Managing Complexity, Implementing Standards, Adding Value
Strategic IT Management with alfabet

The Problem isn't the amount spent on IT - it's not knowing the cause and effect

CIOs concede that approximately 20% of IT costs can be saved. Management consultants and analysts believe this amount to be even higher. But knowing which 20% to save and what the effects on the business are can be problematic. This is due to the fact that the value contribution of IT to the overall business is difficult to quantify. While the CIO probably has an intuitive feel for the value contribution, this information is already lost on the CIO's management colleagues.

Regaining control of the IT landscape

Generally, two-thirds of the IT budget is spent on the maintenance and operation of the existing IT landscape. An indiscriminant budget cut of 20%, proportionally distributed through-out the organization, could quickly lead to the deterioration of critical business processes that require existing and new applications to function.

The complexity of IT landscapes cannot be reduced. In fact, new platform strategies of established software providers, the introduction of web services, and individual solutions that continue to be necessary, all conspire to increase the complexity of the IT landscape. Therefore, control of this complex environment means, above all, the need to establish an efficient and consistent information management system.

As a matter of fact, the information management of IT has become an important discipline having strategic relevance. Nowadays, information management requires its own supporting methodical framework and tools that enable true collaboration across functional boundaries. Information management must bring together the company's architects of the IT and business landscape and set them on the difficult path of successfully turning strategies into action.

The new alfabet software solution for strategic IT management (SITM) supports the IT management of a company's business units in the operationalization of strategic IT goals. It guarantees efficient communication between IT departments and IT service providers as well as the consolidation of relevant enterprise-wide information for the CIO panel. To this end, the new alfabet solution contains a methodical framework with reference processes for the integrated management of information, the required software support, as well as a clearly defined method of implementation.

Making the correct investment decisions and realizing them according to plan
With alfabet's SITM solution, all IT-related decision-makers will have access to the information necessary to minimize risks when making investment decisions. New IT solutions can then be selected based on their value contribution to the business' success. Because all levels of the decision-making process are networked, the implementation of these measures can be planned, monitored, and thus controlled. As a result, your company's IT will once again become manageable.

More information is available on the Internet at www.alfabet.de > Solutions > SITM.

About the Company
alfabet meta-modeling AG offers innovative software solutions and services for the strategic management of information in complex business architectures ("collaborative Business Architecture Management" / cBAM). alfabet's solutions are unique in the marketplace in that they support the control of the growing complexity of business architectures in large enterprises.

alfabet solutions fill existing information gaps and process precisely the information necessary for the successful implementation of strategic goals in the business architecture. The current solution framework for strategic IT management (SITM) specifically focuses on the operationalization of strategic business goals in the IT landscape of Global 2000 businesses.

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