Troux Answers
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This document discusses how Troux software can help plug critical management information gaps. It provides answers to key business and IT questions around disconnects between IT and business, technology risks, current IT costs, portfolio savings, necessary applications and contracts, unsupported technologies, the application landscape, optimization opportunities, changes to the technology roadmap, roadmap risks, impacted business processes, reusable designs, enterprise interdependencies, required data collection, and how the future landscape should look. Troux uniquely empowers EA teams to quickly deliver consolidated, visual summaries of enterprise information to address strategic questions.
Troux Answers
- 1. answers Plugging Critical Management Information Gaps with Troux
- 2. answers Contents Plugging critical management information gaps ................................................................................................. 4 Where do we have disconnects between IT and the business? .............................................................................. 5 Where do we need to mitigate business and technology risks? .............................................................................. 6 What are our current IT costs for supporting the business? ................................................................................... 7 How can we evaluate portfolio savings to-date and planned? ................................................................................ 8 Which applications, services and contracts are necessary to support the business? ................................................ 9 What technology is out of, or about to go out of, standard vendor support? .......................................................... 10 What is the consolidated view of our application landscape? .............................................................................. 11 Where and how we can optimize? .................................................................................................................... 12 What are the planned changes to the technology roadmap? ................................................................................ 13 Where are technology risks associated with roadmap? ........................................................................................ 14 What business processes are being impacted? .................................................................................................. 15 How can we speed estimating and deployment with reusable designs? ................................................................ 16 What information is used by what business processes? ...................................................................................... 17 Where are our enterprise interdependencies? .................................................................................................... 18 What data needs to be collected and automated? .............................................................................................. 19 How should the future landscape need to look to support the business? .............................................................. 20 The Troux Advantage ...................................................................................................................................... 21 2
- 3. answers Plugging Critical Management Information Gaps Leaders at the world’s largest companies and government agencies are missing information that is critical for making strategic Business and IT decisions. Recognizing strategic information gaps lead to strategic-sized mistakes, they have made obtaining this information an urgent priority. Troux’s unique software and know-how empowers EA teams to solve this problem and deliver this information quickly and easily. The following provides a visual summary demonstrating how Troux will address your key business questions 3
- 4. answers B u s In Ess & I T ExECuTI vEs: Where do we have disconnects between IT and the business? • view in a single report the summary of initiatives and how they support business capabilities • Look for gaps between business demand and IT 4
- 5. answers B u s In Ess & I T ExECuTI vEs: Where do we need to mitigate business and technology risks? • Quickly identify where critical business functions are dependent on unsupported technologies • Dynamically drill down for further analysis 5
- 6. answers B u s In Ess & I T ExECuTI vEs: What are our current IT costs for supporting the business? • understand how your fixed spend aligns to business capabilities • Review how your discretionary spend is allocated across new initiatives 6
- 7. answers B u s In Ess & I T ExECuTI vEs: How can we evaluate portfolio savings to-date and planned? • Get a historic view of how application counts and costs have changed over time • Confirm that planned projects will reduce count/cost in the future and at what point 7
- 8. answers P o RT f oLI o & I T PLAnnERs: Which applications, services and contracts are necessary to support the business? • Quickly assess your applications, web services and contracts across multiple dimensions (business capability, cost and more) • understand where business capabilities are exposed to technology risk stakeholders 8
