FAQ

The best way to explain the IT Blueprint is to describe an Architectural Blueprint. When a building Architect designs a new house there is a package of drawings which describe how to construct that house. Each drawing has a very specific audience in mind. There is a set of framing drawings for the framers, electrical drawings for the electricians, plumbing drawings for the plumbers, etc… The Blueprints ensure that everyone involved in building the house understands exactly what needs to be done. Blueprints nearly eliminate confusion, maximize efficiency and minimize risk. The same concept holds true with IT Architecture. Building out an IT infrastructure which will support an application or workload is just like building a house in that there are multiple groups which are responsible for the different components coming together to work in harmony. Server, network, storage, application, and management teams all need a different view that is tailored to their tasks. In today’s IT organizations a tremendous amount of time is wasted because each team is left to figure out what needs to be implemented based upon a vague description provided by a central management organization. This creates confusion, waste and risk. Avoid all of those problems by planning and designing your next application environment using Blueprint4IT. Contact us today to learn more or click here to jump to the Blueprint4IT product page.

Cloud computing has opened up a new world of possibilities for running your applications. While it is great to have the ability to process your workloads without having to invest in your own infrastructure there are many potential pitfalls. Latency, privacy, risk, and responsiveness are just a few of the considerations you need to explore before dropping an application into the cloud. Our experts have been building and on-boarding applications to the cloud since the days before it was even called a cloud. Our software is able to algorithmically determine which of your applications are a good fit for cloud computing, what type of cloud environment is most suitable to run your workload, and how big the environment should be based upon historical and expected utilization. Don’t make the wrong decisions about your applications cloud suitability, use Adaptivity’s Cloud Accelerator and be sure you made the right choice. Contact us today to learn more or click here to visit the Cloud Accelerator product page.

After deciding that your application is a good candidate for cloud computing the next daunting task is to determine which type of cloud is most suitable for your workloads. Can you take advantage of a public cloud? Is there a business requirement that forces you to use an internal private cloud? Is there an opportunity to leverage a hybrid model where certain workloads stay in your private cloud but other workloads are processed out in a public cloud? Do you know all of the factors that need to go into making the right decision? The Adaptivity Cloud accelerator walks you through this process in a simple but thorough workflow. After you have answered a series of question which describe your business and technical requirements our software is able to algorithmically determine what type of cloud environment is most suitable to run your workload. Don’t make the wrong decisions about your applications cloud suitability, use Adaptivity’s Cloud Accelerator and be sure you made the right choice. Contact us today to learn more or click here to visit the Cloud Accelerator product page.

Knowing which applications to move to the cloud and what type of cloud environment to use is only part of the equation for a successful cloud migration. Knowing the proper starting point for component sizing will help realize the cost benefits you are looking for from your cloud implementation. Size you cloud environment too small and your business could suffer due to poor responsiveness. Size your environment too big and you’re paying for resources you don’t need. Elasticity is a key tenet of cloud computing but you still need to find the proper starting point. Our software is able to algorithmically determine how big the environment should be based upon historical and/or expected utilization. Get your cloud deployment off to the right start using Adaptivity’s Cloud Accelerator. Contact us today to learn more or click here to visit the Cloud Accelerator product page.

The Business Value Chain (BVC) is a method of decomposing your business into logical groupings containing business functions and business activities. This is a key concept for proper IT planning and design so keep reading… Traditional IT planning and design utilizes the concept of business requirements but there is rarely if ever a systematic method of defining the business requirements and mapping them to technology components. Adaptivity has developed an extensible, repeatable, scalable methodology of unifying business drivers with technology supply giving unprecedented levels of clarity and accuracy to IT planning and design. You’ll be amazed at what you uncover about your exiting application portfolio and how easily all new designs account for business drivers. Blueprint4IT will take your IT planning and design to the next level. Contact us today to learn more or click here to jump to the Blueprint4IT product page.

Would you build a house without a set of blueprints? Of course not! What if your set of house blueprints was missing the electrical system sheets? What if your house blueprints were only a set of framing sheets? Engineering and implementing components of a new design during the building phase is time consuming, wasteful, expensive and risky. The problem is that IT implementations are almost always based upon partial information and documentation. It’s no wonder most of the IT budget is assigned to dealing with problems during and after implementation of new systems and services. If you spend a little more time and effort during the planning phase you end up with a better design. If your design is automatically rendered into all the necessary blueprint sheets required for implementation you are doing even better. Blueprint4IT’s planning and design tools give you all of these capabilities and more. Contact us today to learn more or click here to jump to the Blueprint4IT product page.

Adaptivity’s IT Planning Studio makes it easy to define your business using the concept of the Business Value Chain (BVC). The BVC enables mapping of new or existing applications to the business activities they directly support. Each business activity has a set of associated business and technology requirements which directly link to the mapped applications. Simple right? The really difficult part is making use of this information programmatically and applying it to your design. This is where Adaptivity’s many patents around IT planning and design come to the rescue. Our software will ensure all of the business and technology requirements are accounted for in the final design. Contact us today to learn more or click here to jump to the Blueprint4IT product page.

• Are you considering a cloud migration, data center migration or data center optimization?
• Do you have applications that are nearing end of life?
• Do you know all of your application interdependencies?

There are many tools which collect data that can be used to tell you the boundaries of an application and what that application is connected to but they all fall short in creating actionable, intelligent information. At Adaptivity, we transform data from one or many sources into visual information that is relevant to your task. We use our own software tools for services engagements as well as offer our software directly to end users so they can build the capability in house. Contact us today to learn more or click here to jump to the Blueprint as a Service page.

There’s no magic behind our ability to rapidly and accurately assess current state in tremendous detail. The simple fact is that we utilize the same software products that we offer directly to our customers. Our software is capable of consuming data from just about any source and combining it with data from any of your other sources during our data enrichment process. Once the data is of sufficient quality our automated Blueprint engine takes over and transforms the data into actionable intelligence. If for some reason the output doesn’t look right there’s no need to worry. Correct the data and generate your Blueprints again. The combination of data enrichment and automation saves massive amounts of time and effort. Contact us today to learn more or click here to jump to the Blueprint as a Service page.

Application portfolio rationalization is the process of examining your entire application portfolio against the functionality provided to the business. Here are some of the questions answered during this process:

• How many and which applications directly support the same business activities?
• Are there any business activities currently without supporting applications?
• What can be optimized into business and technology services?
• Do any of my upcoming End of Life applications expose my business to unnecessary risk?
• Are my business drivers and IT supply properly aligned? (ex. Business activity requires high availability (HA) but supporting application does not have HA)

Finally, your CIO and CTO have the tools they need to make decisions based upon ALL of the relevant information, ALL in one place. Contact us today to learn more or click here to jump to the Blueprint4IT product page.