11.06.08 - Butler Group rates ABACUS as a pioneer

Butler Group's Mark Blowers has recently published a Technology Audit on ABACUS citing ABACUS as "a pioneer in the Enterprise Architecture modelling space and relevant to a wide range of companies in the enterprise, software, and System Integrator (SI) sectors".

"The flexibility of the Avolution approach manifests in a much larger number of standard architectural frameworks available compared to other modelling solution providers. The solution permits users to create new libraries, as well as merging existing libraries, to create an organisation specific framework in a matter of minutes ... using simple ‘right-clicks’ in the standard User Interface, as opposed to making changes to the internal database that many modelling tools need to do."

Specifically, Butler Group "is impressed with the range of infrastructure data sources supported and the data import/export mechanism", "is very impressed with the visual richness of the 2D and 3D models, including the component and connector iconography and the intuitiveness of the charts and graphs" and "really likes the company’s focus on metrics-based evaluation".

"Unlike a lot of focused modelling solutions, ABACUS is aimed on enabling the individual architect to quickly define architecture models and perform trade off simulations, and therefore installation does not involve the usual model building phase" and "overall, ABACUS is a solution well aligned with the requirements not only of Enterprise Architecture, but potentially for a variety of infrastructure initiatives and process optimisation projects".

For further details please contact Sales on sales@avolution.com.au and please download the full report here.

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.