Cambridge, Mass., November 24, 2011 – alfabet, a leading provider of strategic IT planning and Business IT Management solutions, today announced the recipients of the
Excellence in planningIT Awards 2011, who were honored at this year’s
planningIT eXchange in Berlin. The Excellence in planningIT Awards were established by alfabet AG to acknowledge the growing importance of Business IT Management in the strategic alignment of enterprise objectives and IT. Since their inception in 2006, the awards have honored and showcased the most innovative and successful implementations of alfabet’s planningIT around the world.
The alfabet Excellence in planningIT Awards 2011 recognize outstanding performance in five key categories:
- Best in Class: Master Planning
- Excellence in Collaboration
- Excellence in Innovation
- Excellence in Execution
- Partner Excellence
DAIMLER AG, one of the world’s most successful automotive companies, received the
Excellence in planningIT Award 2011 for
Best in Class: Master Planning. With alfabet’s Business IT Management solution, Daimler has been able to gain deep insight into its enterprise application landscape and historical data, determining heterogeneous developments and redundant functionality.
The Excellence in planningIT Award 2011 for Excellence in Collaboration went to
JPMorgan Chase & Co., a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.3 trillion and operations in more than 60 countries. The company was recognized for their achievement in forming, cultivating and implementing cross-functional collaboration leading to outstanding breadth and depth of stakeholder adoption and for the workflow processes implemented.
Evonik Industries AG received this year’s
Excellence in planningIT Award 2011 in the category
Excellence in Innovation. It is using planningIT as a Business IT Management tool for IT planning and for establishing one common streamlined and harmonized enterprise architecture across its business processes, functions and services. Evonik is a German industrial group specialized in chemicals with offices in over 100 countries around the world.
Headquartered in the Ruhr area, Germany’s largest coal mining corporation,
RAG AG, received the
Excellence in planningIT Award 2011 for
Excellence in Execution. The decisive criteria for the award selection included the speed of project roll out and comprehensive and target-oriented implementation. Another aspect that contributed to the award selection was the manner in which RAG was able to address and overcome project challenges.
Detecon International GmbH, one of the world's leading consulting companies with sound expertise in Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM), received the
Excellence in planningIT Award 2011 for
Partner Excellence. The company demonstrated strong share of mind with alfabet in company vision, and delivered extraordinary results in promoting and realizing joint programs and business transformation initiatives. Detecon positions planningIT as the solution to help customers master the complexity of their IT landscape and align it to meet business goals.
planningIT eXchange 2011 was attended by over 300 IT, Business, and Financial leaders from global organizations. The annual conference addresses major business and IT challenges faced by leading Fortune 500 companies. It brings together decision makers to share best practices and experiences.
For further information:
alfabet AG
Rene Hermes
+49 (0)30-8803 45-510
Rene.Hermes@alfabet.com