Horizons IT Architecture Service (ITAS) enables organizations to control their IT assets and align them with their business requirements. Using advanced technology based on semantic networks, logic, and set theory, HS consultants will help you integrate in one repository all models and information of your technology components. These components can be interrelated to other business elements such as processes, performance measures, and strategic elements. ITAS can be used to identify gaps in the organization technology components and in its alignment with business requirements. The use of standard EA frameworks such as IT Assets Framework and Technology Reference Models enable organization to assure completeness of its assets inventory, and help navigate these assets from different points of views. Cost models can be developed to assess the financial performance of organizations technology assets. IT Architecture portals are produced and connected to other systems to help the IT staff and their stakeholders manage change and perform what-if scenarios. IT architecture repository can be an integral part of Change Management of new technology projects.

Business Benefits:
1. Maintain a central repository in which all IT Architecture components (systems, information, network, infrastructure) models can be integrated and updated using formal methods.
2. Develop governance elements such as standards, policies, and IT management principles.
3. Visually navigate the repository models using a variety of ways and from different points of views.
3. Use your own visual icons and standards to build your models. Many graphical capabilities exist to produce beautiful presentations while keeping the power of formal definitions.
4. Compute Impact of Change and manage change across the organization from the As-Is to the To-Be state.
5. Deliver IT architecture products in web portals, XML Files, word documents, or any other format or the combination of any of the above.

Main Features:
1. Visual models and tools are used to build IT architecture models.
2. Integrated models and multiple views of the same element.
3. Single location update of elements.
4. Enforcement of Architecture constraints and rules while building the models.
5. Support of IT Architecture Frameworks and methods.
6. Support of technology Reference Models.
7. Web Portal reports of all work products.
8. Textual and XML reports of architecture components
9. Analysis and computational reports
10.Multiple ways of linking IT components and elements to existing documents and files.
11.Import of structured information from existing files and databases.

Customizability:
1. Customization of ITA service is quite powerful and Horizons Team can customize the service to use customers own methods, standards or a combination of this and other standard approaches.
2. Customizable reports can be used to perform variety of tasks including visual navigation as well as computation and analysis reports.
3. EA work products such as portals can be linked to other applications running at the customers site.

Lets Get Technical:
Horizons IT service uses Ptech Framework Family of products to implement its EA solutions. Customers with desire to maintain and update their EA models can acquire Framework licenses. Framework runs either in single mode or in Teamwork mode and can be installed on any PC with Windows 2000/XP and 256M RAM. Concurrent licensing schemes are also available

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