Leader in gartner magic quadrant named

Software AG’s Alfabet IT Planning and Portfolio Management platform offers management and governance capabilities across multiple IT portfolios to provide the CIO and other leaders with the information they need in order to make broad, directional and strategic decisions. It enhances communication and collaboration among different IT portfolio managers and helps them understand the symbiotic relationships between the business strategy and demand, technology, application and project portfolios while also taking finance and risk perspectives into consideration.

For the report, Software AG was evaluated for its Alfabet platform among seven different software vendors on 15 criteria.

As many companies pass the initial first steps into digital business, they require the means to scale digital business initiatives to be able to handle the exponential increase in number and expectations of consumers. The report stated: “IIPA as a software technology can help users make effective IT decisions supporting these types of scaling efforts.”

The report also highlighted the benefit of connecting IIPA and EA for insights that can accelerate digital business scaling: “Seeing the potential collisions or contradictions between future-state EA models and elements in different IT portfolios can help uncover areas of redundancy and waste. This is important because scaling digital business requires a strong alignment between evolved business models and strategies and a lean, increasingly agile, product-focused IT organisation that can deliver continuous value.”

Dr. Wolfram Jost, Chief Technology Officer, Software AG, said: “We believe this report emphasises the need for portfolio management and enterprise architecture in realising digital business strategies. For us, it confirms our conviction that these two practices are essential components of Software AG’s Digital Business Platform and we are proud that Software AG has been named by Gartner as a leader in both the IIPA and EA markets. We see Software AG’s positioning in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant as validation of its strength in helping CIO’s and other senior stakeholders meet the needs of today’s digitalisation initiatives.”

Software AG is also positioned as a Leader in Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools” (authored by: Samantha Searle, Marc Kerremans; published: October 22, 2018).