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Create 'actionable' enterprise roadmaps and blueprints;
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Integrate strategy, process, operational, and technology
dimensions;
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Establish and maintain aligned organizational, process,
and technology portfolios;
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Create scenarios for alternative technology approaches;
* Run
IT like a business.
* Align
the IT strategy with the business strategy.
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Create 'updated' technology architectures that leverage
SOA, BPM, and Web Services technologies.
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Interactive
Enterprise IT
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DESCRIPTION
Zero Delta Enterprise
Designer is an enterprise-class software system that supports a
wide-range of functionality required to create fully-detailed
business and IT strategies,
enterprise architecture blueprints, roadmaps, and programme structures.
Enterprise Designer optimizes and simplifies the process of
designing and managing integrated enterprise models.
Business and technology strategists, architects, designers, and programme managers can more
efficiently and quickly manage their specific aspects of an
enterprise-wide modeling initiative, by leveraging a common tool
platform that is designed to organize and maintain a wide range
of enterprise information.
BACKGROUND
Creating
accurate and integrated strategic and operational blueprints and
roadmaps has been a constant struggle for many organizations.
The problem is the result of the lack of integrated processes, different
vocabularies or ways to describe enterprise information, and
either the complete lack of tools required to support the
enterprise or a mish-mash of software that was never designed to
address the problem straight on.
For most
companies, enterprise modeling requires too much manual effort
causing a drain on already strapped IT and business resources.
Traditional modeling methods and efforts have required
time-consuming information collection. Even with the best
possible processes in place, the sheer volume of information
that needs to be managed across various lifecycle stages is
just daunting.
The
liabilities stemming from poor enterprise modeling, design, and
management
has an impact on the entire organization. The business and
IT are disadvantaged in the following areas:
Lack of an Integrated,
Strategic Approach - At the enterprise level, if the
business is executing a different strategy than IT, it is sure
to lead to a chaotic environment where the business can't
accomplish its objectives and IT continues to struggle with
servicing the needs of the business. At best this results
in a constrained relationship between the business and IT.
At worse, very little is accomplished all while expensive
resources are chewing up time and money, resulting in
enterprise-wide value destruction.
Lack of Integrated
Technology Environment
- Separate application, systems, information, security, and
process architectures manifest themselves into a 'hodge-podge'
of systems that are not designed to work cohesively together.
This results in increased IT spending and operational expenses.
This also impacts the business as it takes IT twice as long to
develop solutions that meet 1/2 the requirements.
Misaligned Projects -
Projects without charters, projects lacking a clear definition
of objectives, poorly managed projects that fail to meet
objectives, goals, and milestones. It probably goes
without saying that mis-aligned projects destroy value.
They waste valuable capital and resources, and they have an
opportunity cost associated with them, which when taken into
account begs the question -- 'What higher value creating
projects are we missing out on?'
Providing an
integrated and collaborative environment to specified decision
makers and access to specific enterprise-related information
through a standard framework and meta-model can effectively
reduce or eliminate the majority of enterprise modeling and
management problems. Business and IT strategists,
designers, architects, and managers can quickly create
integrated blueprints and roadmaps in a collaborative
environment, greatly reducing the complexities commonly
associated with this challenging task.
PRODUCT
OVERVIEW
Zero Delta
Enterprise Designer provides a common, collaborative environment
for enterprise modeling and management.
Scenario
Planning - Conduct extensive what-if analysis and design
scenarios that take into account different input variables, and
desired outcomes. Design domain-specific scenarios or
complete enterprise scenario models.
Blueprint
Design - Leverage a common blueprinting environment.
Business and IT planners, designers, architects, and managers
can work with the same enterprise-level information ensuring
consistently across blueprints.
Blueprint Management
- Manage the blueprint lifecycle process. Establish your
own specific blueprint workflow including blueprint routing,
approval, and transition from design to production blueprints.
For example, and Enterprise Architect may delegate certain
aspects of the technology blueprinting process across multiple
Domain Architects, including Application Architects, Information
Architects, System Architects, Security Architects, etc.
Decision
Modeling - Apply greater rigor against your decision making
process. Create an integrated decision landscape where
multiple decisions can be managed in a common way.
Decisions landscapes can be designed in a collaborative manner,
allowing input from different departments and among decision
constituents. Maintain a history of the rationale
that went into the decision making process for decision mining
purposes.
Decision
Optimization - Leverage statistical methods to arrive at
better, fact-based decision outcomes. The patent pending
algorithms and methods are designed to identify all of the
factors that positively or negatively impact a decision.
Roadmap
Design - Create integrated roadmaps that are designed to the
way you manage your environment. Create roadmaps according
to major initiatives or efforts (business transformation, M&A,
continuous improvement programmes, etc.), by geography, or by
organizational area (or any combination hereof).
Roadmap
Management -- Manage the roadmap creation and execution
process. Roadmap planners can delegate certain aspects of
the roadmap development process. Roadmap planning teams
can span the entire organization and can collaborate around
defining, designing, executing, and managing enterprise-wide
roadmaps.
Programme
Design - Ensure alignment between programme goals and
objectives and enterprise-wide strategic goals and objectives.
Fully articulate the programme structure; align resources to
programme timelines; identify critical milestones across
multiple projects; and create measurable performance metrics by
which you can ensure the successful delivery of programmes in
your environment.
Programme
Management -- Manage programmes across the enterprise.
Check on the status of programmes in Beijing while sipping
coffee in London. Enterprise Designer allows for
integrated programme management, and with our Microsoft Project
Server connector, you can automatically connect programmes 'down
to' the project and task level.
Portfolio
Design - Create as many portfolio as you desire.
Strategy portfolios, Decision portfolios, Application
portfolios, Decision portfolios, System portfolios, etc.
You can create a portfolio for any meta-item contained within
the repository and customize the information maintained and
viewable with a few quick clicks of a button.
Portfolio
Optimization - Leverage integrate portfolio optimization
methods including various valuation approaches.
