Australian National University ANU Implements alfabet’s planningIT

July 26, 2010

The Australian National University (ANU) has implemented its planningIT solution in order to assist with improvements in Business and IT processes.

ANU was established to advance the areas of learning and research in Australia. Since it’s founding in 1946, the University has built a reputation that ranks it as one of the world’s leading universities, with a vision to advance intellectual and creative capacity through broad-based research and research-led education. The Information Services (IS) organization is responsible for managing a demand portfolio supporting University strategic plans and delivering project implementation across the Colleges and Service Divisions.

To reach the long-term strategic goals of achieving a rationalized Information Service landscape and master level data management, the University has identified coordinated planning; a greater strategic alliance between the IS function and the overall goals of the University; and transparency across the IS landscape, as major areas of focus.

The University is working towards improving the IS alignment with the University’s overarching strategic intent. The ability to manage demand within the IS organization is a key element in the achievement of the objectives.

The University has in many instances identified business initiatives that require input from the IS organization, but sometimes noted that the information needed and its relationship to business strategies and processes was fragmented. This made it difficult for staff responsible for preparing business initiatives to obtain a complete picture of the impacts and associated risks.

As a result, staff was often faced with the challenge of determining the scale of proposed initiatives and establishing complete cost estimates. In other instances, decision makers were faced with making decisions on an incomplete picture of costs, benefits and impacts.

After a thorough evaluation, the ANU selected alfabet’s planningIT to help achieve its goals. planningIT is being deployed to establish an end-to-end process to enable transparent and systematic collaboration across the University. The University expects to be able to more clearly:

“We are pleased that ANU has chosen planningIT, said Erik Masing,” CEO and founder of alfabet. “We are confident that through the use of planningIT, ANU can achieve significant cost savings, streamline its application landscape and improve overall IT efficiency.”