28.10.08 - Butler Group rates ABACUS as a leader

Avolution, the market leader in metrics-based analysis of architectures, today announced the inclusion of ABACUS in a recent independent research analyst's report.

Butler Group have recently published a Technology Management and Strategy Report entitled IT Strategy and Architecture: Creating an Enterprise Model to Support IT Strategic Planning citing ABACUS as a tool that provides "a practical and measurable metrics framework for non-functional architectural requirements, which could also be used to manage the risks associated with complex systems and enterprises".

"Without a fact-based assessment of each architecture option, Enterprise Architecture is prone to be guided by opinion, which can prove relatively expensive, be open to manipulation, and sometimes inefficient.  A leading exponent of a metrics-based approach is Avolution with its ABACUS which is focused on three key aspects.  Firstly, the flexibility of meta-model creation, including easy import from existing models, especially those built in Visio and Excel; secondly, providing simulation of architecture options using different metrics; and finally, integrating with a wide range of infrastructure data sources."

For a detailed technical audit on ABACUS by the Butler Group please go here.

For further details on this report please contact Sales on sales@avolution.eu or please freely download the management summary here.

About Avolution
Avolution provides the ABACUS® solution which is unique to the enterprise modelling 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, Alignment, Cost and Availability. 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, importing from MS Visio, MS Excel and many other formats.
• Analyse your architecture(s) for metrics such as; Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Alignment, 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.