Executives responsible for managing the effectiveness and TCO of their enterprise's IT technology investments need the equivalent of an "atlas" to simplify how they  organize, visualize, and communicate the enterprise's technology portfolio. The 'atlas' will better guide the diverse constituency of people who use, develop, operate, manage, evaluate, or purchase technology offerings.  Flashmap Systems’ tools provide graphical, holistic navigation to information about an enterprise's architectural and standards decisions. 

Unlike more expensive, complex, and much longer-term solutions from suppliers of business process-centric enterprise architecture products, or finance-centric asset management tools, Flashmap offers a quicker, less expensive, lower-risk pragmatic approach to developing and implementing a  technology architecture that can substantially reduce by 10 - 25%, through consolidation and standardization of products and vendors, the costs related to the enterprise's technology portfolio.

Flashmap Systems Products

Leading the market in Technology Portfolio Management

ITatlas™
ITatlas, a technology portfolio manager, enables enterprises to collect and communicate information about their own internal technology assets. Technology assets are distinct from financial assets (i.e., money), people assets (i.e., human resources), and tangible assets (i.e., plant, equipment & property). Technology assets include: hardware, software tools & applications (purchased or developed); 3rd-party services; and technical skills & knowledge.

ITatlas excels at communicating information about IT -- especially architectures, standards, strategies, products, and applications to a broad, diverse, and untrained user community, in short, to anyone who uses IT. This enables companies to establish and enforce internal corporate standards. ITatlas is the only tool that allows IT and Business users to speak the same language and to understand their enterprise architecture from a common perspective. The ITatlas graphical user environment is impressively natural and intuitive, particularly its navigational look‑and‑feel. ITatlas is unsurpassed when it comes to delivering the right information to the right people who use IT products and systems. ITatlas focuses on supporting an organization’s internal enterprise view of IT. ITatlas customers can incorporate their own architecture frameworks within ITatlas as well as use those frameworks and taxonomies developed by Flashmap Systems. If desired, a subset of the ITscout content (see www.itscout.org) can come bundled within the ITatlas tool, providing ITatlas customers with an almost immediate ROI.
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ITguide™
ITguide is a very simple, very inexpensive, ASP-only Technology Portfolio solution that enables architects to create custom-tailored technology architectures by modeling and documenting technology assets (i.e., existing and projected technology investments). ITguide comes bundled with the ITscout ROADMAP graphical models and category trees. Quick, easy and secure access to information about products, vendors and categories is provided via a simple and intuitive web browser-based user interface. ITguide serves as an excellent starter kit for initially establishing and communicating IT standards within a company or group.
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ITroadmaps™
IT Roadmaps provide visual models for organizing, classifying, and categorizing technology assets. The color-coded roadmap graphics help people see how the various IT product categories fit together. The posters also provide extensive product listings. IT Roadmaps focus from an industry-wide perspective.
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ITscout™
ITscout (www.ITscout.org), sponsored by Flashmap Systems, is a free “self-service” research tool that allows people to explore and discover information about products and product categories in the IT industry, specifically on those products and categories depicted on the roadmap posters. If desired, a subset of the ITscout content can come bundled within the ITatlas tool for use by ITatlas customers, providing ITatlas customers with an almost immediate ROI. It should be noted, ITscout is not ITatlas or ITguide. ITscout has different features, functionality and provides an industry-wide perspective.
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Product Comparison

	ITscout	ITguide	FlashAtlas	ITatlas
ASP version
in-house version
individual user profiles
content based on user profile
automated logins
graphical navigation
"You are here" locator
multiple models
bundled FSI models
custom models
custom category definitions
custom content listings
custom fields on detail pages
custom graphics
multiple views
custom legend
filter content by legend
content links
basic search
advanced search
Verity search
bundled reports
custom skins
custom pages
administrative interface
one-click editing capabilities
application event logs
file manager
ability to modify content
multiple types & levels of administration
user groups
custom templates
multiple templates
defined field types
self-serve export/import

 
Flashmap's technology is also available for use in an OEM model by consulting companies and other software vendors. Contact us for more details.