EA SERVICES

Architecture-based analysis with ABACUS

Archangel IT offers its customers essential advice and services aimed at utilizing their EA program as a tool for maximizing corporate IT investments, business alignment and agility. This has been enhanced by our alliance with Avolution a rising contender in the international EA tool market with offices in Australia, Europe and now the US. Avolution's ground-breaking product ABACUS is a powerful tool for enterprise modeling and analysis of complex architectures across people, processes and technology.

Unique among enterprise modeling products ABACUS enables the creation of multiple architectures or solution scenarios (As-is, To-be) on which simulations and analysis (What-if, Discrete Event, Monte Carlo, Gap, TCO, ROI, etc.) may be conducted. This model-driven approach ensures informed decisions based observational and quantitative analysis through the capture of service-level metrics in areas such as Cost, Performance, Reliability, Openness and Modularity to maximize corporate IT investments, business alignment and agility.  ABACUS features:

• Rapid, practical architecture population (“just enough architecture”)
• Communication of an enterprise model and analysis using graphs, two dimensional models and advanced 3-D visualizations
• Information sharing including Executive Dashboard integration
• Predictive modeling and scenario driven trade-off analysis
• Operational analysis and visualization of service-level metrics which include components, connections and constraints (IEEE 1471)
• Fully and easily customizable meta-model
• Openness: imports from Excel, Visio, CMDB’s, databases, other EA tools, XML, etc.
• Round-tripping:  exports from ABACUS to all of the above
• Publish architectures to the web
• Templates and Libraries (FEA, DoDAF, TOGAF, Zachman, UML, BPMN, ERD, etc)
• Multi-user support
• Scripting for customization and extensibility

Please contact Archangel IT today for more information about our Architecture based analytical services, a free initial consultation and price quote; or to arrange a complementary WebEx demo of ABACUS.

For more information about Avolution please visit www.avolution.com.au or click here to view an ABACUS demo on YouTube.