Key Facts
- Enterprise & Fastlane editions — scalable to your maturity level
- Covers application portfolio, EA management and strategic IT planning
- Now part of Bizzdesign — merged with MEGA International for broader EA coverage
- Used by EA teams, CIOs and portfolio managers
What we do on Alfabet
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Platform configuration |
IMeta-model, access structure and integration points aligned to your EA framework and governance requirements. |
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Application portfolio management |
Lifecycle status, business fit, technical health and rationalization candidates governed in one environment. |
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Capability & roadmap modelling |
Map business strategies, capabilities, applications and initiatives into structured roadmaps that connect today's landscape to tomorrow's target state. |
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Impact analysis & scenario planning |
Identify risks and redundancies across applications and technologies, and model transformation scenarios before committing to investment decisions. |
EA governance & data quality | Ownership rules, quality workflows and the routines that keep your content trustworthy over time. |
Reporting & dashboards | Heat maps, portfolio views and stakeholder dashboards that make architecture visible and useful for leadership. |
Use Cases
The enterprise architecture team maintains one version. IT finance has another. The CIO's office has a third. None of them agree on which applications are active, which are being decommissioned, and which are duplicates of each other. Every investment decision, every migration project, every vendor negotiation starts with a data reconciliation exercise that takes weeks and still ends in uncertainty.
We implement Alfabet as the single governed source of truth for your application landscape. That means migrating the data that is worth keeping, establishing the ownership model that determines who updates what and when, and configuring the quality rules that flag inconsistencies before they propagate. The first visible result is usually a portfolio view that leadership can actually read and act on — not a spreadsheet with 47 tabs, but a live map of what you have, what it costs, what it supports, and what needs to change.
A merger, a cloud migration, or a major platform consolidation always surfaces the same problem: nobody has a reliable picture of the current application landscape, so decisions about what to keep, retire or replace are made on politics rather than data. The cost of getting it wrong is significant — redundant licences, failed migrations, integration surprises, and technical debt that follows you into the new model.
We populate and structure the Alfabet landscape before rationalization decisions are made. We model application lifecycles, business fit scores and technical health assessments, then run the overlap analysis that shows where redundancy exists and what the consolidation options are. The output is not a recommendation slide — it is a governed dataset in Alfabet that your architecture, finance and programme teams can interrogate together, with roadmap scenarios attached so you can model the consequences of different decisions before committing to them.
EA teams often sit on rich knowledge about the application landscape but struggle to translate it into the language that gets traction with leadership: investment decisions, risk exposure, strategic alignment. The architecture exists in the tool, but the narrative that connects it to business priorities does not — so EA stays in its lane and roadmaps get built elsewhere, without architecture input.
We configure the capability and initiative layers in Alfabet so that business strategy and IT landscape speak the same language in the same platform. We build the dashboards and reports that surface portfolio health, alignment gaps and investment priorities in terms leadership can act on — heat maps, lifecycle views, scenario comparisons. EA stops being a documentation function and becomes a decision-support capability. That shift does not happen by itself — it requires both the right platform configuration and the governance model that keeps the data current enough to be trusted.
Our expertise
Our Alfabet work starts with the architecture model, not the tool configuration. We bring EA advisory depth to every implementation — which means less rework, cleaner governance and an environment that reflects how your organization actually thinks about its architecture. We have worked with EA teams navigating large portfolio complexity, M&A integration and governance maturity challenges across multiple industries.