Alfabet FastLane 11.2 IR

Alfabet FastLane release 11.2 IR (Innovation Release) continues Alfabet's journey to provide an easy and joyful end-user experience aimed to remove the barriers of adoption in the user community. The functional scope of Alfabet FastLane release 11.2 IR has been extended and new functionality has been integrated in the user interface to further ease data maintenance and analysis. With Alfabet FastLane 11.2, you can make informed business decisions about your IT architecture based on up-to-date and accurate data. Out-of-the-box analytics address business questions that provide meaningful insight to your IT architecture and the interdependencies of applications and technology in the business.

Alfabet FastLane release 11.2 IR is available as a cloud-based application and accessible via Microsoft® Edge®, Chrome™, Firefox™ 109 and higher, and Apple® Safari® web browsers. No system set-up is required. Minimal configuration allows you to extend the indicators, roles, and custom attributes that reflect you company's needs. You can begin straightaway.

Alfabet 11 introduces a completely overhauled, clean, modern, and intuitive user interface:

  • Standardized navigation provides immediate access to your favorites and your most recently touched objects and ensures you can quickly get your hands on all IT assets captured for your company's business, application, information, and technology architectures. Easy search capability allows you to find any IT asset in your repository directly in the home page.
  • Powerful and smart data workbenches enable you to capture and maintain your data as a single source of truth in the company. Sorting and moving columns in the data workbench as well as advanced filtering options gives you the control to see the data how you want to see it, and global settings ensure that you don't need to repeatedly set the same filters in other views in Alfabet FastLane.

    Data workbenches support inline editing and the simultaneous update of multiple data entries at once (bulk update) in order to streamline the efforts of keeping data up-to-date and accurate. Dedicated data quality reports are available for every data workbench and provide links that take you directly to the location where you can promptly fix the data quality issue.

    Every data workbench includes a data table - where you decide which data is relevant for you at the moment - and additional out-of-the-box graphics that allow you to visualize your data according to your needs. Graphic visualizations include Kanban reports, Gantt charts (timelines), bar charts, pie charts, doughnut charts, line charts, spline charts, radar charts, area charts, spline area charts, and waterfall charts. Kanban reports and Gantt charts support drag-and-drop to simplify planning efforts of the IT architecture.

  • Analytics focus on the most business-relevant questions in order to help you know where to focus change efforts to execute your company's strategy. Business questions are out-of-the-box visualizations that provide answers about the as-is state of your application, technology, and investment portfolios. Each business question includes analytics that provide answers to your most critical issues as well as views that allow you to understand and update the relevant data. To name just a few business questions in Alfabet FastLane:
    • What should we be focusing on? 
    • What is our technical debt? 
    • What are our investment/retirement candidates? 
    • What is our roadmap? 
    • How will IT failure impact our business? 
    • What is our cloud migration strategy? 
    • What is our project budget? 
  • Preconfigured user profiles allow the right user to access the right functionalities and the right data. The following user profiles are available with Alfabet FastLane:
    • Portfolio Admin

      This user profile is for superusers who are responsible to carry out administrative tasks. It provides exclusive access to views that are required for user and account management, data import for all relevant IT assets, and the customization of indicator types to evaluate your data, role types to capture responsibilities for IT assets, and custom attributes that are relevant to your company's data requirements. Notifications provide easy access to administrative users to log information about maintenance jobs that run in the background.

    • Portfolio Manager

      This user profile is for users who are responsible to input and maintain data relevant for IT portfolio management. It provides access to analytics based on relevant business questions and to the data workbenches that allow that data to be maintained and understood in detail. Users with this profile have read/write permissions to all objects that they have authorized access to via the user group definition.

    • Portfolio Analyst (formally Viewer )

      This user profile is for users who are interested in seeing up-to-date analytics about the IT portfolio in order to understand the most business-relevant questions and make informed strategic decisions. Users logging in with this user profile have read-only access permissions to all business questions and can see the detailed data for all objects that they have authorized access to via the user group definition.

    • Application Manager

      This user profile is for users responsible for capturing and maintaining data relevant for the application portfolio management.

    • Technology Manager

      This user profile is for users responsible for capturing and maintaining data relevant for the technology portfolio management.

Alfabet FastLane release 11.2 IR is an Innovation Release.

In future releases, the data and analytics documented in Alfabet FastLane can be migrated to Alfabet Accelerator or integrated in Alfabet Enterprise Edition for complete enterprise architecture management and IT portfolio management. For details regarding the maintenance policy for innovation releases at Software AG, see https://empower.softwareag.com/rz_images/SAG%20Maintenance%20Policy.pdf

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