First steps for the Portfolio Manager

The Portfolio Manager user profile is for users who are responsible to input, maintain, and analyze data relevant for IT portfolio management. This user profile provides access to data workbenches for all object classes so that you can ensure that the IT repository in Alfabet FastLane is complete and up-to-date. You can view all assets in the repository and you can can edit any assets that you have authorized access to via as authorized user or member of an authorized user group.

All business questions are available to you so that you can understand the most critical aspects of your IT portfolio.

Your My Dashboard page offers an overview about the IT architecture as well as quick access to all business questions. Click to learn how you can change the content and layout of your My Dashboard page.

Here's what you can do as the portfolio manager:

Flow_PM_Maintain  Capture and maintain the assets in the IT portfolio and use that information to make informed and strategic business decisions about your IT portfolio.
Flow_PM_Govern  Establish governance of your IT assets with business questions that address responsibility and accountability for IT assets and where to focus your change efforts.
Flow_PM_Transparency  Gain transparency of your IT portfolio with business questions that provide insight about the as-is landscape, architectural dependencies, and technical debt.
FlowPM_Rationalize  Rationalize your application landscape using business questions to identify functional redundancies in your IT and understand how to eliminate the complexity of architectural dependencies without endangering critical business areas.
FlowPM_Roadmap  Plan your application roadmap using business questions that enable your company to coordinate IT change efforts so change is efficient and fast.
Flow_PM_Risk  Assess risk to your business with analyses that support business and IT innovation with the confidence of better compliance, decreased risk to critical applications, and knowledge of the potential impact of IT security issues on critical business areas.
FlowPM_Cloud  Manage migration to the cloud with business questions that focus on making your migration to the cloud fast and reliable and help you to identify cloud candidates in alignment with your migration strategy.