Troux Staff

By: Ben Geller, VP Marketing, Troux

Despite its somewhat rocky start, Enterprise Architecture is now often referred to as a burgeoning field. With its origins dating back to the 60s, perhaps EA was ahead of its time when it emerged as framework used to optimize systems and technology for the business. Today, as information moves to the cloud, datacenters become defined by software, and mobile devices take over the world, that primary goal for EA initiatives has become front and center.

Businesses not only need to ensure they are fully optimized for the here and now, but they need to be prepared to make rapid changes and keep up with the pace of the future. Enterprise Architecture can help companies visualize how to make that happen and spotlight the decisions that need to be made to get there. That, I think we can all agree on.

As a result of the recent proliferation of personal technology, the rise in self-service models and the evolution of digital services we have all become technology “experts.” Technology is no longer strictly the domain of the IT department, as every function of the business uses it and everyone wants a say in the decisions that are made surrounding it. This has sparked an ongoing debate about who should now “own” the practice of EA. On the IT side, there is a lot of techy stuff to figure out and it only gets more complex as the pace of innovation accelerates. On the business side, technology now has a significant impact on results and the argument can be made that EA should live with the business decision makers.

As Arthur Cole mentions in his recent post for ITBusinessEdge, for IT, the barbarians are at the gate. Where once there was no question that business decisions should be made at the C-level and these technology decisions should be left up to the tech professionals, there are many reasonable arguments for people across the business to have their seat at the EA table.

Perhaps this shouldn’t be a debate at all. There are a lot of good points being made on both sides of the argument – but when it all nets out – meaningful decisions no longer affect one part of the enterprise.  The enterprise is now connected – it is no longer adequate to live with labels of the past, thinking of IT and the Business as separate entities with different agendas.  Now, more than ever it is important for stakeholders across the connected enterprise to realize that – EA is free – everyone owns it.

Businesses are and will continue to struggle with seeing through the complexity to make well-informed decisions… at any level.  A proper EA program can equip decision makers with the most comprehensive view of their business and provide them with the ability to better understand the impact of change, cost of change and benefit of change across the connected enterprise. Gaining this visibility before developing and implementing a plan for change is what should be driving the discussion in the corner offices – not where EA should live.  

The sooner business leaders embrace EA as a routine part of their decision making process the better – for all parties involved.  When done right, EA enables the enterprise to define better strategies and ensure better execution.  Better decisions and better execution deliver better results. Again, something we can all agree on!

Learn how the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation worked with Troux to reduce complexity, control costs and speed decision-making through alignment of Business and IT: http://resources.troux.com/cdcr

 

 

 

Ben Geller, VP Marketing, Troux

No doubt about it, Big Data is big business.  Big Data has certainly captured the imagination and wallets of business executives everywhere.  In fact, Gartner estimates that Big Data drove $34 billion in worldwide IT spending last year.*  With that kind of money being spent, it’s probably safe to say Big Data is a big deal.

That said, I’m sure you are familiar with all of the old adages about BIG versus LITTLE.  You know the sayings… “Less is sometimes more,” “Good things come in small packages,” or even “A little bit goes a long way.”   These time-tested sayings hold a lot of truth – even when it comes to data.

I have to admit, I find the current attraction to Big Data kind of amusing – here’s why.  One of the most common red flags raised when I talk to industry professionals about our Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM) solution is concern about the difficulty associated with gathering ALL that data.  After all, data collection is hard and time-consuming.  Most companies have a tough enough time figuring out where the data lives, much less how to gather it in a meaningful way.  So why is Big Data so big?  And is bigger always better when it comes to data that impacts your decision making processes? 

Despite all the buzz around Big Data, it’s essential to understand that answering some of the business’ most important questions actually doesn’t require a lot of data.  In fact, I would venture to say the answers to some of the most important questions only require “just enough data.”  Using Troux’s EPM solutions “just enough data” can provide the insights needed to ensure the enterprise is correctly architected to maximize revenues, reduce costs and increase competitive agility.  “Just enough data” can help business leaders better understand the cost of change, impact of change and benefit of change before significant investments are made.

Because we focus on “just enough data,” our clients get answers sooner and see results more quickly.   Simply stated, “just enough data” can yield just as much benefit when compared to what companies seek to achieve with Big Data.

