The first step in advancing your enterprise is to know what you have. Many enterprises have gathered system inventories only to let them become stale to the point that the valuable information is out of date and not trustworthy.
Furthermore just collecting a list of systems can be of limited utility if the information is not readily accessible from both the business and IT consumers.
Atlas Inventory incorporates mapping the system inventory back to business functionality as the first step of aligning your enterprise with the business. Exposing redundancy and existing business alignment will allow you to see your enterprise in a whole new light. Mapping the systems back to technology capabilities and platforms gives you the ability to see re-use opportunities across organizational boundaries. |
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Once you have an accurate and up to date picture of your enterprise with respect to your business and across IT organizations you are now able to do a gap analysis of your enterprise based on strategic direction and business goals. This will reveal the Hot Spots of your enterprise.
These Hot Spots are the areas of greatest discrepancy between where you have invested it resources in the past and the areas that provide the greatest value to the business. In order to efficiently invest your IT resources there will be certain areas where you will need to focus your attention.
Identifying the business areas of competitive advantage and strategic importance by itself is is valuable but mapping your Atlas Inventory over this view allows for the opportunities to become self evident. These opportunities will come in two forms areas of over investment, where too many resources have been consumed to support a business objective that is of little strategic importance; and under investment, where too few resources have been focused on strategic business differentiators. Acting on these opportunities will increase the efficiency of your investment and bring you in closer alignment with your business partners
How fast can your IT organization adapt to a change in business direction?
With Atlas alignment you will be able to identify instantly the impact to your enterprise as the business changes. |
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Atlas Pro incorporates everything from the Atlas Inventories and Atlas Alignment but takes it several steps further by producing a road map that clearly outlines the path from where you are today to a brighter tomorrow. Your are able to not only react quickly and efficiently to business and technology changes but also see opportunities for competitive advantage by utilizing your enterprise assets to harvest the most value from your investments |
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