MEGA Releases System Blueprint

According to this latest post on GCN, Mega is introducing MEGA System Blueprint, which is a software tool that links application design with business requirements for modern IT systems.

With this software tool users can define any specification, ranging from requirements analysis, system design, and SOA projects. The tool will allow application design metadata to be stored close to information on IT architecture and business processes. MEGA System Blueprint is priced at $4,000. It will be interesting to see if we will see huge improvements in EA with the release of this application in the enterprise.

MEGA Expands

As this article reports, MEGA Systems is entering into a new market space: Eastern Europe and Russia. They are being helped along with this venture by BPM International, a company that has headquarters in Budapest, Hungary. This announcement comes on the heals of a previous announcement by MEGA, where they introduced new partners in both the Middle East and Southeast Asia. As ArpAid Solti, a managing director for BPM International, stated:

"With economic development running at a fast pace in Eastern Europe in recent years, enterprises here have been seeking proven solutions and expert advice to help them quickly improve performance and optimize resources. MEGA offers unique and significant high-value process and risk management solutions that help companies take full advantage of business growth"

It has been interesting to note the worldwide expansion of Enterprise Architecture solutions and how quickly it has gone from being simply a buzzword. to commonplace and very necessary.

Appian and Mega Partner to Bring Together BPM Tools and Enterprise Architecture Software

eBizQ reports today that Appian, a provider of BPM techonology, and Mega, a provider of EA technology, have entered in agreement to join the BPA and EA capabilities of the MEGA Modeling Suite with the Appian Enterprise BPM Suite and the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-delivered Appian Anywhere platforms.

This new partnership is aimed to improving enterprise success in process innovation and building on existing deployments of software with joint customers such as Enterprise Rent-A-Car, AXA Investment Managers, General Dynamics, and the Department of Homeland Security. Users will be able to perform archectiture and process design on the Mega Suite and then export processes directly to the Appian BPM platform to map out direct management of operations.

Lucio de Risi, president and CEO of MEGA mentions:

"The combination of MEGA's powerful BPA, simulation, and optimization functionality with Appian's robust and scalable BPM platform will unite business users and analysts with enterprise, technical, and information architects in the common goal of creating adaptive, process-driven organizations."