Don’t get me wrong.  There is a time and a place for everything, and it is hard to ignore the virtues and promise of the untapped insights that Big Data is positioned to deliver.  But in the midst of all the Big Data hype and hoopla, let’s make sure we remember, big things can be done with “just enough data” as well.

Want to know more about gleaning “just enough data” from your enterprise? Read how CHEP started their EPM program by putting together a simple catalog of applications and technologies. That easy-to-compile list of information sets them up for continued success in their quest to see the big picture.

To read the full CHEP case study, click here.

 

*http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2200815

Ben Geller, VP Marketing, Troux

Organizations big and small are getting comfortable with the idea of having business applications run in the cloud. It’s now common and even standard for new software and applications to be consumed as a service. But when it comes to moving mission critical legacy apps to the cloud, a lot more is at stake. Is anyone really ready? There will be a point when this shift happens, as it is already in motion for many organizations, and business leaders need to understand the implications that come along with making the heavy decision to lighten up with cloud.

There are important questions that should be answered ahead of moving business applications and important functions to a cloud environment. Some companies choose to dive head first, making major changes without appropriate data to support the move. Others test the water and become paralyzed by the uncertainty and hesitate to move forward – A recent poll of IT professionals indicated that 19% of cloud owners take more than 12 months to plan a project. In today’s world, that is way too long by anyone’s standards.

A mature Enterprise Architecture practice that focuses on decision making in the context of company strategy and key business capabilities can predict how these areas will be impacted by change and can help eliminate the looming question marks. Business and IT professionals can make wise, informed cloud-migration decisions before it is too late to turn back, and those held back by fear can move forward with confidence.

Here are four important questions to consider when moving legacy applications that your business currently relies on to the cloud – and how EA and Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM) solutions can help provide answers as you begin your cloud journey.

1. Will this move help my business better execute against strategy?
This is a crucial step that is often overlooked due to the new and exciting draw of the cloud. Don’t be too quick to make the move just because everybody’s doing it. Take appropriate measures to ensure your business will gain value from the benefits the cloud can offer. Moving applications to the cloud should improve your ability to execute against current and future business objectives. An EPM solution can help ensure your cloud strategy is in line with corporate goals and bring your business closer to the desired outcome.

2. What business capabilities will be impacted?
A common misconception is that an app running in the cloud versus your data center will provide the exact same experience for the end user. While the functionality will strive to be similar, there will likely be business processes that need to adapt. An EPM solution can help identify these differences and illustrate how they might affect current business capabilities.

3. What information is impacted?
Will running applications in the cloud violate information management rules and regulations? Do the systems planned for migration contain confidential or sensitive information? Data and information security continues to be a big consideration for cloud initiatives. Use EPM to gain visibility and transparency over applications and information to determine the benefit of shifting from the data center and ensure cloud initiatives are in line with your information security policies. 

4. What risk does this introduce to the business and how can they be mitigated?
It is unlikely that an organization will move entirely to the cloud. There will always be certain applications that are just meant to remain where they are. Often these decisions are based heavily on levels of risk. An EPM solution can weigh the risks and rewards of various cloud scenarios, ensuring you land on a cloud strategy that is optimized for your particular business needs.

When it comes to cloud, there is no need for trial and error, crossing your fingers or hesitation. The practice of Enterprise Architecture and looking at the world through the lens of Enterprise Portfolio Management is developed specifically for this type of situation. Take a holistic view of your assets, resources, data and business objectives and get the answers you need to make informed and confident decisions about your cloud strategy.

Interested in how an Enterprise Portfolio Management solution can help you determine the best route to cloud success? Download our cloud decision making mindmap below or visit http://www.troux.com/problems_we_solve/it_portfolio_management/cloud/ for additional resources.

 

 

 

 

By: Ben Geller, VP Marketing, Troux

The Economist recently published an interesting article about what seems to be a new consolidation movement amongst the major strategy consulting firms and operations specialists in a effort to offer both strategy and execution services. Traditionally, within enterprises and throughout the consulting industry, strategy and operations initiatives have taken shape completely apart from one another. The author of the article paints a fairly stark contrast between strategy consultancies, which he characterizes as companies with highly-paid partners who whisper counsel into the ears of CEOs, and operations specialists — such as outsourcers and big consulting and accounting firms – who “employ armies of lower-paid grunts and tend to answer to the client firm’s finance or tech chiefs”.

