Every day, Troux customers are using our business suite of applications and platform to deliver bottom line results.

• 600 redundant applications eliminated, resulting in an estimated cost savings of $50 million at a global aerospace manufacturer.
• 17 acquisitions and divestitures completed by a leading regional bank.
• Planning cycles slashed from 16 weeks to 5 days at a major European bank.
• Twice as many opportunities to remove legacy applications identified by a high-tech manufacturer resulting in an immediate $10 million savings.

By locating where IT spending and programs are redundant or out-of-step with business strategy, Troux customers are experiencing immediate cost savings as well as step changes to ongoing IT efficiency, business response, and risk reduction. 

How Kaiser Permanente Drives Quick Value From Standards

Sandra McCoy and her EA team at Kaiser Permanente have used Troux to create standards to guide, rather than force, business users to abandon overlapping, wasteful or non-supported applications. The effort is leading business managers to question technology assumptions and even ask for standards in areas such as lab and radiology systems. All this helps the sprawling insurer and health care provider drive down costs while increasing the effectiveness of health care, she recently told attendees at x’s Worldwide Conference.

Driving Business Value from EA: Lessons From the Front Lines at Merck

Speaking at the EA & CIOs: State of Union Webinar, Frank Malta, Chief Architect and Executive Director of Enterprise Architecture at pharmaceutical giant Merck described how he has used Troux to help Merck reduce costs and improve agility as it copes with increasing cost pressures, expensive and inflexible legacy systems, and its November 2009 merger with Schering-Plough.

Speeding the Governance Toll Road at USCIS

Modern organizations are complex, and that can make IT governance complicated as well. At the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), decisions such as which applications to decommission used to be hobbled by conflicting requirements, unclear lines of authority, conflicting timelines, and even a lack of common terminology and knowledge of enterprise architecture among decision makers.

Alstom Takes Fast Track to Application Portfolio Optimization

 Xavier Ruvilly, Enterprise Architect at Alstom Power had no doubt what his CEO expected of him when the company launched its Decommissioning Task Force in early 2010: shave 20 percent a year from the IT budget at the global giant in power generation. With a “spaghetti-like mess” of more than 3,000 applications serving upwards of 70,000 users, deciding and efficiently determining which can safely be removed required a no-nonsense approach. A disciplined strategy, and the use of Troux’s Application Portfolio Management (APM) program, has Alstom on track to save €4 million in the first year of the project.

Discover Financial Services Wins Coveted 2010 Enterprise Architecture Award

Discover Financial Services was selected to receive the award for its Enterprise Architecture Repository project, built with the Troux Transformation Platform™ and companion application Troux Standards™. As a result of the project, and related improvements, Discover Financial realized $4.4 million in IT savings and/or cost avoidance in 2009; in the first quarter of 2010 it documented $390,000 worth of savings

Beiersdorf Selects Troux for Business Visibility into IT

Beiersdorf has selected the Troux Transformation Platform and enlisted its Enterprise Architecture Management expertise to help drive a major strategic planning effort across the organization. The purpose of the Troux-related projects is for Beiersdorf to better understand and manage the usage of IT applications worldwide and improve IT alignment with business models and processes.

Vattenfall Enables Global IT Efficiency Drive with Troux

Vattenfall, one of the world’s largest energy companies, with operations stretching across Europe, has selected Troux software to simplify and bring transparency to the management of IT resources across the organization.

AMD Turns to Troux for IT Insight and Control

AMD, a leading global technology company, has been a Troux customer for several years. AMD initially used Troux to establish an Enterprise Architecture Repository and a standards management program. Recently, and as part of a larger strategic initiative, AMD turned to Troux 8 and Troux Alignment to provide transparency and improve communication with the business by linking the repository data to business processes.

Swedbank chose Troux: Ease-of-Configuration, Ability to Scale

• Demonstrated ability to customize applications through flexible modeling and highly configurable user-interfaces.
• Ability to collect large quantities of information and scale to handle large (multi-million) quantities of objects in the data repository.
• Ability to handle tactical data warehouse applications and extend to support strategic IT planning initiatives.

Troux software will be used for several IT management applications, including building a Business Glossary, data-change impact analysis and creating visibility into data lineage.

CPS Energy Turns to Troux for Company’s Transformation Strategy

CPS Energy selected Troux's Strategic IT Planning solutions to provide the enterprise-wide visibility and framework for automating CPS Energy’s corporate-wide IT information aggregation, as well as providing the foundation for investment planning, and technology risk analysis. Troux will serve as the basis to drive greater business efficiencies and bring new capabilities to market while maintaining low costs to CPS Energy's customers.

Seco Tools Selects Troux to Transform Business Processes

Following an extensive evaluation of Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Modeling software solutions, Troux was selected by Seco Tools, based on its sole ability to enable and support a number of transformations planned by Seco Tools, part of the world's largest tools manufacturing group.

Fiducia Selects Troux for Strategic IT Planning

Fiducia, the leading German IT services company for the financial services industry, manages the IT infrastructures of more than 800 branches. The company had a number of functional planning tools for its complex and dynamic IT infrastructure, but these worked in isolation and did not provide the instant intelligence needed to manage the interdependencies between processes, services, applications, projects, assets and employees. To improve strategic IT planning, Fiducia selected Troux to manage change, report on IT resources more effectively and optimize the overall IT landscape.

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