There is a growing focus on business outcomes. A recent IBM CIO Survey shows that business leaders and CIOs are reorienting their teams to focus on return on investment (ROI) and quantified business outcomes, while mitigating risk and reducing costs.
To make the right strategic decisions to implement business transformation, organizations require solutions that can help:
- Manage the impact of change, consolidation, and mergers and acquisitions
- Crystallize business priorities for IT action
- Leverage resources for innovation and improve organization performance
Customers are achieving successful business outcomes from an enterprise architecture-driven approach:
- A global express shipping company gained efficiencies and reduced cost during the consolidation of its US operations
- A leading retailer saved $20M by finding and avoiding risk in the consolidation of its merchandising operations
- A government agency leveraged enterprise architecture to reduce the time required to specify and design new solutions to a matter of weeks rather than months
Key capabilities
Increase operational efficiency, reduce recurring costs, and mitigate risks. Use IBM Rational® System Architect® to help gain clarity in enterprise decision making, while minimizing execution risk. Enhanced heatmaps help identify and report redundancy and potential reuse of business and technology assets.
Make planning actionable. Prioritize competing projects and supporting investments with collaboration across broad constituencies and improve cost-benefit and trade-off analysis using IBM Rational Focal Point™ integrated with Rational System Architect. Show impact of portfolio decisions, and assure projects remain aligned with business goals with new IT roadmaps that provide guidance from planning to successful outcomes.
Realize business benefits from technology solutions. Make architecture actionable with new integrations between Rational System Architect, IBM Rational Software Architect and Rational Focal Point to drive transformation and traceability of artifacts from business and IT strategy to solution development and delivery. Reduce cost and improve solution quality with increased asset reuse and governance, and assure new applications and services are driven by business needs.
Webcast
Enterprise architecture: Turn your IT plan into competitive advantage in an uncertain market
Case study
AGL Energy: Using EA to align IT infrastructure with business strategy
