Avolution ABACUS vs. IBM InfoSphere Information Server vs. MEGA HOPEX Platform

Well suited scenarios include IT portfolio management, project portfolio management, enterprise architecture planning, modeling of business capabilities, using standard frameworks that ship out of the box such as TOGAF, and integration with SharePoint. Less appropriate scenarios would be detailed data modeling and using the tool expecting to get model drive code execution.

Incentivized

Information Server is extremely useful to replace manual developments that require a lot of coding effort. It significantly increases the productivity of the initial development and the future maintenance of the processes since it has a visual development environment with self-documentation.

MEGA is well suited for

• Service Architecture definition

• Service relationships

• Service that supports process and vice versa

• Business process definition

• Definition of Business Entities

• Management of business entities

• Business Entity managed by services

• Creation of service reports

MEGA is less appropriate for:

• Business Service management information (who is “developing, responsible, etc.” for business services)

• Business services contracts

• Business services performance management

Incentivized

• Modelling the Enterprise through the creation of catalogues and matrices of Enterprise information
• Creation of views to supports strategy execution and decision making
• Central storage of Enterprise information
• Management of a agreed meta model

Incentivized

• IIS best for ETL ,not ELT , and many and diffrent source systems.
• It also can process big data , unstuctured data
• It is not only DWH , you can use infosphere for analys and see the bigger architecture of your OLTP systems

Incentivized

• Define business architecture
• Design processes
• Tailoring business services attributes

Incentivized

• More standard connectors for integration with other modeling tools could be beneficial for companies having legacy tools/fragmented toolsets.
• Better automated diagramming features would be useful.

Incentivized

• I would be nice to have a new web development environment for DataStage.
• Connectivity Packs such as Pack for SAP Application are a little pricey.
• It is confusing for new developers the possibility of developing jobs using different execution engines such as Parallel or Server.

Incentivized

• API for external use
• Query engine (join between metaclass)
• Export tools
• Web site generator

Incentivized

• Scale of implementation
• IBM techsupport

Incentivized

Highly knowledgable team and fast response times

Incentivized

- Microsoft tools are manual and data is not centralized

- ARIS is not as flexible as Avolution

- LeanIX is close, but lacks business content/accelerators that Avolution provides

- LeanIX is in the cloud and multi-user

Incentivized

DataStage is more robust and stable than ODI The ability to perform complex transformations or implement business rules is much more developed in DS

In the software selection, we evaluate also
Enterprise Architect; but it was evaluated non enough easy to use. Open source software are non available.

Incentivized

• Positive - time to value for EA activities
• Positive - robust decision making

Incentivized

• Productivity of the development of integration processes.
• Better documentation and governance.
• Reduce training costs of various technologies.

• Only positive impact in all departments

Incentivized