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Category: Business Alignment

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Manufacturing and Education Templates Available

We‘re pleased to announce that the two latest industry templates have been released in IT Planning Studio.  They are education and manufacturing.  These templates enable clients in these industries to build accurate depictions of their Business Value Chain (BVC) more quickly.  As with any industry template, both the education and manufacturing BVCs include business function and [...]

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Meeting the Challenges of Implementing Enterprise Architecture

Meeting the Challenges of Implementing Enterprise Architecture

How many of you EAs out there have struggled or are struggling with EA implementations?  It’s challenging and we know that far too many Enterprise Architecture implementations stall when it comes to rolling it out beyond a small IT organization.  One of the key elements in structuring an effective EA program is the elusive Business [...]

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Fujitsu Press Release

Fujitsu Press Release

This press releases announces the new partnership of Adaptivity and Fujitsu! Charlotte, NC – April 21, 2011 – Adaptivity, The IT Blueprint Company, which provides IT blueprinting services and software to enable intelligent decisions across the infrastructure design, build and deployment lifecycles, announced today that Fujitsu America has entered into an OEM agreement for the [...]

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Building a Simple, Useful Business Model

Building a Simple, Useful Business Model

We’ve seen different IT organizations do many different things when it comes to modeling business requirements.  Some consider that part of the “Business Architecture”, some do workshops for every project as it starts, some task the service managers with the role of understanding their customer’s needs.  With all these different techniques, many companies still have [...]

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Viewing Application Descrepency Blueprint

IT Planning Studio Officially Released

Adaptivity is pleased to announce the official release of our IT Planning Studio.  The IT Planning Studio has a number of built-in features that will be useful to all of our clients: Create an Actionable Business Architecture: The IT Planning Studio has an easy-to-use business architecture editing tool that facilitates our business value chain model. [...]

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HDS Press Release

HDS Press Release

Adaptivity created a custom version of our Design Studio product for HDS.  Here’s the press release: Charlotte, NC – November 2, 2010 – Adaptivity, The IT Blueprint Company, that provides an IT blueprinting software suite to enable companies to make intelligent decisions and integrate implementation actions announced today that Hitachi Data Systems Corporation has licensed [...]

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Adaptivity Design Studio: Open Data Center Edition

Adaptivity Design Studio: Open Data Center Edition

“Adaptivity’s Design Studio: Open Data Center Edition is designed to aid an IT Designer with the planning & implementation of cloud-based applications. The Adaptivity Design Studio: Open Data Center Edition is a wizard-driven software platform that assists the user in making prescriptive design and implementation decisions in building secure and efficient applications in the cloud.” [...]

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Infrastructure Ensemble Recommendations from Design Studio Classic

How Do Adaptivity’s Tools Know What Infrastructure to Select?

A lot of times we get asked, how does your software select the appropriate ensemble (set of infrastructure) for a particular workload?  It’s one we’re happy to get, because we have put a lot of work into figuring out the right way to do it. When the company first started, the effort was very manual [...]

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Tuning a Workload Quality Profile to Balance Business and Application Requirements

Defining the Workload: Combining Business and Application Knowledge

As we move in to a cloudier and cloudier IT landscape, defining the workload is going to be more and more important.  It’s critical not only for reducing cost (what services can this workload do without?  How much capacity?), but also for increasing performance and agility. A workload is a tricky thing to define and [...]

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