Date: October 25, 2004
Adaptive Announces Major Release of its Enterprise
Architecture Repository Product
New release supports building a more complete
picture of an enterprise using the latest “enterprise architecture”
concepts. It also incorporates enhanced capabilities to import and
integrate existing knowledge about key elements of an enterprise from
a wide range of sources.
October 25, 2004 - Adaptive, Inc., a leading provider
of Enterprise Architecture Knowledge Repository solutions, today announced
the next major release of its powerful Adaptive Enterprise Architecture
Manager™ (Adaptive EA Manager) product, which is increasingly
being selected by federal government agencies and global corporations
as the preferred solution for building and maintaining their enterprise
architectures.
Version 3.0 of the Adaptive software provides significantly
enhanced capability to manage, in a tightly integrated fashion, the
full breadth of knowledge about the enterprise from strategy, to business
processes, to information technology and other key resources. It also
provides for better information accessibility and collaboration. With
Adaptive EA Manager, organizations can easily and securely capture
and share the knowledge required to align and manage business changes
to maintain competitive advantage, to get the best returns on investments,
and to consolidate IT and other resources to reduce operating costs.
New product features and enhancements include:
- Full support for the 11 Adaptive Reference Model™ domains
- 43 new types of repository element
- Extended use of Microsoft® Visio®, with Visio stencils integrated
into the repository to support 17 different Enterprise Architecture
techniques
- The ability to easily create new stencils for custom techniques
- A new data integration architecture (Adaptive Integrator™)
providing reusable components that can be linked together to create
customer-specific “data harvesting” processes
- More powerful data import / export capability, through integration
with over 80 tools out of the box
- Organization-focused views that enable the Enterprise Architecture
to be managed from multiple organizational perspectives
- Support for IBM® WebSphere® Application Server
- Enhanced graphical navigation
- The ability to produce reports in Adobe® PDF format
Enterprise Architecture encompasses many disciplines
and techniques being used in today’s Global 2000 companies and
major government agencies to enable them to adapt their business capabilities
to respond to changing needs and opportunities. Through its robust
enterprise architecture knowledge repository, Adaptive can help these
organizations cope with the complexity of aligning business strategies,
processes and resources, especially IT resources.
“Adaptive is tremendously excited at the significant
benefits that this powerful tool brings to the Enterprise Architecture
space,” says Jeff Goins, Adaptive CEO. “Adaptive EA Manager
is aimed at helping both IT and business professionals to manage the
relationships, context and connectivity that give meaning to the business.
In particular, it enables enterprise architects and metadata managers
to create the ‘big picture’ they have been striving for.”
Adaptive EA Manager is built on the open, standards-based,
powerful and scalable Adaptive Foundation™ repository platform,
deployed via an impressive web-based browser interface that is easily
integrated into the way users already work. It enables them to describe
and visualize the enterprise architecture in terms of the inter-dependencies
among strategic direction, organization structure, business processes,
and key resources including IT applications, data, and infrastructure
assets.
Adaptive EA Manager enables organizations to manage
metadata that spans from corporate strategy and business requirements,
through data and applications to IT operations. By providing a holistic
view of the enterprise, Adaptive EA Manager exposes complex relationships
and dependencies that enable an organization to identify impacts,
risks and potential costs of any changes. It also enables the organization
to identify underutilized capability, bottlenecks, and redundancies.
Its unique capability to bring data from various sources into a holistic
secure environment provides management the ability to plan, organize,
lead and monitor corporate capabilities in a much more effective manner
than has previously been possible.
About Adaptive, Inc.
Adaptive is an international corporation providing a
web based and industry standards compliant Enterprise Knowledge Repository
and related "Adaptations" to enable Enterprise Architecture
management. The company works with many large organizations and governments
around the world to support their enterprise architecture initiatives
and specific management challenges such as Business Process Management
and IT Portfolio Management.
Adaptive’s technology enables organizations to
understand and align critical enterprise assets and capabilities with
objectives and strategies, and to reduce the time, cost and risk of
adapting to continuous environmental change.
Contact:
Ylva Barker
Marketing Manager
+44 (1202) 491-251
press@adaptive.com
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