17.07.07 - ABACUS is TOGAF certified

Licensed ABACUS users can download the ABACUS - TOGAF library for free from the Avolution Community.

Through its certification from The Open Group, Avolution can provide customers with assurance that ABACUS conforms to industry best-practice open standards. This means that organisations who want to base their Enterprise or Solution Architectures on TOGAF 8 can utilise ABACUS, as well as Avolution's training, professional services and partners, for this purpose.

"Avolution, with its research partner, the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), have a long history of standards participation." said Dr Tim O'Neill, founder of Avolution. "Through the 90s, the founders of Avolution (through UTS) were instrumental in developing THE international standard on architecture, IEEE 1471-2000. More recently, Avolution itself has been proud to have contributed to the most popular industry standard on architecture, the evolving TOGAF standard."

In addition to TOGAF 8, ABACUS also supports a plethora of other frameworks and notations including; Zachman, DoDAF/MoDAF, FEAF, Capgemini IAF and BPMN to name a few. And most importantly, ABACUS' true ontological approach means that meta-models are very easily modified or created. All through simple 'right-clicks' in the standard GUI in a matter of minutes.

For further details please contact Avolution Sales on sales@avolution.com.au.

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About Avolution
Avolution provides the ABACUS® solution which is unique to the enterprise modeling 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, Cost and Agility. In so doing it can recommend the optimal path for investment, with predictive and quantitative certainty. More information is available at www.avolution.eu.

• Build any number of solution alternatives and views all according to a completely flexible meta-model.
• Analyse your architecture(s) for metrics such as; Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Performance, Availability, Agility and many more.
• View the architecture(s) and the results of any evaluation using advanced techniques such as; 3D, heat maps, capability spaces and trade-off diagrams.

About the Open Group
The Open Group is a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral consortium, which drives the creation of Boundaryless Information Flow™ that will enable access to integrated information within and between enterprises based on open standards and global interoperability. The Open Group works with customers, suppliers, consortia and other standard bodies. Its role is to capture, understand and address current and emerging requirements, establish policies and share best practices; to facilitate interoperability, develop consensus, and evolve and integrate specifications and open source technologies; to offer a comprehensive set of services to enhance the operational efficiency of consortia; and to operate the industry’s premier certification service. For more information, visit www.opengroup.org.