Through our academic partnership with UTS and global research efforts, Avolution has developed a ground-breaking methodology integrating the ABACUS solution to effectively solve complex and multidimensional problems.

Avolution's ABACUS improves the quality of architectural decision making by supporting system applications, infrastructure, and information to align with the business functions of an organisation, as well as the processes and standards that dictate and guide their evolution. The ABACUS® solution provided by Avolution approaches the challenges facing IT dependant organisations in the modern business climate by assessing and improving:

• Technical Organisational Architecture ;

• Business Processes; and

• Organisational Structure.

Avolution provides the following solutions utilising the ABACUS toolset and methodology:

IT Governance
Business Continuity & Strategic IT Planning
Regulatory Compliance
Financial Management & Reporting
Service Delivery Management

[ IT Governance ]

The ABACUS solution allows organisations to maximise the value of IT investments by providing:

• Process visibility and control;

• Portfolio management, analysis and planning;

• IT infrastructure/ operational management;

• Service management; and

• Regulatory compliance.

[ Business Continuity & Strategic Planning ]

The ABACUS solution allows for identification of critical risks, quantification of their potential impact, and development of viable recovery and restoration strategies.  This involves:

• Analysis and management of business risks and future impact upon the organisation;

• Effective maintenance of operations, services and communications with employees, customers, suppliers, and regulators ;

• Quantification of the financial impact of present and future risks ;

• Reviewing and improving existing strategies and guidelines ; and

• Creating and assessing key disaster recovery plans .

[ Regulatory Compliance ]

The ABACUS solution provides a proven framework to allow for organisations to:

• Establish policies and procedures for compliance to relevant regulations and accommodate new regulations ;

• Identify compliance risks for resolution and prevention;

• Incorporate auditing and analysis procedures ;

• Create processes that are efficient, sustainable and transparent ; and

• Accommodate enterprise-wide compliance with regulatory policies .

The ABACUS solution allows organisations visibility into their internal control procedures, thus allowing for efficient and effective regulatory compliance processes to be established, monitored and maintained.

[ Financial Management & Reporting ]

The ABACUS solution allows organisations to assess the quality, quantity and completeness of information and processes regarding financial management through:

• An auditing framework to quantitatively assess financial impact of relevant changes in the organisational environment;

• Metrics to analyse the architecture of an organisation and aid in architectural decision-making ;

• Monitoring of budgeting and resource allocation ; and

• Visualisation and reporting tools to communicate to all levels existing within organisation.

[ Service Delivery Management ]

The ABACUS solution provides a solid foundation for implementation of IT process frameworks to initiate business alignment and provide a way forward for service delivery enhancements. The toolset can be used to monitor and manage several key components of service delivery such as:

• Capacity Management;

• Financial Management for IT Services;

• Availability Management;

• Service Level Management; and

• IT Business Continuity Management.

The ABACUS solution ensures effective management of Service Delivery strategies to minimise impact upon service quality.