overview

In todays business climate, CIOs are facing mounting pressure to restructure costs and respond to business changes such
as mergers and acquisitions and divestitures. Never before has there been so much urgency to demonstrate total control of IT
spending: eliminating redundant costs much faster than before, ensuring resources and spend are aligned to the business while
improving overall response to business needs. With Troux software, CIOs are making all this happen faster. They get new levels of
visibility into the complex web of resources, programs and business architecture so they can see instantly where IT spending and
programs are redundant or out of step with business strategy. They then use Troux to plan and manage the necessary changes,
with live status information and guidance to all relevant employees and executives.

the challenge
Nobody needs to be reminded that todays business climate is changing faster than ever. The credit crunch, financial meltdown and
recession fears of 2008 have heralded a new wave of strategic business changes that no one could have anticipated. From mergers
and acquisitions to nationalization; new regulatory compliance to rapid restructuring CIOs must root out IT waste and accelerate
the deployment of competitive new business capabilities.
However, CIOs often face the following realities:
Poor visibility and control lead to IT waste: Years of growth often leads to large-scale duplication of applications, infrastructure,
skills and services. For example, as a result of this IT sprawl, you may no longer have the enterprise visibility to understand what
applications you have, which ones you support, how the applications are related and where there is risk. The same holds true for
vendor contracts. What you cant see, you cant begin to control, and this means millions of dollars lost on redundant, low-value and
under-utilized IT assets
Lack of standards control results in slow business responses: Informal, ad-hoc management of technology and process standards
make it difficult to leverage existing IT assets and designs. As a result, IT architects and planners have to reinvent the wheel for every
new project, and because you dont have insight into proven designs, business strategies, application dependencies or application
lifecycles, rollouts can take too long and cost too much.
Disconnect between IT and the business frustrates business strategies: Siloed information about people, tools processes as well as
organizational goals and strategies prevent IT from aligning its roadmaps and initiatives with specific corporate goals and strategies.
In fact, CIOs often cant even map IT spend to specific business capabilities, making it hard to demonstrate in business terms the
strategic value of IT.

The bottom line: CIOs are struggling to deliver the cost savings and agility required to support business. What you need is
enterprise-wide visibility and control into how IT directly supports your business strategies and capabilities. You need to
make fast, accurate business decisions so you can aggressively slash costs without incurring operational risk, standardize and
simplify the IT infrastructure, and deliver timely and insightful data to the fingertips of all IT and business stakeholders.

the solution
Troux 8, the latest business-critical software suite from Troux Technologies, is designed to address todays urgent CIO agendas, and
introduce ongoing IT management discipline. With Troux 8, you gain the visibility and control to:

Identify and eliminate redundant IT spending - Uncovers the many

untapped opportunities to free up unneeded spend and apply it
either to your bottom line or to support new business initiatives.

Uncover and fix business/IT disconnects - Shows how IT directly

supports your business strategies and capabilities and ensures
that mismatched spending can be eliminated. With Troux, you can
think like a CFO and demonstrate control and business purpose
for the billions that you spend by ensuring that all stakeholders
have full information to hand.

Speed business response and simplify IT - Speeds the creation

and deployment of a set of standard, reusable building blocks
that are proven to work in agile business cycles. With Troux 8, you
can work with the business in real time and no longer wait three
months for your team to come up with a plan.

Dynamic visualizations quickly show the cost of the

resources that enable each business capability.

You will see the business value within days of applying Troux Strategic IT Planning and Control software along with an agile
methodology and support team. Leveraging our market-leading software and its rich out-of-the-box capabilities, you can ensure that
your most important priorities are addressed first.

troux 8 suite
The Troux 8 suite consists of four out-of-the-box business applications Troux Alignment, Troux Optimization, Troux
Standards and Troux eaGov all leveraging power and business intelligence from the Troux Transformation Platform to help
IT respond to priority business change and cost-restructuring agendas:

alignment

optimization

standards

Troux Alignment helps CIOs to achieve business/IT integration

quickly through enhanced financial transparency and

eaGov

control, prioritization of goals and strategies, impact analysis,

transformation roadmapping and precise coordination of planning
activities.

