Exigen VOA, the first application lifecycle management software built on semantic technologies

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May 7, 2013

Application lifecycle management software that links everything you do to ROI.

Built on semantic technologies for software vendors and enterprises.

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Enterprise software builders struggle with complexity. An unmanageable number of activities, artifacts. And globally distributed development teams with different approaches challenge coordination. Enterprise Agile is hard.

VOA tames complexity by putting life back into application lifecycle management. We apply semantic technologies to link every activity, artifact, and resource together.

With VOA you should expect to accelerate time-to-revenue or benefit by 20%.

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What’s the ROI? Answer this question at every stage of the application lifecycle with VOA. It offers software vendors and

enterprises these benefits.


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Business needs and requirements are unavoidably volatile. And costs escalate the later in the lifecycle you change or fix something.

With VOA, you recombine rather than recreate work. It retains and evolves product and project knowledge. This means you maximize the reuse of requirements, models, tests, code, and implementation lessons.

Using VOA you should expect to reduce your change management cost by 30% and lower both product development and operating expenses.

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Application lifecycle management should maximize the value of a product or a project. Failure means not achieving the forecast ROI for your product, project, or release. Success is unlikely without the right information about benefits, costs, risks, and alternatives.

VOA injects value across the lifecycle and shows the financial implications of each artifact, activity, and decision.

Turn your product or project ROI into reality with VOA.

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Reusable requirementsChange and reuse artifacts

Active ALMLink your lifecycle automatically

Value trackingTurn ROI into reality

Link your application lifecycle automatically

Application lifecycle management systems are lifeless. Artifacts aren’t in one place and joining them up takes manual labor. Knowledge is scattered across point products. Information falls through the cracks between systems and you lose work that has cost a lot to create. Inflexible technical designs make change hard.

VOA brings application lifecycle management back to life. Artifacts link across every lifecycle stage including idea, design, development, operation, and retirement. Changes synchronize and trace to each other automatically. And because VOA is built on semantic technologies, it’s ready to evolve without big redesigns. The more you use VOA, the more value you get from its evolving knowledge base.

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Turn ROI into reality

Business cases are often just used to justify products or projects, then, forgotten. Implementation happens ungoverned by the business case. Critical decisions, especially, around scope change are made unguided by ROI information. ROI-free decisions means disappointing projects and underperforming products.

VOA injects and tracks ROI into every stage of application lifecycle management. Early in the lifecycle, you can build your business case, set value targets, and forecast ROI down to the individual artifact or activity. As implementation progresses, VOA continuously refines and reforecasts benefit, cost, and time estimates based on actual performance.








Change and reuse artifacts

Requirements management isn’t agile. Writing a clear user story won’t help much if it’s left in traditional dead-document format. They’re hard to find, inflexible, and discourage reuse. Inevitably, business conditions and user needs change, then, your requirement is out-of-date.

VOA creates requirements ready for both change and reuse. Requirements are built around elements, so, when change happens only the element needs adjustment. Changes synchronize automatically across related requirements.

VOA encourages reuse by structuring knowledge into easy-to-share levels including industry, customer, and specific implementation.








Slice software for value

Release management is about maximizing the business value of your release or deployment. With Agile, the product backlog prioritizes on customer value. But this is a single, static and subjective measure. You don’t have the information to decide on value.

VOA changes how you plan new releases or deployment. Whether you are an agile product manager or an enterprise deployment manager, VOA lets you slice software into the unit of analysis you want. Choose to slice software into a full release, a subset of features, or your single most valuable feature. You can plan and iterate your slice of software for maximum value.








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For enterprises

Enterprises use VOA to address these challenges:• Enable a software-driven business transformation.• Overhaul a core legacy system.

For software vendors

Software vendors use VOA to address these challenges:• Accelerate application development.• Transform your application from on-premise to the Cloud and SaaS.• Speed deployment of your software across multiple geographies.

VOA was invented to help a leading provider of enterprise insurance software, EIS, a related company, deploy software more efficiently across multiple geographies.

New use cases

We are always interested in new ways to apply VOA and its underlying semantic technologies. Please contact us to discuss.

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Diagrams to simplify and insert into appropriate sections

Manage Change • Change Requests• Impact analysis - cost, duration, benefit• Upgrade tractability and cost

Operate • Operation statistics compared to

target improvements• Benefits measurement• Contextual resource management• Evolving knowledge base of

functionality, technical artifacts

Analyze• Business case defining sources of value• Monetized efficiency and effectiveness

targets

Plan• Risk-adjusted options• Business case metrics linked to

requirements and change tracking model for continuous re-evaluation

Govern to Value

• Performance management against business case

• Scope control against baseline• Re-use of knowledge

Implement • Template-based, semantic knowledge

management• End-to-end traceability• Minimized customization through re-

use, automation, workflow• Delta analysis


Scope managementValue prioritized changes

Testing metrics

Benefit realization against plan

Additive knowledge to organization

Key metric targets for project governance

Cost estimatesReturn model

Business Case Development

Planning and Execution Operation

No/Go decision onlyJustification bias

Stand alone business case

RequirementsSpecification

Design

No method to derive benefit against plan

Business Case Development

Planning and Execution

Operation


Customers SDLCVOA PM

Requirements Backlog

User Story Backlog

Requirements Management

Product Improvement Input

Support Management

Customer Deployment Customer issue management

Customer change request management

Release Management

Release Planning

Sprint Planning

Sprint Delivery

Release Delivery

Pro

ject M

anagem

ent

Agile Delivery

GovernanceDashboard and Reporting


Semantic overlayEnd database and document dependence

Issue Repository

Directories & Configuration

Databases &Metadata

Portals

RequirementsSpecifications

Design Specifications

IT Project Assets

Legacy & external sources

VOA artifacts/knowledge model

Correlate

Business Requirements

ArchitectureDesign

Iterate

VOA Process &

methodology

Source Code Repository

IT Project Assets:Analyze, Manage,Reuse, Migrate,

Valuate

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