16.11.09 - Avolution and Logica announce partnership
Avolution, the market leader in metrics-based analysis of architectures, and Logica,
a leading IT and business services company, today announced that Logica has selected
Avolution's ABACUS product suite as a preferred solution for its
IT Strategy, Service Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Architecture High Growth Area (HGA).
Mr. Georges Abou Harb, Logica's IT Strategy and Service Oriented Architecture Practice
Leader, said: "Logica selected ABACUS due to its flexible modelling approach and its
ability to improve the quality of IT decision making by calculating and reporting detailed analytics."
"Strategic change in business needs to be supported by agile IT solutions. With ABACUS,
Logica can enhance its Enterprise Architecture and Service Oriented Architecture practices
by providing a rigorous enterprise modelling approach to ensure the best solutions for our customers."
Dr Tim O’Neill, Founder and Principal of Avolution said: "Logica are experts at using
Enterprise Architecture as a planning discipline and Service Oriented Architecture as a
way to become more agile, whilst maintaining control."
"ABACUS provides Logica with a superior ability to analyse metrics such as the
availability of critical business processes and portfolio total cost of ownership.
It provides an environment in which many different types of business can be captured,
visualised, designed and analysed."
"We are delighted to sign Logica as a professional services partner for our ABACUS
product suite. This agreement is key to Avolution’s worldwide partnership strategy."
ABACUS supports over 30 frameworks, notations and techniques
and can model, predict and control the properties of enterprises and systems.
For further details on ABACUS please contact Avolution on sales@avolution.eu
or Logica on sales@logica.com.
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.
About Logica
Logica is a leading IT and business services company, employing 40,000 people. It provides
business consulting, systems integration, and IT and business process outsourcing services.
Logica works closely with its customers to release their potential - enabling change that
increases their efficiency, accelerates growth and manages risk. It applies its deep industry
knowledge, technical excellence and global delivery expertise to help its customers build
leadership positions in their markets. Logica is listed on both the London Stock Exchange and
Euronext (Amsterdam) (LSE: LOG; Euronext: LOG). More information is available at
www.logica.com.
Press contacts
Renate Krelle
Communications Manager, Avolution
Renate.Krelle@avolution.eu
Tel: +44 (0)1865 250 877
Suma Boby
Group PR Manager, Logica
s.boby@logica.com
Tel: +44 (0)7595 612 180
