Troux Delivers Industry’s First Enterprise Platform to Support IT Transformation

• Troux Technologies, the leading provider of software solutions enabling successful business and IT transformations, today announced the availability of the industry’s first enterprise transformation platform, Troux 7.

• The new, comprehensive solution, based on the company’s market-leading Enterprise Architecture (EA) technology, addresses the primary objectives of all CIOs and executive leadership today – to deliberately and systematically reduce costs, manage risks and drive investments.

• Business transformations – such as global expansion, merger and acquisition or the creation of new product lines – cannot be implemented without triggering a set of IT activities to support the change.

• A major aspect of Troux 7 is the introduction of Troux Initiatives™. Troux Initiatives clarify how business transformations – and their associated IT projects – will impact the bottom line of the organization.

• Developed with design partners Warner Bros. and AMD, Troux’s transformation platform, combines visual modeling with a scalable metadata repository, and constantly collects data across the business. Coupled with Troux 7’s business intelligence capabilities which deliver reporting and analytics to decision makers and stakeholders, customers and partners can deliver value and leverage specific EA programs universally across all IT and business units.

• Troux Composer enables its customer subject-matter experts to quickly assemble solutions, without programming, which address specific transformation or management needs. With Troux Composer’s unique new capabilities, companies save significant time and financial investment by allowing them to reassemble and use specific constituent solutions for other lines of business or other clients served by the organization

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“Alignment of IT to the business continues to be the most critical challenge for CIOs. We’re seeing ongoing frustration from the business as IT struggles to be more agile and proactive in their support of business requirements. A key barrier to this is lack of visibility to the range of IT assets, the relationship among the assets and their relationship to the business,” said David Hood, CEO of Troux. “With Troux 7, we’ve created the only system with the complete set of capabilities for EA teams and IT departments to successfully automate the understanding of the enterprise and how IT relates to the business. Troux 7 delivers a rich analytics platform to create transformation initiatives, allowing gap and impact analysis in multiple scenarios to identify IT support requirements for the business. Coupled with a baseline transformation plan for business alignment and the mechanism to monitor execution over time to ensure effective support, once again Troux’s innovation delivers an unrivaled solution to the market.”

“Understanding the business resources you have – people, technology, processes, and relationships among others – is critical to knowing how they will be affected throughout business-mandated change such as corporate cost reduction,” said Doug Rousso, vice president of architecture for Warner Bros. “Troux Initiatives takes that a step further and allows executives to see how these business resources are affected before implementing change, helping them to avoid the hidden pitfalls that actually hinder productivity and increase costs.”

“For AMD IT, a central repository of IT Architecture information is a culture-changing paradigm. We have multiple lines of business that operate in a geographically dispersed environment, some of which are supported by local IT groups – yet they are often running into the same issues and resolving these issues independently,” said Tannia Dobbins, senior enterprise architect for Advance Micro Devices (AMD). “We are excited to work with Troux on version 7 of the platform as it allows us to document business strategies, requirements and technology standards into a central repository, which can then be reused among all lines of business and IT groups, saving us significant time and money.”