What is Alfabet?
Software AG's Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management Platform provides a collaborative platform for aligning the IT landscape with the business to guide competitive transformation. Alfabet offers a comprehensive solution for enterprise architecture management (EAM) and strategic IT planning and portfolio management (SPM). It comes in two editions – Alfabet Enterprise and Alfabet Fastlane – to let you decide which option best fits your needs based on budget, portfolio management maturity, program goals and stakeholders.
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83 Likeliness to Recommend
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91 Plan to Renew
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74 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+82 Net Emotional Footprint
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- Saves Time
- Respectful
- Effective Service
- Acts with Integrity
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Alfabet Reviews
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Shipping
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Dec 2021
Great for planning & tracking product lifecycles.
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Reliable
- Efficient Service
- Effective Service
- Inspires Innovation
Vivian C.
- Role: Vendor Management
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Dec 2021
Good with proper configuration and org. alignment
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Alfabet from other similar products?
Enable enterprise collaboration to reaching out business organizations to provide input, which could be a good way to mobilizing the enterprise with strategized organizational alignment, coaching, and training.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Enable every business units to provide their business processes
What do you dislike most about this product?
Mandate "common semantics" be utilized from every organizations' business architecture/processes should be the precursor.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Enable two ways communication, for the EA/Domain Data Stewards/business process owners to communicate effectively, promote common semantics to be utilized across the enterprise (in both data architecture, business architecture, and all layers in TOGAF).
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
Cons
- Less Reliable
- Less Performance Enhancing
- Under Delivered
John K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Dec 2021
SAG Alfabet when you need to get EA done right
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Alfabet from other similar products?
Alfabet has all of the capabilities and feature an EA team will need. I have done many product reviews and demos of the other products and they are all chasing Alfabet. They ability to see a top-down view of the capabilities to business process through technology is unique to this product. Lastly the ability to quickly modify the front end to fit a particular role in the organization is unprecedented.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Ease of use to quickly see all of the components that make up a business capability. This viewpoint provides that high-level look that will persuade executives to the right strategic tenet and fund the projects that move the architecture to serve the business better.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I think that the UX needs more drag and drop functionality. There should also be a more UX version of integration as well.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Here are my recommendations 1. Like all things EA make sure that you have executive buy in 2. Make the tool available to solution architects, system admins and business people this ensures that the information become their information not just EA information imposed on them. 3. Continuous measurable improvement. Budget for constant modification and updates to feature and functionalities that you release to the organization. 4. Implement a governance process on the data/information as well as the features so that larger aspects of EA, SDLC, Change management aspects can move forward be more integrated
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
