computing environments.
*Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Integrated IT Portfolio
Analysis Applications”, published: 30 November 2015, by Daniel B. Stang, Jim
Duggan
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