InQuisient Platform

The InQuisient Platform is positioned as a comprehensive enterprise strategic planning and data management solution that aims to unify various aspects of business operations. According to the vendor, it is specifically targeted at large-scale enterprises in both the federal and commercial sectors. The platform claims to be utilized by professionals in roles such as Enterprise Architects, Data Architects, Strategy Realization Directors, Change Realization Leaders, Risk Managers, IT Portfolio Managers, Executive Managers, CIOs, CEOs, COOs, and CFOs, as well as industries including Government Agencies, Federal PPM, Transportation & Logistics, Higher Education, and Communication Service Providers. The platform is said to enable enterprises to align their operations, increase business agility, and deliver tangible results.

Key Features

Agile Business Planning: According to the vendor, the platform allows users to create and share a unified enterprise strategy, manage changing priorities, align business and IT, gain total enterprise visibility, increase customer-centricity, deliver value more frequently, control cost, and reduce risk.

Digital Transformation: The platform claims to accelerate transformation and minimize disruption, manage hybrid or transitioning portfolios, facilitate product roadmapping, backlog management, Kanban team support, sprint support and tracking, provide support for multiple frameworks, and enable epic-based forecasting.

Business Process Optimization: The platform claims to offer capabilities such as process classification, risks heatmapping, compliance, quantitative analysis, use of qualitative and quantitative tools to classify processes, visualization of processes associated with the most risk, identification of processes not in compliance with control objectives, and simulation and analysis of alternate methods in a process.

Risk & Compliance: According to the vendor, the platform aims to optimize risk management and compliance through workflow-based monitoring and corrective-action functionality. It also claims to allow users to discover, classify, and document key data elements, provide detailed metadata and lineage for data governance, document data quality in the context of business systems and processes, increase compliance transparency through tracking protection status, automate subject access requests, and improve ROI while reducing costs.

Metadata Management: The platform positions itself as a powerful and unified metadata platform that claims to create a constant, reliable flow of knowledge and data. According to the vendor, it provides optimal support for business initiatives, serves as a self-service platform for all stakeholders, ensures a single source of data truth, offers advanced analytics and visualizations, supports data quality and governance, accelerates digital transformation, and provides data privacy and relational controls.

Application Rationalization: According to the vendor, the platform aims to reduce IT cost, complexity, and redundancy by optimizing and leveraging every aspect of the technology stack. It claims to standardize common technology platforms, improve ROI, reduce costs, and provide total visibility across the enterprise.

Integrated Portfolio Analyzer Plus: The platform is positioned as a comprehensive enterprise strategic planning and data management solution that unifies hybrid data integration and metadata management. It includes enterprise architecture and technology asset management capabilities, offers portfolio and project management capabilities, and enables risk modeling and process optimization in one platform.

Project Portfolio Management: The platform claims to centralize the management of business processes, methods, and technologies. According to the vendor, it enables stakeholders to analyze and collectively manage current or proposed projects, provides criteria or KPIs for project analysis and decision-making, and facilitates collaboration and better work together across the enterprise.

Enterprise Architecture: According to the vendor, the platform provides a holistic view of the organization's structure, processes, and technology. It aims to help align business and IT strategies, enable effective planning and decision-making, support the identification of duplicated capabilities and projects, and assist in assessing existing systems prior to acquiring new capabilities.