Information Balance partners with Hartford Consulting Group

HARTFORD, Conn. - Oct. 28, 2015 - PRLog -- Information Balance (IB), a leading provider of Application Portfolio Management software – ib-ARM, and Hartford Consulting Group (HCG), the market leading provider of consulting services for Software AG’s Alfabet IT Portfolio Management software today announced a strategic global partnership to offer their clients a seamless integration of ib-ARM and Alfabet.

The partnership brings together two companies with many years of experience in helping businesses to implement practical and effective IT portfolio management solutions across North America. Under the terms of the agreement IB will develop a seamless interface to Alfabet to automate the initial seeding of the Alfabet repository with as-is application systems portfolio information. HCG will market ib-ARM to existing Alfabet installs to help accelerate roll-out, re-energize stalled implementations and to ultimately improve the quality and accuracy of portfolio data.

The integration of Alfabet and ib-ARM offers clients the optimum balance between top-down and bottom-up portfolio management approaches. Alfabet enables organizations to gain a comprehensive perspective on how IT can support business change by providing insight into all aspects of the IT portfolio: applications, technologies, projects, finances and risk. With ib-ARM the need for manual data collection related to applications is eliminated; the software generates application intelligence from the ultimate system of record: production source code.

Eric Hall, CEO of Hartford Consulting Group comments: “Many enterprises have invested in comprehensive IT portfolio management solutions over the last decade. We have been supporting Alfabet installs for years and have found that the initial seeding of the tool with application systems information is often a very time-consuming and challenging task. The completeness and accuracy of such information is critical to the effectiveness of portfolio planning exercises. With the integration of ib-ARM we believe we can overcome those challenges and help our clients reduce roll-out timeframes and accelerate their return on the Alfabet investment.”

Gabor Szirmak, President of Information Balance comments: “ib-ARM is a well-established application portfolio management and application discovery solution. The synergy between ib-ARM and Alfabet is the natural touch point between bottom-up and top-down insight into the application portfolio. We are very pleased to have formed a partnership with HCG and look forward to offering our clients a truly comprehensive IT portfolio management solution.”