Insight-EA Overview. Fios-Insight, LLC FIOS Insight, LLC

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1 Insight-EA Overview Fios-Insight, LLC FIOS Insight, LLC

2 Insight EA At-a-Glance Insight-EA is a very flexible toolset, capable of solving many business and technical scenarios Business Architecture Business Strategy Capability Maps Value Streams Process Design Organization Design Information Architecture Data Lake Metadata Catalog Data Quality Business Rules Data Lifecycle Models Enterprise Architecture Application Portfolio Rationalization Process & Organizational Rationalization Enterprise Standards and Models FIOS Insight, LLC 2018 page 2

3 Insight-EA Advantages How does Insight-EA compare to our competitors? Traditional Competitors Benefit Insight-EA SaaS High (servers, database, etc) Cost of Deployment Low (per-use subscription) Slow (local configuration) Speed of Deployment Fast (typical setup <1 hour) High (Large capital cost, M&S) Cost of Ownership Low (total less than competitors M&S) Slow (typically a large amount of setup) Time to Value Fast (clients up and running in a day) Difficult (training and configuration required) Ease of Use Easy (out-of-the-box-functionality) Complicated (proprietary data, contract) Ease of Exit Smooth (cancel subscription, export) Complex and expensive External Access Simple and affordable via open API FIOS Insight, LLC 2018 page 3

4 The Microsoft Conundrum Let s face it, spreadsheets add value but are used to their limits on a daily basis; there is a better way Consultants typically gather information into spreadsheets Pivot table analysis within spreadsheets has limitations Complication not easily understood amongst project stakeholders Transferring to visualizations in Visio and PowerPoint is awkward and point-in-time Publication/Integration of analysis results to SharePoint for broader exposure is weak Insight-EA allows project information to be collected by spreadsheets designed to gather as oppose to analyze simpler for all project members to use Analysis via visualization begins very soon after drag and drop integration with spreadsheets is leveraged and data is in repository Insight-EA reduces point-in-time orientation in favor of ever-green capability Once data is in the repository it can be used for all projects, repeatedly over time FIOS Insight, LLC 2018 page 4

5 Insight-EA Strengths Differentiators and features that position Insight-EA as the tool of choice in today s complex environment Powerful meta model provides virtually unlimited flexibility and scalability Visualization of relationships, dependencies, heat maps, roadmaps and other models and reports Easy to load information manually, from existing spreadsheets, or via automation Surveys delivers evergreen information gathering capability via crowd sourcing Minimal setup and training time needed to deliver value Accelerator tool for multiple consulting and implementation projects FIOS Insight, LLC 2018 page 5

6 Business Architecture and Strategy Comprehensive modeling and reporting covering everything from high-level Strategy and Capabilities through to detailed Process Modeling and Stakeholder Mapping Capability, Organization, Information and Value Stream Maps provide foundation for Heat Maps Detailed Process Modeling, BPMN level 1, 2 and 3 (user-selectable) Strategy Maps and Strategy Capability Networks Projects, Initiatives, Products, Services, Business Rules, Stakeholders, Org Units etc. Reporting including Orphaned Object and Project Timeline FIOS Insight, LLC 2018 page 6

7 Application Portfolio Rationalization A set of integrated and intuitive tools make Insight-EA the perfect partner for accelerating the collection and validation of your IT and Application Inventory, and analytics to discover value and opportunities within the enterprise Comprehensive survey builder and distribution tool Rich, user-extensible repository allows collection of Application, Data Center and Technology data at many related levels Analytics tools including Application Value Map and Technology Roadmap give powerful visualization capabilities FIOS Insight, LLC 2018 page 7

8 Enterprise Architecture Standards and Models Insight-EA provides an ideal, centralized repository for an organization s EA standards, documentation and models Fully integrated with other Insight-EA capability areas Technology, Vendor and Data Center inventories are all cross-referenceable Reporting and visualization to drive dashboarding and analytics API and import/export capabilities for integration with other CMDB, incident management and reporting tools FIOS Insight, LLC 2018 page 8

9 Information and Data Management Insight-EA provides a rich set of cataloging tools and models to allow everything from Business Taxonomies to physical Database Columns to be captured, modeled and cross-referenced Create and maintain inventories at multiple levels of abstraction: Business Terms and Glossary Information Objects and Data Items Datastores Database Tables and Columns Cross-referencing to Applications, Processes, Capabilities, Technologies and other object types Reports showing Data Redundancy and conflict reports, Information Usage etc. Business and Data Rules, Interaction Models and Event Models all build the foundation for Master Data Management and Data Governance FIOS Insight, LLC 2018 page 9