Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Leading Financial Services Firm, ANZ, Deploys Troux To Support Growth Initiatives

Leading Financial Services Firm, ANZ, Deploys Troux To Support Growth Initiatives

Strategic IT Planning Software Delivers Better Alignment, Cost Savings and Agility

Austin, Texas (PRWEB) November 30, 2010

Troux Technologies™, Inc., the leader in Strategic IT Planning and Enterprise Architecture software, today announced that ANZ, a leading financial services provider with operations in 32 countries, has implemented the Troux Transformation Platform™ and related business applications across its strategic IT planning activities. Specifically, ANZ, is using Troux to manage the company’s distributed portfolio of application assets to enable better alignment between technology architecture and business architecture and drive global transformation initiatives.

“At ANZ we have increasingly found that applying a Strategic IT Planning discipline to be a critical component of our growth plan. As we continue to build our business in new geographies and offer new products and services to our customers, it is vitally important to achieve stronger synergy between our technology and business strategies. Troux is helping us to manage our technology investments to better support our growth strategy and deliver maximum business value,” said Cameron Bedford, Head of Architecture, ANZ.

“Operating a financial services company across 32 different countries presents many unique business and IT challenges and opportunities. Similar to our other customers, Troux is helping ANZ gain invaluable insight into the strategic performance of technology investments, and drive results-driven transformations throughout the company,” said David Hood, chief executive of Troux.

About ANZ
ANZ was founded over 170 years ago and is committed to building lasting partnerships with customers, shareholders and communities. ANZ operates in 32 countries including Australia, New Zealand, throughout Asia and the Pacific, and also in the Middle East, Europe and America. ANZ provides a range of banking and financial products and services to more than 5.7 million retail customers and employs over 39,000 people worldwide.

About Troux
“Transformation at the speed of business” is what Troux is all about. To keep pace in globally connected markets, where shocks and innovations happen at an unprecedented rate, business and IT must radically update their antiquated approaches to planning and executing transformations. A global leader in Strategic IT Planning and Enterprise Architecture software, Troux guides customers to success with a unique combination of software, know-how, community and partners.
Troux customers benefit with improved business and IT agility, and with immediate cost savings through a simplified IT environment, all enabled by bridging the deadly information gap between business planning and IT planning. Just ask these Troux customers and partners: Accenture, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Barclays Bank, Beiersdorf, Cisco, the US Department of Labor, Fiducia, the US Department of Health and Human Services, GMAC, Merck, Raytheon, Vattenfall and Vodafone.

Note: Troux and Troux Transformation Platform are trademarks of Troux Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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