ABACUS® is a powerful tool for modelling, understanding, and analysing complex enterprises across people, process and technology. Using world leading, patented technology, ABACUS® analyses the trade-offs between multiple architectures and helps enterprises achieve the optimal roadmap prior to investment.

ABACUS® has demonstrated the following high-level benefits:

• Rapid bid production, solution design or project support by simple drag-and-drop of existing/common patterns/solutions;
• Increased client perception by re-use / exploitation of best-practice solutions;
• Faster time from project initiation to design review for projects, programmes, transformations;
• Seamless hand-over from bid to delivery team of a consistent model;
• More accurate and reliable recommendations from the architecture team thereby minimising the risk of making “wrong” or costly decisions;
• Greater re-use of existing solutions/resources;
• Consistency across domains/accounts to maximise knowledge and resource sharing; and
• Maximum efficiency gains due to expert knowledge and application.

Furthermore, the following tangible benefits have been declared by ABACUS® certified practitioners:

• 3 months analysis exercise reduced from 3 months to 3 weeks;
• Delivery of a fully costed solution architecture for a bid in a single day, as opposed to a minimum of 3-4 weeks - 15x to 20x improvement;
• 20-30% better success rate of proposals due to the quality and accuracy of the recommendations from ABACUS;
• 3x reduction in the project initiation to review time-cycle;
• Up to 50% reduction in architecture office resources to output the same (and in most cases better) support to the business;
• Avoidance of additional costs through making a wrong decision through gut-feelings;
• Exploitation of a common meta-model with a predicted overall 10-20% efficiency improvement across the board; and
• 2x productivity increase by “parachuting in” centralised ABACUS experts.