Alfabet is for business and IT decision-makers who want to make better IT investment decisions and reduce transformational risks by understanding where, when, how and why to make changes in the IT portfolio. It links the interdependent perspectives of IT, business, technology, finance, and risk for “whole view” analysis of business and IT change.

Alfabet is #softwareag 's unique solution to providing a wealth of insights into the makeup and change behavior of IT and business portfolios, enabling decisions on investment portfolio optimization in the context of business and IT strategy while considering cost and risk implications.

Core Capabilities

Business Strategy Development: pulls together input from various sources to create an iterated and documented business strategy that provides a clear line of sight from the organization’s high-level vision to the implementing strategic themes. Additionally, operational and business performance indicators are defined and monitored so that the responsible business managers can track strategy implementation.

Operating Model Development: allows the future operating model to be designed and the required changes to the business capabilities, processes, organization, etc. to be understood and road mapped. Value streams provide structure to the Agile development process as well as insights into operating model issues using business capability mapping.

Agile Transformation: supports both Agile and traditional approaches to optimizing the investment portfolio. It also supports IT solution design and monitoring of IT investment deliverables, issues, and milestones. It ensures IT delivery is optimized and aligned to business strategy.

IT Portfolio Management: monitors the health of the IT assets and landscape and ensures that the trade-off between rapid progress and technical debt is transparent and best fit for the organization’s goals.

Enterprise Architecture Governance: has the tools to ensure the EAM/SPM programs are implemented well, and progress is monitored. Policies, standards, and data gathering provide the basis for informed decision making.

These capabilities are supported at all levels with Finance Management, and Security and Risk Management capabilities to provide indispensable insights for decision making, as well as planning support for future operating models and the associated cost and risk profiles.

Benefits

• fast and high-quality decisions on changes to the IT portfolio that support business initiatives

• planning and management of IT investment that supports current and future business strategy

• control over IT costs and risks to keep IT running efficiently

• nimble yet governed IT delivery across the organization

• digital innovation through business/IT collaboration/ideation and digital strategy management

• alignment between strategic goals and overall technology spend

• continuous IT and business operations secured against threats and vulnerabilities

• strong crisis response, rebound and resilience abilities

• technology strategy that aligns to business strategy and that is resilient and flexible to be able to respond quickly to business disruption