Supporting Organization Agility through Strategic Capability Planning, Application Rationalization and IT / Business Integration

05 - 06 April, 2022 | Free PEX Network Online Event

Ali Rizvi

Head of Product Management Software AG

Ali Rizvi is Head of Product Management for Alfabet FastLane – Software AG’s SaaS solution in the Alfabet product line. As such, Ali is responsible for product strategy, the product roadmap and execution on development of the product. Before joining Software AG, Ali was IT Project and Application Support Manager at Almarai, the largest vertically integrated dairy company in the world. Here, Ali was responsible for process alignment across business departments and production system integration as well as the introduction of new production planning and monitoring tools. He also worked on Sales and Financial management solutions at in Almarai. Prior to Almarai, Ali was software engineer in the BPM domain focusing on developing BPM engines and modeling UIs.

Day One

10:00 AM Use EA to Focus IT Investment on Business Innovation

Sustainable business innovation requires a constant flow of funding for IT investment. This means aligning with business on spending priorities to ensure only those projects are funded that support the business strategy and are feasible. EA helps optimize and focus capital expenditures (CapEx) by exposing redundancy in projects, flawed solution design, and where strong IT is needed to support business capabilities critical to market success. In providing the means to assess the project portfolio from different perspectives such as business value, architectural impact and risk, EA eliminates CapEx waste and ensures maximal return on IT investment.

Learn how to:

  • Enable fast and high-quality decisions on changes to the IT portfolio that support business initiatives
  • Plan and manage IT investment that supports current and future business strategy
  • Ensure available funding for business innovation through good investment portfolio management
  • Make better and more long-term use of financial resources
  • Measure the value contribution of individual investment decisions