- 9. answers P o RT f oLI o & I T PLAnnERs: What technology is out of, or about to go out of, standard vendor support? • view in a single report the lifecycle status of key technologies • Identify opportunities to reduce vendors • Improve planning lead time though better technology and business roadmap alignment 9
- 10. answers P o RT f oLI o & I T PLAnnERs: What is the consolidated view of our application landscape? • Easily identify consolidation and rationalization opportunities from multiple perspectives 10
- 11. answers P o RT f oLI o & I T PLAnnERs: Where and how we can optimize? • Perform side-by-side comparisons of your applications to understand the TCo of your application portfolio • Immediately identify applications with poor standards adherence and high technology risk 11
- 12. answers IT & G o v E RnAnCE sTAkEHoLDERs: What are the planned changes to the technology roadmap? • optimize your planning cycles by quickly identifying next-version technology standards • Improve the quality of project deliverables by using standard technologies 12
- 13. answers IT & G o v E RnAnCE sTAkEHoLDERs: Where are technology risks associated with roadmap? • Assess the health of your technology portfolio • objectively understand areas of risk prior to executing any change initiative 13
- 14. answers IT & G o v E RnAnCE sTAkEHoLDERs: What business processes are being impacted? • Proactively understand the impact of operational and strategic changes before it happens • Identify the level of risk for planned change 14
- 15. answers IT & G o v E RnAnCE sTAkEHoLDERs: How can we speed estimating and deployment with reusable designs? • Provide pre-defined archetypes to implementation architects • Quickly assemble designs and deliver more accurate estimates 15
- 16. answers E n T E RPRI sE ARCHI TECTs: What information is used by what business processes? • visualize upstream and downstream dependencies across enterprise architecture domains • understand the complexity of application portfolio and potential compliance exposure 16
- 17. answers E n T E RPRI sE ARCHI TECTs: Where are our enterprise interdependencies? • Gain a unified and contextual understanding across business, systems, technology, and information domains • Identify opportunities to reduce architectural risk 17
- 18. answers E n T E RPRI sE ARCHI TECTs: What data needs to be collected and automated? • Quickly assess and improve the quality of information used to make business and IT planning decisions • understand gaps and issues that require attention by authoritative information owners and source 18
- 19. answers E n T E RPRI sE ARCHI TECTs: How should the future landscape need to look to support the business? • systematically plan transitions from your current state to any future state • Build a detailed implementation roadmap based on current-state and proposed future-states differences 19
- 20. answers The Troux Advantage We know the minimum information needed to drive key decisions Troux identifies the core questions that must be answered to make cost reduction, management, and strategy decisions. We then identify the absolute minimum information that must be collected and connected to support the decision. This intellectual property is built into Troux software and know-how. our experts quickly enable your team to manage the process themselves. We know how to collect and manage this information for the lowest cost and effort once the information is defined, we set up quick and easy ways to capture it from your key people or systems and clean it. We enable your people to use the sophisticated information management and cleansing software to keep the information current and fresh, with minimal cost and effort. 20
- 21. answers We know how to get value from available data in days The flexibility of Troux means that you can unify the disparate sources of information you have available today into a common language, available for immediate decision making, in the form that makes sense for each stakeholder. You can then extend this information at your own pace for growing business needs. We know how to get value from incomplete data Troux reports and visualizations don’t require a complete dataset, governance process, or trained experts to start using them immediately. Troux actually delivers a lot more than just reports and insights. Many of the world largest organizations use Troux as the collaborative platform for Business and IT to transform their organizations – eliminating unneeded cost and responding rapidly to new business requirements. We are ready to help! 21
- 22. answers learn more at www.troux.com Americas Headquarters: EMEA Headquarters: Germany: Troux Technologies Troux Technologies, UK Troux Technologies GmbH 8601 FM 2222, Building 3, Suite 300 268 Bath Road Landsbergerstr. 302 Austin, TX 78730 Slough, SL1 4DX D-80687 München USA UK Germany Tel: +1 512 536 6270 Tel: +44 (0) 1753 725660 Tel: +49 89 452 1326 0 Fax: +1 512 231 8796 Fax: +44 (0) 1753 725661 Fax: +49 89 452 1326 29 Email: info@troux.com Email: emeasales@troux.com Email: emeasales@troux.com Copyright ©2009 Troux Technologies, Inc. Troux, all products prefaced by the word Troux and the Troux logos are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Troux Technologies, 200910 Inc. in the united states and/or other countries. All other products mentioned are either registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective corporations. 22