At Troux, we’ve always viewed this type of thinking as problematic.  In order to run the most effective, agile, and productive organization, it is critical to bring business and technology decision makers together. By creating arbitrary divisions between ‘strategists’ and those actually responsible for execution, businesses risk potential inefficiencies, or worse, losing sight of the common goal.

Back to the article. The author notes there is some regulatory risk in this movement to consolidate; however, the fact that the world’s largest accounting and consulting firms are now performing acquisitions and developing plans to bring these disciplines together is important. Perhaps we were on to something after all. Enterprises the world over are now demanding a model that we’ve believed since our inception; one in which strategy and execution work hand in hand.

Troux has partnerships with consultancies and outsourcers large and small around the world, including ATOS, CSC, KPMG, Logicalis, PwC and many other well-known firms. These partners rely on Troux Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM) solutions to connect business context to IT and help business leaders make smart strategy decisions. The result means executives gain clear line-of-sight across the entire IT landscape, better understand which assets are needed to function, operate and grow their business, and make well-informed investment and divestment decisions.

As consulting firms and IT outsourcers strive to evolve the business value they deliver and meet the demands of an increasingly complex enterprise customer, they are pointing to Enterprise Portfolio Management as a significant differentiator. EPM uniquely provides the contextual insight for the ‘connected enterprise’ enabling a sustainable way to improve agility, optimize investments and reduce risks — all benefits demanded by global enterprises today.

We knew all along that bringing the strategy and execution discussions together was a wise thing to do, but it’s always nice to see our approach validated by the biggest names in the industry.

Check out our OnDemand webinars and see how Troux customers such as Bayer, Cisco and Fidelity have successfully coupled business strategy and IT operations.

By: Ben Geller, VP Marketing, Troux

December 5^th is International Day of the Ninja. Sure, you can dress in black and carry around a set of nunchucks to play the part, but, we all know that’s just subterfuge. And, Halloween was a month ago. Instead, turn yourself into a decision-making ninja, a la Enterprise Portfolio Management (c’mon, you’re reading the Troux blog, you knew that was coming, right?).

We’re going to prepare you for the International Ninja Day by turning you into the decision-making ninja you’ve always dreamed of being – sorry, wall scaling not included.

Step #1: Laser Focus. The decision-making ninja’s laser focus let’s them hone in on the business questions that need to be answered to better function, grow, and compete in the marketplace. Troux’s tools and experts help professionals do just that with tools like the Troux Mind Map. The Mind Map remedies one of the biggest challenges we see in business today: identifying the most important questions the business needs to answer and effectively relaying that to the involved stakeholders, regardless of their business acumen and tech savvy. The Mind Map gets everyone speaking the same language, allowing business leaders to focus on what’s needed right now.  Learn more about this decision-making ninja tool by reading, You Don’t Have to be a Psychic to Read our Mind Map

Step #2:  Agility.  Agility means maximizing your time; the decision-making ninja accomplishes this by knowing what data they need, which isn’t easy. We see it happen all the time: pros get excited about all the data can gather and pretty soon they are sinking in information quicksand. Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM) gives business decision-making the tools and resources to stay focused and agile, only capturing the data that’s needed.  No more, no less – the ninja way. Mitigate the information overload trap with these tips: How to avoid this common mistake with your EA program – Part III: Just say no to modeling the universe.

Step #3: Foresight.  At the end of the day, it’s all about getting to the answers that drive success. The first two steps make it possible to size up the situation – then, the decision-making ninja springs into action with the foresight gained. EPM helps leaders make more informed business and technology strategy decisions based on insights from the key areas that characterize their business.  For more on how EPM helps you better navigate the decision-making process read Doing the Right Thing vs. Doing Things Right. 

Happy Ninja Day. If you do wear all black to work on Thursday, please tweet us a picture. That’s just something we’d have to see.

For more information on Troux’s Enterprise Portfolio Management, please click here. 

By: Ben Geller, VP Marketing, Troux

I discovered over the weekend that November 9th was Chaos Never Dies Day. According to one description, “Chaos Never Dies Day takes the stance that the perfect, quiet moment we’re all striving for and anticipating doesn’t – and likely never will – exist, and that we should make the most of now, chaos-and-all, and embrace the moment.”

What a perfect time to reflect upon the seemingly never-ending quest to manage change and chaos within the enterprise. Keeping with the spirit of the holiday, perhaps an appropriate approach is to embrace and optimize chaos rather than seek to eliminate it from our lives.

