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                IT portfolio management

                Manage your IT portfolio like a serial innovator

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                Is your IT ready to support ongoing innovation?

When it comes to innovation, being a one-hit wonder won’t cut it. Your modern business requires an IT practice that supports ongoing, sustainable business innovation. However without a streamlined IT portfolio and insights into the impact of change, your IT won’t be agile enough to pivot with the changing times—and it won’t align with business priorities.

Get it wrong, and you’ll be left behind as digital native companies capture new market opportunities.

How can you fine tune your IT landscape to support innovation? Go with the leader in enterprise architecture management, IT planning tools and IT portfolio management software—Alfabet.

Industry-analyst-recognized Alfabet helps you invest in IT wisely by managing your current IT portfolio and collaboratively planning for a future of innovation.

                Make strategic IT decisions

Your IT decisions should be closely tied to your business strategy. Improve your strategy-to-execution alignment with Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM).

                Secure IT budget

Start maximizing IT with application rationalization, optimizing for cost reduction and increased agility.

                Manage your IT investments

Learn how to make strategic IT investments that will have a positive impact on your business.

                Respond to crises

IT portfolio managers have an important role to play in helping the business make the right decisions during a crisis.

                Be cloud ready

Learn how IT portfolio management can be utilized to define, implement and execute on your cloud deployment strategy.

                Be an agile enterprise

Discover how you seamlessly scale Agile development, delivery and decision making across your entire enterprise.

                        Get value out of your IT investment with Alfabet

Be smart about Investing in IT with Alfabet. Align your IT portfolio software to business and protect investments by exposing dependencies between software portfolios—current and future.

                    The Forrester Wave™: Strategic Portfolio Management Tools, Q1 2022

Recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Strategic Portfolio Management Tools, Q1 2022, Forrester Research, Inc.

                    See how strategic portfolio management (SPM) platforms stack up

Out of 10 vendors, Software AG is a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ of 2022 for Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM).

                    Alfabet positioned as a Leader in Forrester Wave™

See how Alfabet ranks with competitors in the Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Architecture Management Suites 2021 report.

                    A Leader
in enterprise architecture

Software AG is named a Leader for the 14th year in the Gartner^® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Architecture Tools, 2021.

                Meet the IT portfolio management products

                Alfabet

Use AI-augmented analytics, conversational UI features and automated translation to extend portfolio management beyond the IT organization. Promote greater stakeholder participation and maximize the user experience.

                Alfabet FastLane

Get started today with IT portfolio management in the cloud. You’ll get answers fast about your IT investments for better cost management, improved agility and faster delivery of IT innovations for the business.

                IT’s easier without complexity

Digitalization demands change—and lots of it—with awesome innovations that leverage the cloud, the Internet of Things, bimodal IT, agile development and DevOps. Be bold on change when you understand the impact from every angle with Alfabet for IT software portfolio management.

                    Be business-like on IT change

Run IT like a business by evaluating assets, returns and risks to make smart investment, divestment and hold decisions. Deliver on key initiatives to support core business strategies—company acquisitions, operations, globalization, business model transformation and compliance. Respond successfully to digitalization challenges: new technologies, new business channels and new security threats.

                    See how much there is to know

Estimate the impact everywhere with “whole-view management”—know interdependencies between portfolios for applications, technologies, projects, services and APIs. Determine what will be affected by any given project or change to reduce project risk and be able to take on more projects.

                    Make your IT portfolio agile

Increase your portfolio of IT assets' agility in implementing business initiatives faster, thus improving time-to-market for new business products. Streamline portfolios and use Agile portfolio and feature management capabilities to leverage Agile delivery methods and align delivery to business and IT strategy.

                    Lower project, data & application risk

Safeguard IT project investments, ensure business continuity, and increase compliance with regulatory requirements. Reduce change-related system disruptions and cost overruns by knowing how applications and processes are connected. Understand the upstream and downstream implications of change to plan better and aggressively pursue strategic projects.

                    Set the pace for change

Differentiate between the need for speed—whether to support a business innovation, a new market segment or the back office—and determine how fast systems need to change. Group systems as per the needed rate of change and tailor assessment criteria and the resulting handling accordingly.

                Our customers—truly connected enterprises

The first mainstream bank in the U.K. in more than a century turned to Software AG to build solid process management capabilities and ensure client data is managed safely and professionally.

Governments around the world need to respond faster by adapting change and transformational culture. The leaders in Dubai set the expectations to transform their beloved city with Software AG.

Credit Suisse banks on Alfabet for continuous application technology improvement. "Alfabet helped us very much using standard functionality and governance structures," the customer said.

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                Read the Aité Group's research

This white paper lays out the key value points proving just how effective IT portfolio management will be for your organization, partners and colleagues.

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                Becoming
an agile enterprise

Learn how Alfabet facilitates scaling agile across large organizations and offers support for frameworks like SAFe.

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                    See, decide & act with Software AG

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