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Main features:

- IT planning and optimization - Build an effective IT portfolio by identifying areas for consolidation and reuse and unlocking operational budgets required to fund innovation.
- Maintaining business efficiency - Execute business transformation that helps eliminate organizational waste, resulting in increased productivity.
- Service architecture management - Construct effective solutions out of enterprise and business elements that may create new or updated elements that can be used in future projects.
- More-effective management of systems of systems - Evaluate architectures across multiple systems, perform capability analysis planning and help maximize funding.
- Enterprise resource planning (ERP) and core systems governance - Attain control of your ERP deployments by standardizing components, data and functions as well as understanding dependencies across the organization.
- Harvest and consolidate information, build reports based on Cognos, and perform analysis to guide successful decisions
- Leverage one multi-user environment with support for all areas of modeling, including business and strategy modeling, component and object modeling, data modeling, and more
- System Architect 11.4 now supports enhanced usability, an improved web platform, PowerPoint interoperability, integrations to Asset Management, and support for DoDAF 2.0"; function tShowHide(id, show) { var s = document.getElementById("desc"); if ((s.innerHTML.length<=212 || show==1) && show!=2) { s.innerHTML = fDesc[id]; if (document.getElementById('m1')) document.getElementById('m1').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('m2')) document.getElementById('m2').style.display='none'; if (document.getElementById('more_txt')) document.getElementById('more_txt').style.display='inline'; } else { s.innerHTML = ''; } }