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Flashmap Systems®, Inc. is an information technology company. The founders of Flashmap Systems have played a key role over the past two decades in developing and disseminating intuitive, visual, and taxonomic frameworks for modeling enterprise architectures. These enable IT organizations to define, describe, manage, share and enforce their enterprise architecture decision-making and standardization efforts.
The founders of Flashmap Systems developed the first “Client/Server
Middleware Road Map™” and “Client/Server Aboveware Road
Map™” in the mid 1990’s. These appeared as inserts multiple
times in Computerworld and took the industry by storm. To date more
than a million Roadmap copies have been distributed worldwide. Having
now been updated (see www.ITscout.org),
these highly graphical images depict a well-regarded and accepted
taxonomy of IT product categories.
The IT Roadmap Series™ visually depict the overwhelming complexity associated with enterprise computing providing an easily understandable, holistic, visual representation of the IT landscape. Noting the wide acceptance and usefulness of these graphical and taxonomic maps, Flashmap Systems has developed two online, Web-based products called ITguide™ and ITatlas™. Both ITguide (link to ITguide product information) and ITatlas (link to ITatlas product information) are highly visual, interactive, easily navigable web-based environments that allow people to navigate and drill down into their own IT architecture framework. These products were designed to assist companies in cataloging their own IT assets, documenting IT asset life cycle status, and other detailed information, and communicating this information across an entire organization through all levels of management, businesses and technical groups with no training required for the end-user. Having the ability to easily document and share information regarding your technology portfolio and architecture framework is especially critical when trying to get agreement, understanding and compliance with regards to an organization's IT strategy. With mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations and restructurings that happen on a regular basis in organizations today, communication is even more important for a company's short and long term IT success. . |
