Adopt frameworks faster with Alfabet
Accelerate your adoption of TBM, FEAF, FITARA and DODAF and other frameworks using Alfabet, FedRAMP authorized and #1 in enterprise architecture management for over 10 years.
Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management
Meet the mandates with a leader
Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management solves your problems
Improving IT Transparency
See what assets you have, how they interrelate, how to streamline your portfolio and where to invest to align with your agency’s vision.
Managing IT Costs
Create an agency-wide framework for understanding spend. Manage IT costs by rationalizing the IT landscape.
Aligning To Agency Mission
Better understand your agency’s IT spending and how that spending helps you meet your mission and serve citizens.
No More Silos
Create operational efficiencies by eliminating information silos. Improve business and IT agility with a clear understanding of impacts and dependencies in your architecture.
Enterprise architecture management, simplified
With Alfabet, you’ll have a clear understanding of IT investments. Analyze and share information on agency EA using more than 1,000 ready-to-use report templates. Design your own using lifecycle graphs, geo-maps and business charts to understand relationships and KPIs.
What you can do with Alfabet
- Improve IT Governance
- Reduce Duplicate Systems
- Improve Change & Risk Management
- Accelerate Framework Adoption
Improve IT Governance
- Maintain accurate, current and complete data on your IT landscape
- Align IT structures with agency objectives and processes
- Define and enforce standard EA processes and components for projects
- Keep technology proliferation under control
- Understand the relevance and value of tech in supporting agency objectives
Reduce Duplicate Systems
- See where to consolidate
- Identify technologies that are unused or redundant
- Uncover inefficiencies in IT support
- Reduce costs for licenses, operations, support and application integration
- Spot inappropriate SLA levels
Improve Change & Risk Management
- Catalog services and their architecture dependencies to reduce risk and plan change
- See your IT portfolio from different perspectives to detect conflicts and leverage synergies
- Analyze a change initiative early to scope effort and verify plausibility
- Plot your transformation success with road mapping capabilities across multiple dimensions
Accelerate Framework Adoption
- Built-in support for TBM, FEAF, FITARA and DODAF simplifies your transition to mandated frameworks
- Alfabet gives you a holistic view of the IT environment through the lens of the frameworks
- Define IT towers, implement cost pools, create TBM-specific reports that highlight financial figures with the TBM framework
Awards
Software AG’s Alfabet is consistently a leader in enterprise architecture management.
Key Benefits
Key Benefit
FedRAMP authorized
Software AG Government Solutions has been awarded FedRAMP Authorization for Software AG Government Cloud, which allows agencies to take advantage of Software AG’s Alfabet product in a secure SaaS model. Leveraging our leading FedRAMP SaaS results in rapid deployment and fast time-to-value while still adhering to all security requirements.
Meet agency aims
By applying TBM taxonomy to your EA, you will gain an understanding of how your technology spending enables your agency’s mission.
Understand IT investments
Better manage IT spending with increased visibility and accurate data. Answer questions like: Is there sufficient IT support for critical agency capabilities? Which projects should we put on hold? Which IT systems can we remove due to redundancy? Where can we optimize vendor costs?
Control IT costs
Gain a clear understanding of IT costs, opening the door to more accurate, meaningful benchmarking. Create and monitor IT rationalization plans.
Inform IT decisions
By marrying the information about your IT environment and its capabilities with the details of your IT spend, you’ll be able to make more informed and impactful decisions to meet agency goals and use funding more effectively.
Master any challenge
Alfabet’s robust capabilities span portfolio rationalization, strategy alignment, API management, Agile innovation, cloud management, project execution, M&A due diligence, risk management and IT governance for all your IT projects.
Customize by role
Customize Alfabet to each stakeholder in terms of look and feel, relevance of information and clear procedures for task execution.
Resources
Top Reasons to Take an Enterprise Architecture Approach to Technology Business Management - Offsite Link
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Alfabet Enterprise Architecture – An EA Approach to Technology Business Management
Enterprise Architecture as a practice is well understood by IT teams due to well-understood categorization models for tracking and managing assets.
An EA Approach to Technology Business Management eBook
Enterprise Architecture as a practice is well understood by IT teams due to well-understood categorization models for tracking and managing assets.
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