Get fit for FITARA and TBM
FedRAMP-authorized Alfabet makes it easier to transition to mandated IT management frameworks. See why we’re nine years a leader in Integrated IT Portfolio Analysis.
Alfabet IT Portfolio Management
Let’s simplify IT
Alfabet solves your problems
Simplifying Portfolio Management
Get a high-level view of how various IT portfolios—application, project, technology and demand—interrelate. Intuitive wizards and workflows make it easy to manage IT inventory data. Accelerator packages and our software-as-a-service platform get you up and running fast.
Spending Wisely On IT
Align IT spending with mission strategy, required capabilities and new demands, like more citizen self-service and digital workplace support. Avoid investing in redundant systems and software. See where you can consolidate to boost purchasing power.
Reducing Risk
Reduce transformational risks by understanding when, where, how and why to make changes in the IT portfolio. Understand dependencies across IT portfolios. Manage portfolio changes in a way that’s consistent and transparent.
IT portfolio management, simplified
Use the richest meta model you’ll find anywhere to manage your agency’s IT portfolio. Alfabet makes it easy to do all of this:
- IT portfolio rationalization
- Strategy alignment
- Portfolio transformation
- IT planning
- Agile innovation
- API planning & management
- Project execution
- Risk management
- IT governance
What you can do with Alfabet
- Crosswalk & Analyze IT Portfolios
- Govern Your IT Portfolio
- Plan In A Collaborative Way
- Adopt Frameworks Faster
Crosswalk & Analyze IT Portfolios
- Get a high-level view of how IT portfolios interrelate to plan strategic transformation
- Crosswalk your IT portfolio to gain various perspectives, from an application to a services view
- Identify the ripple effects of changing a portfolio object on objects in other portfolios
- Document and rationalize all IT assets accumulated over time
- Link business capabilities to supporting applications, technologies and projects
- Assure IT changes deliver on their promise to improve agency operations
Govern Your IT Portfolio
- Make portfolio decisions based on the value, cost and risk of any IT investment
- Show clear responsibility for capturing information, assessing portfolios and making decisions
- Implement agency business portfolios and create ad-hoc ones as needed
- Use workflows and monitors to assess all required information before decision making
- Make approvals transparent and auditable
Plan In A Collaborative Way
- Use one collaborative planning platform for all stakeholders
- Articulate plans via road maps, stakeholder-oriented views and reporting
- Provide a central inventory of the information with role-specific content and navigation
- Get an accurate and reliable perspective on time need to switch to new solutions
Adopt Frameworks Faster
- Simplify your transition to TBM, FEAF, FITARA and DODAF and other mandated frameworks and standards
- 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 technology is recognized as leading by the industry’s top analyst firms.
Key Benefits
Key Benefit
Run IT like a business
Capture agency strategy and decide what it requires from IT. Reduce the size and complexity of the IT landscape and cut unnecessary costs. Create operational efficiencies by eliminating information silos.
Manage IT all
With Alfabet you have a single tool for managing application portfolios, project portfolios, technology portfolios and demand as well as your enterprise architecture. Understand the relationship of projects to strategies, demands, business capabilities, applications and technologies.
Lower IT costs
See where you can eliminate redundant assets, or even retire ones that are no longer mission critical. Improve your purchasing power by consolidating purchases agency-wide.
Increase visibility
Use web- and mobile-based portals for immediate access to information on the IT landscape for portfolio, application, technology and project managers. More than 1,000 ready-to-use report and diagram templates speed up sharing information.
Improve change management
Generate views of your IT landscape for any desired date or timeframe—ideal for future-state planning and change management. Ensure adequate governance of IT acquisition processes and follow-through on change decisions.
Simplify data capture
Alfabet makes it easy to load and sync data with other sources to ensure IT inventory information is complete and up to date. Wizards, workflows and surveys help you capture IT landscape data in a consistent way that’s categorized according to your conventions.
Fast startup
With Alfabet software as a service, you can get started quickly. Alfabet FastLane is low cost, risk free and an ideal starting point for IT portfolio management. Populate IT information into Alfabet FastLane, then quickly generate dashboards and reports for clear visualizations for fast decisions and targeted actions.
Resources
Software AG Government Solutions’ IT Portfolio Management Helps Federal Agencies Run Efficiently
The platform allows apps to be managed and provides more oversight into agencies’ data.
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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