Platform Vision helps you get the best the results from your technology decisions by avoiding unforeseen consequences. This enterprise architecture model and content destination bridges the concerns of business and IT and help them align technology decisions with business needs: Platform Vision gives IT and business decision-makers a common frame of reference that exposes dependencies and relationships among technologies. This approach can help maximize technology spending.
The Platform Vision architecture model—which is completely vendor-neutral and unbiased—is at the heart of this common frame of reference. By representing business technology as a stack of interdependent layers, this model shows how any decision will affect existing and future technology.
Each layer of the model encompasses all the capabilities necessary at that layer. For example, the Infrastructure Layer includes hardware, networking components, operating systems, foundational security and management, etc. Each layer depends on the layers below it and enables the layers above it.
The Platform Vision web site hosts content based on the architecture model to aid in decision-making. Blogs, articles that describe the model and its components, product reviews, “Gap Map” buyers guides, and competitive product Faceoffs are among the useful content on www.platformvision.com. Platform Vision also conducts and publishes original research on IT and technology.
The Platform Vision web site is home to a unique and growing community that provides input into the architecture model itself. Individuals who contribute to the definition and evolution of the Platform Vision model receive community recognition and rewards. The Platform Vision Advisory panel gathers technology leaders, IT decision-makers, and CIO/CTOs from large and small companies. This panel helps keep the model and content grounded in reality and ensures that the issues of the day are covered.