alfabet Continues Strategic Growth in the Global Automotive Sector with Business IT Management Capabilities

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- alfabet, the leading software provider for strategic IT planning and Business IT Management solutions, today announced its increased success in the automotive industry as evidenced by its work with its next large European automotive vendor. With this recent addition, three out of six of the top European automakers now rely on alfabet's Business IT Management and IT planning solutions to gain insight into their IT landscapes and plan future IT architectures. The company's ongoing work with the top European automakers, as well as automotive industry suppliers and vendors, will be the basis for initiatives in the American and Asian automotive markets.

alfabet has developed a strategic approach to providing Business IT Management capabilities to unite the enterprise architecture (EA) within organizations and enable the management of a unified bill of IT, to address key business and dependent challenges currently facing automakers and suppliers. These include:

1. Mergers and Acquisitions: With the consolidation or separation of brands and companies comes the challenge of consolidating or separating IT landscapes. alfabet helps customers effectively address the challenges of consolidating, separating and rationalizing application portfolios and IT infrastructures;  
2. Evolution of Business Model: As automakers evolve from "car companies" to "mobility providers," they need to build new capabilities with an increased focus on in-car IT. alfabet helps automakers effectively manage a unified bill of IT, and support their mass customization of the sales, manufacturing and distribution processes.
3. Globalization/Multi-Branding Strategies: As automotive markets grow and emerge and the industry becomes increasingly global, alfabet helps automakers blueprint IT architectures, manage strategic growth in the globalized market and handle IT needs across geographies and multiple brands;
4. Joint Ventures: As automakers expand into new markets and further integrate the supply chain, they must effectively develop joint ventures across geographies and optimize the capacity across the supply chain. alfabet helps automakers integrate, align, and optimize  IT landscapes around these joint ventures.

"Our ongoing work with 50 percent of the top European automakers demonstrates our expertise in this industry and the opportunity for success in the global automotive market," said Erik Masing, CEO, alfabet. "We have launched global initiatives to further increase alfabet's footprint in this strategic market, focusing on addressing automotive industry challenges by providing Business IT Management capabilities to help automakers unite their enterprise architectures and better align their IT landscapes with business processes."

About alfabet (www.alfabet.com)

Business IT Management is the task of ensuring that IT powers business success. It combines a deep understanding of the business and its strategy with the insight, planning and execution required to evolve the IT landscape. alfabet is the only vendor that has a comprehensive software suite named planningIT® that supports all aspects of Business IT Management – from accurate insight into the enterprise architecture to forecasting, risk management, compliance, road-mapping and execution

alfabet serves a global user community of more than 40,000 IT, Finance and Business professionals in more than 40 countries. Customers of alfabet include many of the Global 2,000 companies across a broad range of industries including financial services, automotive, telecommunications, logistics, and high-tech.  

Founded in 1997, alfabet is based in Berlin with U.S. Headquarters in Cambridge, Mass., and Asian operations based in Singapore.

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For further information:
alfabet AG
Jacqueline Routier
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