At Troux, we help temper chaos by providing our customers with Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM) solutions to implement and maintain a successful Enterprise Architecture (EA) program. Done right, EA can empower organizations to analyze the chaos and make smart decisions across operational and transformational initiatives.

Navigating your way through massive amounts of data and technological change coming from various silos to get to a set of relevant, complete, accurate, and timely information has historically created decision-making challenges in business. Today that problem grows more acute as the pace and breadth of change increases and expands. Since these dynamics affect the entire enterprise, it’s important that decisions are made with an understanding of the connected enterprise – not in isolation. Leaders need business context to understand how each decision impacts the whole of enterprise.

With Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM), organizations move from chaos to harmony by understanding and optimizing the connected set of enterprise portfolios: goals and strategies, business architecture, applications, technology, information, and investments. With a full scope of your assets – both tangible and intangible – you can understand how change affects all parts of your connected enterprise.

It’s that simple… and that involved. It isn’t an easy task and everyone must be onboard to make it work. But, it can work. We have seen it time and again.

Take a look at some how our customers leveraged EPM to embrace the chaos:

Mosaic – The Fast Track to Success: Mosaic is a multi-billion dollar global Fortune 500 company that helps the world grow the food it needs.  When the company’s CIO laid out a vision for IT a plan was developed to support the change from a tactical approach to decision-making toward a strategic approach that would focus on business outcomes and measurable contribution to Mosaic’s long-term success.  Mosaic partnered with Troux to establish an Application Portfolio Management program that identified millions of dollars in recurring cost savings in just 17 weeks.

Scottish Widows Investment Partnership – Transparency Across the Connected Enterprise: Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) is one of Europe’s largest asset management companies and part of Lloyds Banking Group. Managing funds worth more than £145 billion.  When business leaders decided to significantly increase their change budget, strategic planners knew they would need access to improved decision making data and level of transparency across the enterprise they never had before.   Engaging with Troux, SWIP embarked on holistic approach and was able to capture and store mission-critical decision making data from across the enterprise in just 12 week.

It’s not easy to function amid chaos, and it is next to impossible to eliminate it, but at Troux we believe in finding ways to make chaos work for you.

 

By: Ben Geller, VP Marketing, Troux

 

Obviously, important strategic planning and decision making should not be driven by palm reading or a crystal ball. But, what if I told you that you have all the information right at your fingertips?

Let Your Data Be Your Medium

The business world runs on data. Whether you are analyzing customer behavior, looking at trends across departments, or just keeping track of applications, information and projects, today’s technology driven culture results in massive amounts of collected data.

Understanding how all the data points relate to and impact one another means we don’t have to rely on reading the tea leaves to make a wise decision. Every day we see business leaders use empirical data more and more to make decisions that affect their business and its customers. But as the amount of data increases exponentially in volume and complexity, extracting valuable and actionable information becomes a difficult task.

At Troux we find that the biggest challenge for our customers is figuring out what information is important and understanding how that information can be presented to other stakeholders to promote better decision-making.  It is our experience that a mind map usually does the trick.

Seeking Answers

Creating a mind map does not require the use of electrodes or hypnosis. We simply work with our customers to identify the business outcomes they seek.  The ability to achieve these outcomes can usually be tied to finding the answers to important questions.

Our mind map is a simple way to illustrate this approach – showing how the answers to important question drives desired business outcomes.   Mind maps are powerful tools that can be used to communicate Enterprise Architecture strategy and results to key stakeholders, regardless of their technical prowess or business acumen. They allow everyone to easily get on the same page and look at all the moving parts that affect the desired outcome, no matter how many or how complex.  

Find the answers that you seek with a visualization or analytic report created and maintained through Troux solutions. It’s our own version of a crystal ball… based on the facts –  packaged to reveal and predict.

Take a look at our Mind Map here

 

 

 

By: Ben Geller, VP Marketing, Troux

Remember The X-Files? For an hour each week we got to suspend reality as Mulder and Scully chased answers in a world of the paranormal, complete with UFOs, aliens, and conspiracy theories. We see a lot of Mulders (The Believer) and Scullys (The Skeptic) when touting the value of Enterprise Architecture to the business. To honor International Skeptics Day, I’m going in search of the Truth in Enterprise Architecture.

