{"id":767,"date":"2013-05-02T11:53:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T10:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/?p=767"},"modified":"2024-05-08T17:11:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T16:11:49","slug":"abacus-is-1-in-new-enterprise-architecture-tool-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/news\/abacus-is-1-in-new-enterprise-architecture-tool-review\/","title":{"rendered":"ABACUS is #1 in new Enterprise Architecture tool review"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Avolution&#8217;s flagship EA tool, ABACUS\u00ae has received the highest score of 11 Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) tools reviewed by independent business and IT consulting firm, SYRACOM AG.<\/h6>\n<p>Wiesbaden-based SYRACOM conducted the review between January and March 2013 and assessed tools on a wide range of criteria, including: data-interchange capabilities; configurability; methodologies employed; use-ability; and performance.\u00a0 ABACUS was awarded the highest available marks in 16 of the 18 categories.<\/p>\n<p>Intended for enterprises introducing EAM as well as those that are already engaged in EA activities, SYRACOM\u2019s survey aims to provide a knowledge foundation useful to organisations during the tool evaluation phase.<\/p>\n<p>Avolution founder and principal, Dr Tim O\u2019Neill, commented, \u201cABACUS has a great track record in coming out top in EA tool product comparisons and this new independent review has found ABACUS to be the number 1 tool on the market.\u00a0 This result helps to validate the directions and efforts of the whole team at avolution, of which I am very proud.\u00a0 It\u2019s also refreshing for the results of such a survey to be made openly available and without charge, and SYRACOM should be commended for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SYRACOM\u2019s Enterprise Architecture Tool Survey 2013 can be downloaded from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avolutionsoftware.com\/resources\/\">Avolution website<\/a> or from SYRACOM AG (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.syracom.de\/\">http:\/\/www.syracom.de\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avolution&#8217;s flagship EA tool, ABACUS\u00ae has received the highest score of 11 Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) tools reviewed by independent business and IT consulting firm, SYRACOM AG. 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