Troux: The answer to the new budget reality

I had the very good fortune to be invited to take part in a happy hour with great food and good drinks with Troux after the Enterprise Architecture (EA) conference I attended yesterday. Throughout the last few years where it seems as if every quarter has been their biggest quarter, they’ve also managed to consistently be rated amongst the leaders in EA in periodicals and places such as Gartner. I really believe that this is going to be their year in the Federal space and that everything will start to click for many reasons.

The first reason is the idea of Troux On-Demand. Some things that every customer is faced with when acquiring these types of decisions support tools is the big capital investment needed upfront, the resources required to get things going, and the sense that it’s going to take a long while to get to value. These can all be seen as strong deterrents. What has changed this perception in the Federal space is this idea of Troux On-Demand, a cloud service within the Amazon Gov cloud that can essentially be turned on and combined with the accelerator programs that Troux has developed to allow organizations to get to value quickly, in 90 days, 120 days etc.

The combination of those things is going to create this really unique package for Federal that allows organizations to come in, identify areas where they can save money, root out redundancy, and all the other things that organizations are going to have to do to meet budget requirements. The budget climate has gotten to where there is simply no way to continue on doing things the way they have always been done. A lot of organizations that we’re talking to are just looking at what they’ve got for funding and trying to figure out how they are going to continue to deliver on the mission.

At last night’s event there was this real sense that the combination of need and the evolution of the technology was going to create this incredible opportunity in the federal space for folks that have cracked the nut on how to deliver answers in that space quickly, relatively painlessly, and of course cost is always a factor. By being able to address something as a service, you’re able to reduce that huge front end expenditure with some of these tools. You can see pretty rapid adoption even in the federal space which is sometimes a little bit more conservative. So I’ll be interested to see how it all plays out. We’ve developed some federal specific offerings around the idea of coming in and understanding the portfolio quickly so we’re very excited about what they put together. I think there’s going to be a lot of people that see this as how they are going to continue to meet the mission given even the extraordinary challenges that we are facing today.