Troux provides a comprehensive set of products to build and manage a platform for enterprise architecture, business alignment and strategic planning initiatives. This platform features:

• Information aggregation and data-quality management across federated enterprise data sources
• Model-driven management of enterprise metadata
• Collaborative information modeling environment
• Visual modeling of as-is and to-be environments for business process analysis and scenario decision-making
• Role-specific reporting, analytics, workflow and compliance controls to present accurate and relevant information where and when needed

Troux provides a comprehensive set of products to build and manage a platform for enterprise architecture, business alignment and strategic planning initiatives. This platform features:

• Information aggregation and data-quality management across federated enterprise data sources
• Model-driven management of enterprise metadata
• Collaborative information modeling environment
• Visual modeling of as-is and to-be environments for business process analysis and scenario decision-making
• Role-specific reporting, analytics, workflow and compliance controls to present accurate and relevant information where and when needed

Metis Architect

Is a visual modeling client tool that offers EA professionals a range of modeling options, from providing business owners with read-only visual models to support decision-making, through advanced designers and developers who want to create, adapt or extend objects, relationships and search criteria within a metamodel template.

Visibility and Flexibility to Accommodate Change

• Visual, graphical and relational model views display change impact across all organizational functions
• Graphical model views of complex infrastructures enables a deeper understanding of business strategy, business processes and IT operations, and their relationships
• Decision-makers see entire enterprise, including business strategies and operations aligned with IT functions and infrastructure
• Broader understanding of relationships - and risks - in and between business and IT enables rapid change impact assessment avoiding costly mistakes
• 'What if' analysis of proposed decisions from enterprise view to project level enables organizations to adapt to continuous change
• Integrates with legacy applications

Visual Modeling for all Architecture Domains

Whether you're an Enterprise Architect or a focused on architecture development and management within a domain, Metis Architect provides a powerful and flexible set of features to accomplish your objectives.

Support for Architecture Roles and Challenges:

• Domain Architects
  Data, Application, Infrastructure, Business Process
• Solution Architect
  Business Transformation
• Enterprise Architect
  Strategic Alignment and Strategic Planning

Key functionality of Metis Architect:

• Inventory Management
• Data Analysis
• Data Management
• Gap Analysis
• Data Quality
• Impact Analysis
• Relationship Management
• Documentation
• Lifecycling
• Visualization
• Future-state Development
• Decision Support
• Scoring

Metis Server

Metis Server, an XML-based repository system, enables enterprise information management and interactive delivery through the combination of sophisticated information collection and storage technology. Metis Server's abstract entity-relation model automatically collects, classifies and creates visualizations of an array of Enterprise Architecture elements, including technologies, processes and people, eliminating information silos across organizations.

Unified View from a Multitude of Sources

• Enables workgroup collaboration, version control and model security to store completed models or shared models that require updating
• Supports rigorous security requirements of corporate and government IT organizations with powerful control features
• Offers access, model versioning, and develop-review-publish cycles
• Seamlessly integrates with Metis Architect

Metis Server's primary capabilities consist of the Metis Enterprise Repository, Metis Enterprise Architecture Foundation and one Metis Architecture seat.

Unparalleled Information Management and Delivery with Metis Enterprise Repository

Core Functionality for Enterprise Information Management and Delivery

• Aggregates all three dimensions of Enterprise Architecture into a single source: breadth of objects; depth of attributes and relationships; purpose of supporting strategic alignment and planning
• Hosts type definitions storing millions of instances and maintains change log
• Manages information through object-based architecture that file-based storage systems were not designed to handle
• Seamlessly integrates full suite of ETL without source modifications or agents

Metis Enterprise Architecture Foundation

• Troux's metamodel serves as information foundation to provide integrated view of 21 knowledge domains, 200 object types and more than 1,000 unique relationships out of the box
• Complements industry frameworks including TOGAF, FEAF, Zachman and others

Additional Capabilities

• Metis Information Portal
  Manages portal-based user access via pre-configured roles determined by domain and preference extending value of information beyond EAs to all stakeholders for planning and process development
• Metis Reporting
  Complete reporting from Enterprise Architecture platform through integration with Cognos ReportNet™
• Metis Policy Manager
  Facilitates capture, creation and management of policies covering entire policy lifecycle
• Metis Workflow Engine
  Enables definition, implementation and process improvements within the Repository

Metis Collection

Automatically collects, classifies and aggregates information across a wide array of Enterprise Architecture elements, including technologies, processes and people from existing sources. Metis Collection generates an enterprise information baseline which populates the Metis Enterprise Repository. The technology is source agnostic, working within any existing environment.

Metis Collection solves the long-standing problem of aggregating data from fragmented and federated sources across an organization which are often inaccurate, outdated and rarely verified by any subject-matter expert.

Collection Targeted to Solve Business Problems

By focusing Enterprise Architecture initiatives on specific business problems, Metis Collection can be purposed to identify, connect to and capture the specific data elements necessary to solve the questions at hand. Metis Collection leverages those data sources with:

• Automated and agentless ETL (Extract Transform Load) operations in IT information silos, providing security, auditing, notifications and job management
• Established business rules for handling ETL processes
• Automated collection from multiple data sources leveraging industry standard protocols and technologies without invasive agents
• Rules-based data validation, precedence enforcement, and standard and custom data transformations
• Custom business-logic plug-ins for filtering, data integrity checks, reporting/notifications from ETL processing
• Collection scheduled for optimal collection times
• Monitored collection to ensure data accuracy and successful imports
• A rich set of services facilitating end-to-end data collection
• A web-based portal to manage execution of collectors