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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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!
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