At Troux we work hard to provide not only the deepest EA functionality in the industry, but the methodologies and services to make our customers successful. We also have a passion and a vision for the role that EA can play in aligning IT with the business.
That’s why we’re thrilled to see Forrester Research mention all those attributes as it ranked our Troux 9 Suite the top current offering in EA Management Suites. Troux was also cited as a leader among a comprehensive set of vendors and products evaluated in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Architecture Management Suites, Q2 2011.
The Forrester Wave is based on an evaluation of 10 of the leading EAMS vendors across 89 criteria. In addition to garnering the top score for its Current Offering, Troux also rated strongest for Standards and Application Portfolio Management. Among other comments, the report said “the company is also a thought leader that takes the approach that the right way to message and evangelize the market is by addressing direct EA issues such as standards, application decommissioning, and data center consolidation. These features are based on strong configuration management database (CMDB) and PPM interface.”
We were also pleased to see the report recognize that the EA Management Suite could be the next center of the IT management universe. Among the reasons cited by Forrester:
- “An EAMS supports a broader set of roles outside the EA group. EAMSes provide a support to numerous IT and business roles, such as CIO, the project management office (PMO), heads of development and operations, IT strategists, risk managers, IT procurement, among others.”
- “An EAMS centralizes the most-strategic information on IT and business. EAMS artifacts are expanding from data, process, and organizational models into budgets, strategies, risks, and other information categories.”
- “BSM (business service management) and PPM(project portfolio management) failed to become the center of the IT management universe. Many PPM and BSM projects achieved only relative success – and some failed. This fact as well as the momentum around IT planning and road mapping are signs that the focus for the ‘industrialization of IT’ is reorienting toward EAMS.”
Beyond the recognition for us, it’s good to see EAMS getting the recognition it deserves within the broader IT universe. It reinforces our belief that the EA and Business Technology Management category is a must have for Global 2000 companies today. It’s also worth noting that all this praise came even before we extended our capabilities with the shipment of the new Troux 9.1 suite last month.
Thanks also to our clients, without whom this would not have been possible, and to download a copy of the report please click here.
