Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — June 30, 2008 — alfabet Inc., the leading software provider in strategic IT planning and management, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant in the “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools” report (Gartner, Inc. “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Tools” by Greta A. James, June 17, 2008).
“We believe our position in the Leaders Quadrant in the Magic Quadrant reflects our vision, thought-leadership and operational excellence, which manifests itself in our rapidly growing global customer base,” said Erik Masing, CEO and president of alfabet. “Our remarkable advancements during the past year confirm the market validation of alfabet’s unique approach to enterprise architecture. Our modular solution, planningIT, is the only solution that integrates enterprise architecture into the strategic IT management process. This gives our clients the ability to harvest their enterprise architecture activities downstream in the form of fast and accurate planning cycles, secure IT investments and effective business and IT transformations. Consequently, demand for our solution has significantly taken off since corporations realize that IT needs to be managed with a collaborative information system, just as other areas of the enterprise have been managed for years.”
A total of 13 vendors were evaluated in the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture tools report.
To be included in this Magic Quadrant, “a vendor must have a product (or integrated set of products) that meet the minimum requirements for an EA tool described previously.
The report notes that “The minimum requirements of an EA tool are:
— A repository
— A metamodel that supports the business, information and technology viewpoints, as well as solution architectures. The repository should also support relationships among and between objects in these viewpoints or architectures.
— Ability to present repository information to support stakeholder needs, including in graphical, text and executable forms.”
All vendors were required to demonstrate that they are being used in production to support EA work in at least 50 organizations, and user references were checked. Additionally, when the list of vendors was finalized on November 29, 2007, the vendor must have derived at least $2 million in license and maintenance revenue during the previous reporting year from products that are used for enterprise architecture or have exhibited an innovative approach to addressing the market’s needs.”
According to the report, “As organizations grapple with the need to understand and relate multiple aspects of their enterprise architecture (EA), the EA tool market continues to attract considerable interest and benefit from enhanced functionality.”
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About alfabet (www.alfabet.com)
alfabet enables companies to see, analyze, control and align IT initiatives with business priorities continuously. Its planningIT® software is unique in tightly coupling business priorities and IT returns with current and future initiatives. Competitive point solutions offer modeling or repository functions with a static view of priorities, architecture and infrastructure. alfabet provides a holistic, integrated and collaborative approach that offers continuous transparency into how IT and business information, processes and roles are changing and need to be managed over time.
The company serves a global user community of 16,000 IT professionals in more than 40 countries in a variety of industries, including automotive, financial services, telecommunications, logistics, high-tech and others. Its customers include international corporations such as AMB Generali, BP, Daimler, Deutsche Bahn and T-Systems. Founded in 1997, alfabet is based in Berlin with U.S. headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.
About the Magic Quadrant
The Gartner Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