transformation platform

composer

Troux Optimization helps CIOs to mine wasteful spending by

optimizing the IT portfolio assets including applications, Web

metaverse
intelligence

integrity

architect

services and contracts throughout the enterprise all while easily

initiatives

semantics

explorer

communicating the impact of portfolio rationalization on the

business.

collection

Troux Standards helps to simplify IT, reduce business risks and

accelerate project planning and deployment success agility by
cataloging and enforcing standards, providing lifecycle roadmaps,

Troux 8 is not only designed to address todays urgent

CIO priorities, but it also introduces ongoing IT
management discipline.

identifying non-compliant elements and offering reusable designs.

Troux eaGov helps government agencies create actionable Enterprise Architecture and comply with constantly changing mandates.

Troux Transformation Platform is the business-driven EA platform. It captures and stores the latest data about how applications,
technologies, processes and people, relate to one another and to overall business objectives. This scalable and flexible
enterprise-class platform not only enables advanced data sharing and management across a common architecture, it empowers
role-based business intelligence, modeling and scenario planning and stakeholder communication. You can also leverage the
Troux Transformation Platform to extend and configure the user experience using Trouxs unique Composer technologies. Only
the Troux Transformation Platform delivers the unrivalled power and agility required to support EA and strategic IT planning and
control requirements.

STRATEGIC INFORMATION

Troux Integration with the IT Ecosystem

By integrating Troux 8 into your IT planning ecosystem,

Financial
Management

you gain an unprecedented level of visibility into how IT

assets align to the business. Troux interfaces to Project

Governance, IT Service Management, and Application

Lifecycle Management software to share the same

BP Analytics and
Management

RUN THE BUSINESS

and Management, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

SOA Governance
ALM

powerful data-management, modeling and stakeholder

ITSM

communication capabilities.

Project
and Portfolio
Management

New in Troux 8 - Troux CA Clarity Connection

delivers a new level of integration by going beyond
data integration to unify strategic IT planning, EA

OPERATIONAL INFORMATION

and project portfolio management (PPM) processes.

Strategic IT Planning and Control also gives a strategic
enterprise context to all planning disciplines.

Troux Services
Troux offers a package of professional services including deployment,
training, project-management and best-practices consulting to accelerate
the time-to-value of your Troux solution. With TEAM (Troux Enterprise Agile
Methodology), you gain the experience of Troux consultants, architects, project
managers, quality engineers and technical support engineers all adhering to
a set of agile, optimized and repeatable methodologies and best practices.

CHANGE THE BUSINESS

& Portfolio Management, Business Process Analysis

Strategic
IT Planning
and Control

the benefits
The Troux 8 suite of applications supported by the Troux Transformation Platform and optionally deployed with the help of Troux
Services help IT deliver business value quickly and on a continuous basis while addressing todays CIOs urgent agendas:

Reduce Costs

Cut IT spending by reducing waste eliminate the number of unnecessary applications, contracts and more

Enable global standards and best-practices of existing IT assets

Lower the costs of IT planning cycles

Minimize Risks

Control execution from end to end

Understand the impact of business and IT changes

Address non-standard technologies that create business risks

Improve regulatory compliance

Enhance Business Agility

Support key business decisions with one-click intelligence

Improve time-to-market with new products and services

through faster delivery of business capabilities

Anticipate change by roadmapping transformations with

dynamic visualizations

Execute with precision by coordinating all planning activities

Sample output from the Forrester Certified Troux 8

ROI Model shows benefits and expected impact from
each Troux application.

TEI compliance statement.

Troux Technologies commissioned Forrester to review this ROI model in July 2008 using its proprietary Total Economic Impact methodology. Forrester deems that this ROI model
conforms to the TEI fundamentals and principles of a sound business case. The intent is for Troux Technologies to guide prospects through the questionnaire to solicit inputs specific to your
business and technology environment. Troux Technologies is not permitted to change the calculations or equations. Forrester believes that this analysis is representative of what companies
may achieve with Troux Technologies based on the inputs provided and any assumptions made. Forrester does not endorse Troux Technologies or its offerings

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