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MEGA International Introduces IT Planning Tool

Published: June 30, 2008

MEGA IT Planning meets a rapidly–emerging need to quickly understand the effects of multiple changes to IT resources.

MEGA INTERNATIONAL recently introduced MEGA IT Planning, a road mapping tool that helps enterprises plan, model, and visualize technology resources to make well-informed decisions about IT asset acquisition, management, and retirement. MEGA IT Planning is the latest addition to the MEGA Modeling Suite, a proven, comprehensive enterprise architecture and business process analysis solution.

It is an important new industry resource for strategic IT planning, to improve asset allocation, cost savings, and control of the evolution of IT systems. MEGA IT Planning meets a rapidly–emerging need to quickly understand the effects of multiple changes to IT resources, such as necessary software upgrades, discontinued products, or potential price changes.

Unlike other enterprise architecture offerings that don’t offer IT planning solutions, or IT planning tools that don’t offer comprehensive enterprise architecture and business process analysis capacity, the MEGA Modeling Suite now offers the full range of capabilities that are essential to clarify how the business and IT demands affect each other.

With the new tool, architects can model master plans of IT systems to obtain time-dependent views of application, service, and IT asset portfolio management. Comparing new and existing master plans, along with impact analysis, produces accurate forecasting of organizational and financial effects of change within the IT environment. Users can evaluate and compare multiple as-is and to-be scenarios concerning the evolution of the whole range of enterprise IT assets (such as applications, services, servers, etc.). As a result, enterprises can better align IT investments with business strategy. 

“Enterprise architects increasingly use road maps as essential graphics for technology planning and synchronizing business planning with technology strategy. With virtually no option other than the manual construction of road maps, architects are creating significant maintenance burdens for themselves … Architects today use EA tools to build as-is and to-be models. But an increasing number of architects and IT strategists tell Forrester that they need additional tooling for IT planning. They want to represent the multiple intermediary steps, represented by projects, scenarios, and instances of technology adoption, that will lead them from the current as-is model to an always-evolving to-be model,” noted the Forrester report, Tooling EA Road Maps, published January 10, 2008.