In our vision the all-encompassing IB-ARM portal becomes an indispensable tool in every IT professional's day-to-day life from the CIO through the application developer, the business analyst, to the computer operator on the data center floor.

IB-ARM is an omnipresent source of intelligence about everything that's IT; in the same way as the running stock ticker is for the securities trader, the periodically changing collection of weather satellite images is for the meteorologist, or the dashboard of instrumentation of a 747 is for its crew. Up-to-the-minute information about every thing that I need to know - to create a plan or a report, bring about a decision, or simply, accomplish a task. Presented as a living, breathing blueprint of the organization's technology investment, made visible to all.

IB-ARM is on top of the desktop of every IT professional. It changes the way people do business, just like Outlook changed the way we communicate, organize and schedule.

• How many applications do I have, on this platform? CLICK, CLICK, CLICK...aha!
• How many lines of code do I have in total? CLICK, CLICK, CLICK.... alright! Oh, how much of this is unused? CLICK, CLICK, CLICK...ok!
• I want to decommission Application X; I know it does some interest rate calculations and the results are used widely by other applications, but it's written in Clipper and we can't get anyone to maintain it anymore. What happens if we pull it? CLICK, CLICK, CLICK...interesting!
• It is 3:00am and the script has crashed with error 3425. Where does this error originate? CLICK, CLICK, CLICK...ok! How do I fix it? CLICK, CLICK, CLICK... oh, I see!
• Postal codes are expanding from six characters to ten characters. How big is this effort - two weeks, two months or two years? What programs, databases and screen objects are affected? CLICK, CLICK, CLICK... ok!
• As a new team member on the application team, I need to revise the pricing models. What documentation exists? CLICK, CLICK, CLICK...great! Now I understand how it is implemented today!
• The disaster recovery plan for the network is out of date. What servers and network devices do I have? CLICK, CLICK, CLICK...here we go! Here is the current set up and there is a lot more than we thought!
• And so on and on and on...