Troux Technologies Announces First, Automated Enterprise Reference Model; Troux Reference Model -- TRM -- Plus Troux 4 Accelerate High Impact IT Initiatives.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 12, 2004

Troux(TM) Technologies, the leading provider of strategic IT management (ITM) software, today is introducing the Troux Reference Model, a breakthrough framework for enterprise architecture and configuration management. The TRM is unique in that the population, relationship discovery, maintenance, viewing, and analysis of the entities in the model are highly automated by the Troux 4 platform. The TRM is also unique in that the highly detailed entities, attributes, and relationships captured in the model are based on the best practices of over 30 Troux Fortune 500 customer engagements. Further, the TRM can be readily configured to different naming schemes, standards, and classification systems making it easy to accelerate existing efforts.

By providing the first automated reference model of the enterprise that is fully supported by an enterprise class platform, Troux enables customers to define and implement critical IT initiatives in much less time with greater impact. Past experience has shown that 90% of the manual efforts to create and maintain an accurate, detailed, always up-to-date reference model can be eliminated using the TRM.

Organizations trying to identify and classify all elements in their infrastructure find that it is exceedingly difficult, and often fail to address the relationships between elements and the problems of collecting and querying the information once it is classified, yet it must be done.

"In today's evolving business environment, architecture is becoming a critical necessity. If the enterprise does not have the discipline to employ a consistent set of strategies, reference models and exchange capabilities, it will operate at an enormous disadvantage," stated Bill Rosser, research vice president at Gartner. "Full awareness of this, and making the successful case for justification of architecture, is vitally important."

"Based on the accumulated knowledge and best practices we've acquired from our customer deployments, we have identified the essential entities in a high level of detail, and automated the classification and analysis to support critical IT initiatives," said Bill Cason, chief architect for Troux. "In addition, the TRM is not just a stand-alone framework. The TRM is the architectural framework for the Troux 4 platform and solutions, which together automatically build, populate, and maintain a repository of architectural components and relationships, and provide customers with the ability to query, visualize, and generate reports and blueprints on their complete IT infrastructure. This combination greatly accelerates the time-to-value of IT initiatives."

The classification of all elements across the conceptual, logical, and physical layers of the enterprise provides visibility into IT for strategic initiatives in infrastructure management, risk management and compliance, and business value management. Governance tasks associated with the reference model such as pattern and policy compliance are automated. Planning tasks such as impact analysis, gap analysis, application rationalization and server optimization are supported by reports and analytics.

The TRM supports industry standards such as the Zachman Framework, DCML, TOGAF, and the Federal Enterprise Architecture. In a separate release, Troux announced its cooperation with the efforts of the DCML Organization to develop an industry standard language.

Based on a grammar and language that are easy to understand, configure, maintain, adapt, and expand, the TRM describes the entities, the relationships between entities, and the properties of those entities. The model covers entities in six domains, including infrastructure, initiatives, organizations, processes, applications, and locations.

The TRM works with the components in the Troux 4 platform to provide complete visibility into an IT infrastructure. Other components in the Troux 4 platform include the Troux Blueprinting System(TM), Troux Collectors(TM), the Troux Repository(TM), the Troux Blueprinting System(TM), the Troux IT Portal(TM), and the Troux Reporting System(TM). The model defined by the TRM uses Troux Collectors to gather information from scattered, authoritative data sources and automatically populate the Troux Repository making the connections between entities. The Troux Blueprinting System generates up-to-date blueprints and diagrams of a complete IT infrastructure based on the data in the Repository. The Troux IT Portal enables role-based views into the data, and the Troux Reporting System provides powerful web-based analysis, query and reporting.

About Troux

Troux Technologies (pronounced "True") is the leading provider of strategic IT management software and solutions that bridge the gap between IT and business architectures -- seamlessly linking IT infrastructure with business goals and processes. The Troux platform provides a complete integrated view of the end-to-end enterprise IT environment that supports a CIO's highest-priority strategic initiatives and increases the value IT delivers to its business customers.

Troux solutions combine best practices with the Troux platform enabling CIOs to transition their organizations from an operational focus to create strategic IT excellence. A well-established base of leading Global 2000 customers in financial services, insurance, telecommunications, manufacturing, consumer goods and pharmaceuticals are using the Troux platform and solutions to transform the role of IT, improve IT infrastructure/business alignment, minimize business and operational risk, and increase business value. For more information on the Troux platform and Troux solutions, please visit www.troux.com, or call Troux Technologies at 512-536-6270.

Copyright 2004 Troux Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Troux, Troux 3.0, Troux 4.0, Troux Blueprinting System, Troux IT Portal, Troux Reference Model, Troux Service Solutions and Troux Collectors are trademarks of Troux Technologies, Inc. All other company and product names mentioned are used only for identification and may be trademarks of their respective companies.