Press Release

FLASHMAP SYSTEMS RELEASES TWO IT Roadmaps

New At-A-Glance IT Roadmap Depicts Entirety of IT Environment in a Unique Visual Framework

PLUS: Updated IT Infrastructure Roadmap

Newton, MA - (March 9, 2004) Flashmap Systems(R) announced today the At-A-Glance IT Roadmap, a graphical wall poster that visually depicts the entirety of the IT environment. Global in scale, this poster describes the context for all component models of the IT portfolio and how they inter-relate. It includes the IT Infrastructure, Applications Development, Commercial Off-The-Shelf Applications, and Business Intelligence models.

In today's economy companies are spending more conservatively in all areas, especially in IT. Companies must know what they already have and how it all fits together before they can make intelligent, business-wise decisions regarding where they want to go. The At-A-Glance IT Roadmap helps companies do precisely that, and is the first such product of its kind.

"This is literally the big picture," said Jeff Tash, Flashmap Systems CEO and founder, who developed the roadmap. "It is the difference between looking at a jigsaw puzzle when it is in pieces vs. looking at the puzzle once it's put together. Most IT people are only familiar with their little piece of the puzzle and don't know how they fit into the big picture, or worse yet, what the big picture is even supposed to look like."

The At-A-Glance IT Roadmap focuses on the high-level context for the component models. When it's time to talk about specific products, users can easily transition to one of the more detailed, product-oriented Roadmaps created by Flashmap Systems. They are the Application Development, Business Intelligence, and the newly updated IT Infrastructure Roadmaps which, in aggregate, place more than 10,000 products in context. The At-A-Glance IT Roadmap is the fourth in the series.

A free, interactive version of the entire Roadmap series is available online at www.ITscout.org, which includes vendor detail, direct hyperlinks to both vendor sites and product sites, and provides one-click, context-sensitive access to Google. It also provides a forum for users to evaluate and grade products.

About Flashmap Systems
Flashmap Systems is a pioneer in the field of cost-saving software products and services designed for IT professionals. Its core product, FlashAtlas(R), is an intuitive, visually driven navigation system designed to represent, manage, and communicate an enterprise's technology portfolio. Flashmap's software solutions provide technical, service and business people a common environment in which to work together, enabling senior management and IT to better align strategic plans with actual operations. The company is based in Newton, MA.
 
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