Many factors contribute to the complexity of managing changes in IT systems: a changing business environment, de-centralized IT organizations, system heterogeneity, multiple vendors with different technology lifecycles. Project management and spreadsheet applications for planning the evolutions of enterprise IT systems are of limited effectiveness in terms of maintaining dependencies and performing impact analysis on a large scale.
Using IT planning provides the tools necessary to depict a time-dependent view of application, service and IT asset portfolio management. Using the concept of IT master plans, IT planning enables scenario comparisons and impact analysis in order to produce accurate forecasting of the effects of change within the IT environment. As a result, enterprises can better align IT investments with business strategy.
You will learn how to:
- Plan the evolution of IT systems by consolidating IT management information in an enterprise repository with the full range of data and dependencies, for complete visualization and reporting capabilities
- Make well-informed decisions about strategic IT asset allocation by comparing different scenarios and performing in-depth impact analysis
- Demonstrate alignment of IT investments with business strategy to executives by integrating the vision of IT master plans with Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Analysis perspectives
IT Architects and Strategists rely on IT planning to manage road maps in relation with strategic enterprise objectives and risks. The IT Master Plans allow IT managers to clarify how the business and IT demands affect each other and to communicate about it.
Featured Speaker
Dan Hebda
VP Operations,
MEGA North America