16.07.07 - Avolution announces ABACUS 3.0

Avolution is pleased to announce the next significant release in its flagship software ABACUS®. ABACUS 3.0 will improve your ability to make informed decisions: find and recommend the optimal path for investment, with certainty.

By analysing enterprises using quantitative metrics such as total cost of ownership, performance, availability and agility, employing techniques such as Discrete Event and Monte Carlo simulations, ABACUS 3.0 allows the user to build and trade-off multiple solution alternatives (architectures) to determine the optimum solution to their problems.

Building a complete enterprise model in ABACUS across people, processes, and technology is surprisingly fast and utilises sophisticated import capability to automate the process from existing MS Excel spreadsheets, MS Access databases, and MS Visio drawings.

Sporting a new look-and-feel, ABACUS 3.0 also boasts a wealth of great new features including:

• A fully-featured dockable user-interface including advanced controls for easy operation
• An optimised 2D drawing tool
• Sophisticated and rapid 3D visualisations
• Customisable icons
• Seamless integration of unlimited Undo and Redo
• Optimisation of evaluators to derive quantitative metrics

ABACUS 3.0 is a .NET application purpose-built for Microsoft Windows platforms. The toolset supports operation on, and integration with:

• Microsoft Windows XP OS and later (.Net 2.0)
• Microsoft Office 2003 and later
• Microsoft Visio 2003 and later

ABACUS 3.0 is set to be formally released in Q4 2007 and we shall be posting more details closer to the release date. Please be on the look out for future announcements.

For further details please contact Avolution Sales on sales@avolution.com.au.

About Avolution
Avolution provides the ABACUS® solution which is unique to the enterprise modeling space in that it can create multiple solution alternatives (architectures) and then run various simulations (Discrete Event, Monte Carlo etc) against each alternative for metrics such as Performance, Cost and Agility. In so doing it can recommend the optimal path for investment, with predictive and quantitative certainty. More information is available at www.avolution.eu.

• Build any number of solution alternatives and views all according to a completely flexible meta-model.
• Analyse your architecture(s) for metrics such as; Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Performance, Availability, Agility and many more.
• View the architecture(s) and the results of any evaluation using advanced techniques such as; 3D, heat maps, capability spaces and trade-off diagrams.