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Dear Reader,
Welcome to the first edition of alfabetConnect, our entirely re-designed newsletter which will be sent out four times a year in line with the seasonal change to all our customers and other IT professionals at the forefront of Business IT Management. Over the year, this newsletter will provide you with latest information about current industry developments and trends, and hot expert insight and general news from alfabet that will hopefully be of interest to you.
In today's economic climate, it is an imperative that organizations need to invest in Business IT Management solutions to excel business transformation, better align the IT landscape with business processes and, mitigate risks. 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.
The Value of Business IT Management and associated EA initiatives is immense; and their effect can be measured in financial terms. How? This is what we explore in this newsletter and what our customers experience in their practice.
An increasing number of enterprises discover the benefits of implementing an integrated solution to plan, align, and drive their IT strategies and we see that the need for our solutions continues to increase in 2011. alfabet is a leading vendor of an integrated software suite that supports all aspects of Business IT Management – from real-time insight into the enterprise architecture to forecasting, risk management, compliance, roadmapping and execution.
We hope you enjoy reading it!
Yours sincerely,
Erik Masing
CEO
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Announcing alfabet Empower – alfabet’s enhanced partnership program
Official partner program to provide you with the maximum level of support based on your contribution, commitment, and business focus.
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Finding the Business Value in Technology
A recent posting on the planningIT User Group Online Forum noted "Most of the value and purpose of our EAM is to plug into business functions". This was posted in response to a question on how to communicate EAM and planningIT value internally, intimating that this is a subject many in EA struggle with. Indeed, many IT people are challenged in translating their shiny bells and whistles into golden business benefits. How to get from the IT benefit, "the transparency the repository delivers", to “In the past five years, we’ve saved approximately $11 million by avoiding internal development projects that we discovered were unnecessary because of analysis we performed in planningIT”?
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Measuring the Value of Business IT Management
Many IT Organizations have invested in enterprise architecture programs but the value of EA is difficult to measure. The alfabet Value Assessment can provide you with a better understanding of the €/$ value of your EA activities and helps you identify the incremental value of an enhancement of your existing EA capabilities.
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Maximizing the value of Business-IT-Management
Independent research found that organizations were most successful with planningIT if it was deployed across the enterprise and incorporated into IT decision making. That way IT investments conformed more tightly to organizational goals. We would like to discuss 5 best practices to maximize the value Business-IT-Management can bring to your organization
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