Unfortunately, EA still carries shall we say a ‘less-than-positive’ stigma with some people, particularly with those who had a bad experience when EA came onto the scene. While the theory of EA has always been sound, many organizations failed on execution, leaving people to doubt or misunderstand the value. It’s not about drawing models or creating a lot of good-looking artifacts.  Today’s Enterprise Architecture is now being positioned by thought leaders in the business and IT to help their organizations better manage the growing complexity and the accelerating pace of change to ensure they deliver the best outcomes – for reducing costs, decreasing risk, and/or improving competitive agility.

The proven EA approach spans a multitude of operational and transformational levels from business-centric cases to IT centric cases. Enterprise architecture EA isn’t about designing pictures on paper (can you say crop circles ?), it’s about designing patterns and structures which the business can use to navigate complexity and achieve alignment to achieve success.

Still skeptical? It’s ok, it is the day for that, after all. But the evidence stacks up to make the case for the EA comeback. See for yourself:

• FEAPO – Federation of Enterprise Architecture Professional Organizations. FEAPO has brought together organizations from all over the world to provide a forum to standardize, professionalize, and advance the discipline of Enterprise Architecture. A much anticipated perspective paper on the discipline of EA, developed through collaboration and agreement of all the member organizations, is expected to publish in mid-November.

• Penn State University sees a future in EA. The university’s Center for Enterprise Architecture focuses on directing attention and resources to the critical issue of co-designing the IT infrastructure and business logic. The center puts special focus on the College’s on-going efforts to develop new curricula at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Other universities are following suit to ensure there is an experienced workforce to fill the EA demand.

• There are waves and quadrants dedicated to Enterprise Architecture tools from the top two independent industry analyst firms and a multitude of analysts from other technology firms that closely follow the space.

• This week InfoWorld and Forrester Research, in collaboration with Penn State University Center for Enterprise Architecture, presented the Enterprise Architecture Awards to recognize companies whose practice of EA has delivered substantial business benefit. Watch the webinar to learn about one winner’s success: Cisco: Leveraging Business Architecture for Corporate Agility.

• Businesses are seeing results. Check out the long list of case studies from global companies that have had significant success with their EA initiatives.

The X-Files were fun, but we’ll likely never know its truth from fiction. But, with Enterprise Architecture, you can find the answers to make your business a success. Data doesn’t lie. Even Scully can’t argue with that.

By: Ben Geller, VP Marketing, Troux

Staying organized is getting harder and harder as emerging and disruptive technologies continue to derail our concentration every minute of every day. Our brains can only hold so much, so it’s not a surprise that in today’s technology-driven world we find ourselves misplacing items, forgetting lunch dates, not returning phone calls – the list goes on and on. We simply have too much stimuli.

Just for Fun: Count the number of email pings that interrupt you while you read this. Count the IMs and / or text messages. What about those distracting pop-ups or animated gifs from other sites that might be open. And, that doesn’t even consider social media, mobile apps, and the like. Keep a rough tally, just for some perspective.

Luckily simple to complex workarounds exist to keep us on task. Close your email client for a designated amount of time. Turn your mobile to silent and flip it over (it only hurts for a minute). Close your web browser, your IM, and any other applications that make noise or pop up.

While we can’t exactly remind you about that Q4 planning meeting later this week, we can help you neatly organize your Applications and IT portfolios and show the connection back to the business capabilities they support. This organization and clarity helps business leaders make better decisions.

Troux Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM) solution provides the visibility you need to better understand your IT and Business landscape. In turn, you can make quicker, more informed business decisions with a management discipline that enables you to understand and optimize the assets that are important to your business.

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By: Ben Geller, VP Marketing, Troux

If you are like the majority of Americans, you probably started your day with a cup of Joe. This Sunday, September 29^th, is National Coffee Day; a day to celebrate the drink that clears the fog, charges us up in the morning, and at times keeps us going throughout the day.

According to the National Coffee Association’s 2013 online survey, 83 percent of U.S. adults drink coffee and 63 percent of Americans drink it every day. No wonder there is a Starbucks on every street corner. We need our morning boost.

As my colleagues gathered around the coffee pot , it got me thinking: what business solutions do professionals rely on for their necessary kick? In this day and age, where would we be without companies like Google and Bing for things as simple as research and as complex as web analytics? And, what about our smart phones, which allow us to stay connected and get work done anywhere at any time? We’re in a fast-paced world where our daily jolts have suddenly become imperative to success.

