A unique integrated solution

Data Quality

Good data quality and confidence in the available information is essential when it comes to managing and planning IT portfolios. The reality is far from being good as Nucleus Research found out in one of their latest reports . alfabet's planningIT provides superior data quality with regards to completeness, consistency and timeliness.

• A proven language: meta model
  The meta model is the methodology to describe the IT landscape. Its richness and completeness is key to all functionality. Our meta model is the result of more than 80 man years development effort and your guarantee to benefit from the experience of our global customer base. Of course it is not a one-size-fits-all approach, but can be adjusted to your needs as-you-go.
• Seamless cooperation: data integration
  An IT planning solution does not work in isolation but exists in a complex software ecosystem. Thus our planningIT suite offers extremely powerful extraction and enrichment capabilities to leverage existing information. This simplifies and reduces the cost of deployment significantly.

Process Support

The best results are not a matter of testing them but the consequence of efficient and precise processes that guarantee good outcomes. This is why planningIT does much more than giving you deep insight into your IT landscape. It is designed to represent and support the processes it takes to manage and plan a complex IT environment.

• Automated collaboration: workflows
  In a complex environment it takes a multitude of contributors to get a complete understanding – and an efficient coordination of distributed tasks. This is what workflows do. planningIT is unique in its support of workflows. Configurable task lists ensure that processes are followed, that responsibilities are understood and that progress is traceable - the basis for good IT governance.
• Looking into the future: time & state tracking
  An IT landscape is not a static picture but a constantly changing organism. What is valid today might be a wrong assumption for tomorrow's plan. This is why planningIT in its core is designed to handle time as an additional dimension. This provides the unique ability to consistently map the current IT landscape together with all "checked-in" projects to planned future state architectures – thus facilitating roadmapping, coordination of plans and the visualization of impacts as soon as plans change.

Responsibility Governance

Ensuring IT powers business success is not the privilege of a handful of experts but a responsibility for many stakeholders inside and outside the IT organization. With regards to its enterprise-wide usage and its wide range of stakeholders planningIT reflects the individual responsibilities and provides their best possible support.

• Tailored to your needs: configurable roles
  Representing all information of a highly complex IT landscape will result in an equally complex information base. planningIT reduces this complexity for individual roles by providing only the relevant details and specific interfaces as they are needed while handling the consistency in the background.
• All you need to know: contextual visualization
  Often there is more to know about a situation than one would think of to ask. That’s why planningIT dynamically visualizes IT architecture components in their context to highlight interdependencies and to unveil hidden impacts in order to enabling well-informed decisions without undesired side-effects.