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1Gain Strategic Insight
2Achieve Functional Agility
3Increase Operational Effectiveness
4Simplify Compliance Reconciliations
5Standardize IT Planning
Enterprise architects struggle to maintain internal catalogs, which are critical for IT planning and business discussions. A comprehensive catalog like Technopedia provides enterprise architects with a technical reference and standards catalog that serves as a common language between IT and the business.
6Stay Informed
7Improve Procurement Systems
IT purchasing systems often rely upon manually entered values for hardware and software purchases, which make reconciliation of data discrepancies prior to deployment a challenge. A comprehensive reference catalog provides well-formatted hardware and software information to populate procurement applications and ensure purchasing and operations are aligned.
8Service Management
IT service management (ITSM) applications rely upon product and market information to make decisions for break/fix and other common ITSM activities. A common language augmented with market information ensures IT managers take ITSM actions based on complete information, including market information such as end-of-life dates and hardware lifecycle information.
9Improve Internal Controls
10Reduce Waste
A common language of IT can prevent wasted time that IT departments previously spent running IT asset management (ITAM) systems to compare products purchased to products installed. It also reduces wasted payments for duplicate software and hardware or soon-to-expire versions.