alfabet is pleased to announce Release 7.1 of planningIT for Business IT Management. This new release demonstrates alfabet's commitment to ensuring IT powers business success by introducing significant new functionalities that reflect the maturation of the EA discipline to one concerned with enterprise planning, including concepts and activities traditionally considered business functions. These include features supporting collaborative business planning, better identification of business hot spots to improve IT support, and state-of-the-art analytics of enterprise planning information.