Adaptive Announces IT Portfolio Manager Quick Start Package - Take Control of your IT Assets in Just 3 Months! Reduce Costs, Identify Redundancy, Optimize Resources.

WASHINGTON -- Enforce IT Governance, Build Collaboration, Enable Business Continuity

Adaptive, Inc., a leading provider of Enterprise Architecture Repository solutions, today announced a new IT Portfolio Manager Quick Start Package that enables IT managers to rapidly assume management control of their IT assets in just 3 months thereby realizing significant financial benefits. The ITPM Quick Start Package is designed to quickly capture and communicate an accurate and integrated view of an organization's portfolio of applications and the software and hardware assets they depend on.

This Quick Start Package incorporates Adaptive IT Portfolio Manager(TM) (ITPM), a web-based application for the management of IT assets installed either on-site or via an ASP model. Adaptive ITPM provides dynamic views and real-time analysis of the inter-dependencies and relationships between projects, applications, interfaces, data, infrastructure, business processes, products and organization structure. Adaptive ITPM is built on the open, standards-based, enterprise scalable Adaptive Foundation(TM) repository platform. Adaptive Foundation provides comprehensive repository capabilities including versioning, role-based security, web-based updating and collaboration, and is the most thoroughly and easily extensible enterprise architecture repository in the market.

IT managers are constantly seeking to understand the interdependencies of their IT assets so they can better respond to changing events. To do this effectively they must be able to find the answers to specific questions that often take considerable time and involve multiple systems and staff members. The Adaptive ITPM Quick Start Package will enable IT managers to quickly and correctly answer critical questions such as:

--What applications support an organization unit, and where are the applications deployed?

--What business processes does an application support, and which application version is being used in each case?

--What databases are used by an application, and which DBMS does each database depend on?

--Who supports an organization's servers or applications?

And it needn't be complicated, or time consuming. Organizations often have this information already but it's scattered all over the place in various spreadsheets, databases and tools. With Adaptive ITPM, the information can be imported from these existing sources and then captured in a consistent format, coordinated, controlled, shared and communicated with relevant stakeholders. Once this information is integrated in the Adaptive ITPM repository, sophisticated analysis capabilities are available to perform impact analysis to assess the implications of the failure of an IT asset, or the introduction of new technology. In addition, having a holistic view of an organization's IT assets and their use to support business applications, enables the discovery of redundancies and non-compliance with IT policies, standards or architecture.

Having accurate and real-time access to this critical information will produce significant benefits such as:

--Reduced project planning man-hours

--Eliminate the need for redundant IT asset data gathering activities

--Retain essential IT architecture information from key individuals

--Improved IT governance

The ITPM Quick Start Package employs a proven project methodology that focuses on quickly delivering tangible business benefits that will get the attention of stakeholders and management throughout an enterprise. Experienced Adaptive consultants with real-world expertise will work side-by-side with the client team, to produce meaningful and valuable results within 3 months. This repeatable project methodology also provides the client team with the training and mentoring that enables them to take ownership of the working repository of their IT assets when the project has completed.

When the ITPM Quick Start is complete, an organization is able to dynamically update its repository of IT assets through the role-based web browser interface so that the information stays current. As a next step, automated data transformations and imports from existing data and modelling sources can be developed using Adaptive's unique Transformation Engine that is accessible from a web services interface. Having a centralized, interactive and up-to-date "system of record" for IT assets will eliminate the errors and wasted time and effort from the non-integrated mechanisms organizations are using today to track IT assets.

The Adaptive ITPM Quick Start Package includes product licenses, full training and on-site consulting services. In addition, Adaptive provides the transformation capability to import/export and integrate information from a very wide range of existing sources, including Peregrine AssetCenter(R), MS Excel(R) and MS Visio(R) templates. An option is also available for customers to use the Adaptive ASP offering, which hosts the software at Adaptive's secure data center, and eliminates the overhead of installation and administration.

About Adaptive, Inc.

Adaptive is a global corporation providing a web-based and industry standards compliant Enterprise Architecture Repository. Its products are open, enterprise-scale software that integrate architecture information from modeling tools, office applications and operational systems.

Adaptive Foundation(TM) is a repository platform that enables Adaptive and its partners to quickly create Adaptations which encompass techniques, tools and analytical capabilities tailored to target specific domains or markets. The Adaptive suite includes a number of "Adaptations", including Adaptive Enterprise Architecture Manager(TM) (EAM), Adaptive Business Process Manager(TM) (BPM) and Adaptive IT Portfolio Manager(TM) (ITPM).

Adaptive works with many large organizations and governments around the world to address the challenges of enterprise architecture, business performance improvement, IT governance, meta-data management and Model Driven Architecture(TM).

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