Informing managers with a clear picture of complex software

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Software is business

A digital nervous system sits at the heart of every business and is critical to every function. The ability to comprehend this nervous system is a key part of technology and business decision making.

Software mapping brings thousands of years of geographic mapping knowledge to the understanding of software. Shine a light on your digital nervous system to improve decision making and reduce risk.

REA Group

The Challenge

REA Group was one of the earliest adopters of agile methodology and microservices architecture. Over the past decade this has lead to a highly complex architecture, managed by a highly distributed and autonomous workforce, a compounding challenge that makes delivery of end-to-end solutions difficult.

The Result

Introduced in 2018, Aplas is the central repository for software asset metadata within REA Group - across all Australian and Asian businesses. It is used as a key productivity tool to inform the executive and developers alike. It has allowed REA Group to stay agile while continuing to scale.

"Aplas is REA's key product to make sense of our microservices web. As the number of systems, integrations, teams and products increased our ability to understand our ecosystem decreased.
With Aplas we now can visualize our digital ecosystem allowing us to make better decisions and effectively manage technology evolution.
Aplas has a flexibility that perfectly accommodates our metadata, allowing systems plotted on the map to carry valuable information. This information is used by delivery, business and product people alike."

Dan Aragio
Head of Architecture

Software literacy

Software literacy is extremely poor in today's business. While a few software architects do understand the nervous system of business, everyone else is left in the dark.

Aplas is designed to radically broaden the understanding of complex systems of software, increasing both the software literacy of your employees and your businesses ability to compete in a digital world.

Aplas lives at the intersection of people and software - it is the foundation for making better decisions with software, empowering your business to thrive in a digital world

Software stories

Software architecture cuts into many other concerns. For example risk, cost, lifecycle and program.

Aplas provides powerful data-driven styling to present anything on your organizations software map. The possibilities are endless, with each style supporting your ability to tell a compelling story.

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Style Project

Don't let cross project impacts cause cost and schedule blowouts. Ensure all stakeholders are on the same page through project views.
Demonstrate project plans and phases
Show how projects will impact different systems, user groups and integrations across multiple phases.
Ensure visibility of cross-system impacts
Highlight and track system impacts as they occur, visually using the same project plan.
Just a template
Our style designer allows you to visualize any data in any way. This is just an example of what is possible.
Always up-to-date
Styles are always in sync with your underlying data and map,, never update a diagram again.
Live Preview
Just a template
Our style designer allows you to visualize any data in any way. This is just an example of what is possible.

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Style App Cost

Breakdown the cost of your entire software landscape
Mouse breakdown
Zoom-out to view total costs across your landscape, zoom-in to breakdown costs across people, software and infrastructure.
Breakthrough comms
Leverage the tangabile nature of a software map to help ground costs discussions.
Just a template
Our style designer allows you to visualize any data in any way. This is just an example of what is possible.
Always up-to-date
Styles are always in sync with your underlying data and map,, never update a diagram again.
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Aplas for all

Many exisiting software asset repositories are so specialized to one particular audience that they become useless for everyone else. All the effort taken to populate their complex data models end up being their death nail. They just don't have enough users to sustain the investment in keeping them up-to-date.

Aplas is a simple, workflow-agnostic, outward facing platform that gives everyone a place to learn about software. Click to see how Aplas facilitates use-cases across your organization.

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