User journey: Application Portfolio Management

Application portfolio management is an essential strategic planning capability for IT organizations. Alfabet FastLane helps you to make investments in your application landscape that are in line with the business strategy and that investments are made in a way that minimizes cost and risk, while at the same time delivering the required functionality and flexibility to fulfill business goals.

Alfabet FastLane supports you to capture the applications in your IT landscape and document which parts of the business are reliant on which applications. Application lifecycle management ensures that your roadmap takes into account which applications will support your business capabilities at a specific moment in time. With a single source of truth about the application landscape, your company can rest assured that the complexity of the IT is understood when planning, rationalizing, and transforming the IT portfolio.

IT architects and domain experts responsible for maintaining and reporting on the application portfolio can access Alfabet FastLane by means of the Application Manager and Portfolio Manager user profiles. Whereas the Portfolio Manager has read-write permissions to all object classes relevant to the technology portfolio, users with the Application Manager user profile will primarily add applications to the repository and specify their relationships to other existing assets in the IT portfolio.

Here's what you can do:

Flow_APM_Maintain 

Capture information about your applications and their relevance for the business. Describe the information context of the business. Assign applications to application groups for analysis.
Flow_APM_Responsibilities 

Assess application responsibilities to ensure that those who may have information about or a stake in the application can be contacted when important decisions need to be made with the business question Who is responsible for our assets?
Flow_APM_Rationalize 

Rationalize the application portfolio. Understand where redundancies exist with the business question What is our application portfolio? Recognize where to focus rationalization activities with the business question What are our investment and retirement candidates? Assess applications and their impact on the business with the business question What is our application landscape?
Flow_APM_Roadmap 

Understand application lifecycles so that you can plan the application roadmap with the help of the business question What is our application roadmap?
Flow_APM_Cloud 

Manage migration with the cloud by assessing which applications to migrate with the business question What are our cloud focus areas? Review migration plans for each application with the business question What is our cloud migration strategy?
Flow_APM_Investment 

Manage investments by understanding your key project trends with the business question What is our CAPEX distribution? Make sure your project costs remain within budget with the business question What is our project portfolio roadmap?