Like a dose of caffeine, Troux also provides added clarity and a boost in productivity with our Enterprise Portfolio Management software. Our solutions lift the fog to help customers gain new levels of visibility into how IT resources are spread across the business, allowing them to make better business decisions. Better decisions lead to higher efficiencies which lead to a much sought after jump in productivity.

A serving of Troux helps our CIO customers assess what they have, what is actually needed to support business strategy and what can simply go away. If something isn’t needed, we provide a plan to get rid of it quickly and safely. And we can figure all of these things out real fast. That should get any business person buzzing!

Troux is a powerful engine to make quick, valuable decisions, just like your morning cup of Joe. Mugs up!

In honor of National Coffee Day, we’re getting a round at Starbucks for 20 of our coffee drinking friends. Tell us on Twitter (@trouxsoftware) what would happen if we took your coffee away, hashtag #WithoutCoffee.  The first 20 responses will get e-certificates for Starbucks.

 

Ben Geller, VP Marketing, Troux

 

I read over the weekend that Google recently turned 15 years old. While the exact date the search giant came into existence is essentially a matter of opinion, and the company moves the celebration each year to a convenient date, reflecting on the accomplishments of this organization since 1998 never ceases to impress.

Any business 101 course will tell you the foundation of a solid company is to solve a problem (like answering any question you can possibly dream up), for a cost that people are willing to pay (how about free?). The team at Google, or “Backrub” as it was first called, created a tool that allowed people to discreetly ask the genie behind the curtain anything they wanted. And the tool only got better and better as the vast amount of data on the Web grew exponentially over time.

The Google search engine now logs an average of 2 billion searches daily. The company name is commonly used as a verb for asking the Internet about anything from when John Zachman was born to how many EA frameworks exist (more than 40 according to wikipedia). Thinking back to what was not so long ago in the grand scheme of existence, answering these types of questions would require hunting down a wise human expert or heading to the reference section of the library. Hardly instantaneous, particularly if your needs were time sensitive.

While we would not suggest our brand be recognized with consumer innovation powerhouses like Google, at Troux we have similarly invented a better way of doing things in our own world.  Like Backrub and its “webcrawler” providing visibility across the internet, Troux provides visibility and important insights from across the entire enterprise. Consumers use search engines to find answers and at Troux we provide answers to our customers’ complex business questions and show the impact decisions will have before they are implemented.  This means enterprise leaders can make smart decisions about business and technology strategy.

However, we’re more than just a search tool, Troux EPM Solutions take it one step further to show enterprises where to make better business and technology decisions , while optimizing for maximum agility, minimum cost and minimum risk. Rather than being based on an ever changing secret algorithm, our technology is designed to provide the best visibility and answers for aligning your technology environment with the strategic needs of your business.

Now if someone could take the power of Google’s search engine and answer the age of old question of which came first Business Process or Business Capability– that would really change the world. For now, at Troux, we’ve got the important business decisions covered so you can focus on weeding through the 16.8 million results returned on your search for “EA best practices.”

Ben Geller, VP Marketing, Troux

 

Today we’re excited to welcome a new partner in Europe, Atos Germany. Atos is an international information technology services company with an annual revenue of $11.6 billion US and 76,400 employees in 47 countries. 

Atos brings experience in strategic planning, transforming and running massive IT landscapes with many moving parts and stakeholders across a multitude of functions. A shining example of this is the work that Atos has done for the past twenty years as the Worldwide IT Partner and Lead Integrator for the Olympic and Paralympic games. There are very few IT projects on Earth that require an IT services company to set up operations every two years in completely unknown territory and then deliver on an extraordinary scale under the scrutiny of the entire world.

At Troux, we are eager to join forces with such an impressive organization. Combined with Troux’s expertise in helping business leaders make more informed strategy decisions by connecting business context to IT, the new partnership will provide customers of both companies with advanced IT solutions and outsourcing services with a global reach.

Like the athletes that come from all corners of the earth to participate in the Olympic Games, IT organizations cannot stand still gaining extra weight and failing to improve efficiency and peak performance. To remain relevant, agile and lean, IT needs to continuously assess and improve how it functions and what people, processes and technology are necessary for an optimal environment.

Together with Atos, we give executives a clear line-of-sight across the entire IT landscape, to better understand which assets are needed to function at its best and to make well- informed investment and divestment decisions focused on the needs of the business. 

For more details on the Troux and Atos partnership, please visit our press room.