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ITatlas™ Overview
atlas [noun] A collection of maps, with supplementary illustrations and graphic analyses, tables and charts, that systematically illustrates a particular subject
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ITatlas is a product-centric technology portfolio manager used to establish, communicate and enforce IT standards, architectures and strategies.
ITatlas helps IT identify and eliminate redundancy and fragmentation. By winnowing out under-utilitized products, applications, services, etc., and consolidating redundant tools that offer overlapping functionality, IT not only eliminates unnecessary license and maintenance fees, but can contain support staff costs as well.
CIOs and Enterprise Architects face a daunting present & future.
IT is huge. IT is complex. The pace of technological change is staggeringly high. Making matters worse is the unprecedented increase in the rate of corporate mergers and acquisitions. The typical 21st century IT organization has inherited an enormously complex collection of applications and products. Most IT shops struggle when it comes to controlling and coordinating internal product usage or managing applications from a lifecycle perspective — both areas where ITatlas excels.
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ITatlas includes taxonomies
- IT Infrastructure
- Software Development
- Business Intelligence
- COTS Applications
ITatlas communicates
- IT Strategies
- Enterprise Architectures
- IT Standards
ITatlas shares knowledge
- Software Know-How
- Hardware Know-How
- Application Portfolios
- Design Patterns
ITatlas complements
- Asset Managers
- Portfolio Managers
- Modeling Tools
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CIOs are currently under immense pressure to reduce spending. According to analyst Groups, establishing an effective technology portfolio strategy can produce estimated savings of 15 – 25% off the total IT budget.
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To support and enable an effective CIO, Enterprise architects responsible for IT standards and governance need roadmaps to show people where IT's at and where IT's going. ITatlas provides both the knowledge base and information dissemination capability needed to effectively manage an enterprise’s IT infrastructure and applications portfolio.
ITatlas helps IT deliver the right information to the right person at the right time.
ITatlas is fast, secure, flexible, extensible, and role-based — different information can be tailored to different users depending on their business unit, geographic location, job function, computer platform, etc.
ITatlas is easy-to-learn and easy-to-use — its navigational interface is natural and intuitive.
ITatlas combines a tool and a taxonomy. Customers have the option to have ITatlas prepopulated with graphical images paired with tree-structured product category classification hierarchies as depicted within www.ITscout.org, or customers can use their own taxonomies and graphical images.
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| ITatlas includes a set of navigational models that combine visual graphics with flexible, extensible category hierarchies. Users click on graphical images to drill into hierarchical representations of product categories. |
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Click here to see the Flashmap models as IT Roadmap posters
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ITatlas is role-based, able to present information differently to different groups of people. This is accomplished using views. ITatlas supports an unlimited number of views, each of which can be organized along any dimension. For example, views can be defined by geographic location, by business unit, by job function, by computing platform, etc. Different views can also be created to represent different time periods. Access to ITatlas is assigned to individual users based on views.
Additional models, such as organizational charts, data models, or enterprise architecture diagrams, can easily be plugged into ITatlas to extend its basic functionality with custom-defined category trees.
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