17.06.10 - Ovum rates ABACUS as a stand out
Ovum's Mark Blowers and Nishant Singh have recently published a Technology Audit on ABACUS stating that ABACUS "stands out in the enterprise-architecture and business process management space on the basis of its strength in architecture-based analysis and its inherent flexibility"."The flexibility of the Avolution approach provides a much larger number of standard architectural frameworks compared to other modeling solution providers. The solution permits users to create new libraries or merge existing libraries to create an organization-specific framework in 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".
Furthermore, Ovum "is 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", "its focus on metric-based evaluation of architecture options and scenarios is what makes it stand out" and "providing scenario analysis is a strong competitive differentiator from the rest of the market".
"As a strong enterprise modeling solution, ABACUS offers value beyond enterprise architecture for medium-sized and large enterprises, software companies, and SIs" and overall, "ABACUS is a solution well aligned with the requirements not only of enterprise architecture, but also a variety of infrastructure initiatives and process-optimization 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 modelling 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 Availability. 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, importing from MS Visio, MS Excel and many other formats.
- 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, timelines, lifecycles, capability spaces and trade-off diagrams.
