<p>Gravitant announced Wednesday cloudMatrix 7.0, its cloudMatrix brokerage and management platform. cloudMatrix has enabled customers to deliver an IT-as-a-service model and forge a closer connection between IT and the business.</p><p>Normally, the relationship between business and IT is stuck at the service request or "trouble ticket" process. But cloudMatrix re-defines the relationship by providing a common collaboration and synchronization platform between business and IT.</p><p>The 7.0 release of cloudMatrix extends this collaboration across the entire solution lifecycle from initial sourcing to enhanced financial management and governance of the cloud spend.</p><p>cloudMatrix 7.0 will help solution providers and enterprise IT organizations provide a standardized means to screen applications for cloud readiness as well as govern the end-to-end cloud financial process, and will also help Government agencies comply with the Antideficiency act to enable users to determine the cloud readiness of their application portfolio using an analytics-based knowledge engine and get enhanced active financial management tools to control spend through budget policy for each application running in the cloud. It also enhances financial management includes contract price and pricing rules management.</p><p><a href="http://wwpi.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16935:gravitant-unveils-cloudmatrix-70-extending-capabilities-of-its-cloud-service-brokerage-software-across-the-cloud-&catid=324:breaking-news&Itemid=2701735">Keep reading...</a></p>