- Avolution
Infobox Company
name = Avolution Pty Ltd.
type = Private
foundation = 2001
location =Sydney Australia
key_people = Dr. Tim O'Neill, Founder
Dr. Mark Denford, Founder
Prof. John Leaney, Founder
industry = Enterprise and Solution Architecture and Modelling, Business Process Modelling and Analysis
products = ABACUS
divisions = AMER, EMEA and APAC
homepage = [http://www.avolution.com.au www.avolution.com.au]Avolution is a global provider of
Enterprise Architecture ,Enterprise Modeling andProcess Modeling software with offices based inSydney -Australia ,Oxford -UK and theWashington Metropolitan Area -USA . Avolution was spun-out from theUniversity of Technology, Sydney in 2001 and the name 'avolution' is an abbreviation of the term "Architecture-based Evolution".Products
ABACUS
ABACUS is a software package that can create multiple solution alternatives ("architectures") and then run various simulations or calculations against each alternative for metrics such as Cost, Agility, Performance (utilising a
Discrete event simulation ) and Reliability (using theMonte Carlo method ). In so doing it can recommend the optimal path for investment, with predictive and quantitative certainty.ABACUS is deployed across different market sectors in over 25 countries worldwide. The current release of ABACUS is version 3.0 [cite web | url = http://www.avolution.com.au/releases/0712_ABACUS_3.0.html | title = ABACUS 3.0 | publisher = Avolution | accessdate = 2007-02-12] . The name ABACUS stands for the "Architecture-Based Analysis of Complex Systems" [cite conference | coauthors = Nord, R; Bass, L; Clements, P; Northrop, L; Tomayko, J | title = The ABACUS Architectural Approach to Computer-Based Systems and Enterprise Evolution | booktitle = Proceedings of the First Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Workshop | date = September 2005 | publisher = Carnegie Mellon University | pages = 7 | url = http://www.sei.cmu.edu/pub/documents/05.reports/pdf/05tn037.pdf | accessdate = 2007-02-12 ]
See also
Enterprise Architecture Enterprise Modeling Process Modeling Service-Oriented Architecture Project Portfolio Management External links
Corporate website: [http://www.avolution.com.au/ www.avolution.com.au]
YouTube channel: [http://www.youtube.com/avolution www.youtube.com/avolution]
* [http://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/Excerpt/0,7211,42505,00.html Forrester: Avolution Uses New Simulation To Choose Scenario-Based EA Evolutions by Henry Peyret, May 30th, 2007]
* [http://www.capgemini.com/ctoblog/2006/08/is_business_architecture_neces.php CapGemini CTO blog: Is Business Architecture necessary for SOA? August 7th, 2006]
* [http://www.opengroup.org/togaf/cert/showcase/participants/avolution/index.html The Open Group]
* [https://www.aogea.org/partners/ViewPartner?id=1 The Association of Open Group Enterprise Architects]
Discrete Event Simulation [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_event_simulation]
Monte Carlo Simulation [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_carlo_simulation]References
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