Casewise Earns the Highest Score for its ‘Current Offering’ in Enterprise Architecture Modeling Software

Casewise a leading Enterprise Architecture, Business Process Analysis and IT Governance software company, today announced that it was named a leader and earned the top score for its ‘Current Offering’ in the recently published independent market assessment “The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Architecture Tools, Q2 2007”, Forrester Research, Inc., April 2007.

Casewise was among ten companies that Forrester Research invited to participate in a detailed analysis of the Enterprise Architecture tools marketplace with each company being evaluated on the basis of its current offering. In addition to being ranked as a leader within the overall evaluation, Casewise was identified by Forrester and earned the overall top score for its ‘Current Offering’ – Forrester defines its ‘Current Offering’ for Enterprise Architecture tools as the breadth of the vendor’s product, including areas such as modeling, simulation, analysis, life-cycle management, publishing, templates, and product architecture.

Forrester wrote that Casewise is : “The first vendor to invest heavily in support for industry and process frameworks, EA methodologies, and EA frameworks”. The report goes on to state that “Customers can be assured that Casewise is committed to the models it delivers because it actively contributes to standards bodies and develops and maintains its modeling offering accordingly. For example, Casewise provides solid support for IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), eTOM, and the rarer MRASCo, NETA, and SEI models”.

Ray Pearman, Chief Executive Officer said “We are delighted that Casewise is recognized by Forrester as a a leader in the enterprise architecture modeling market and that we have earned overall top position for our Current Offering. Pearman continues “We believe that Casewise is making an innovative and pioneering contribution in the field of Enterprise Architecture and IT Governance. This is a result of our ground breaking work in pattern recognition that has enabled the discovery, and subsequent unification of thousands of overlaps between ISO Standards, Regulatory Compliances and Best Practice Frameworks. It is this capability that enables our customers to eliminate vast amounts of duplication and significantly reduce the number of regulatory compliance controls they must implement in order to satisfy numerous discrete regimes such as Sarbanes Oxley, MiFiD, Basel II, FDA, HIPPA and so on.

To view the full Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Architecture Tools report please visit www.casewise.com