User journey: Technology Portfolio Management

The technology portfolio constitutes the nuts-and-bolts of your company's IT portfolio and is critical to the seamless operation of the applications that support your business capabilities. An up-to-date inventory of your company's technologies is key to understanding dependencies between the application portfolio and the technology architecture and mitigating risk to the IT infrastructure. Alfabet FastLane 's technology portfolio management capabilities ensures that you can provide current and reliable information about the technologies in use, the vendors that provide the technologies, which applications use the technologies, and the business capabilities that the technologies support.

IT architects and domain experts responsible for maintaining and reporting on the technology portfolio can access by means of the Technology 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 Technology Manager user profile will primarily add components to the repository and specify their relationships to other existing assets in the IT portfolio.

Here's what you can do:

TPM_Maintain 

Describe the technology domain including the components and the IT capabilities they support as well as the vendors that supply the components. Capture the physical server and virtual servers that applications run on and where the servers are located.
Flow_TPM_ITImpact 

Understand risks to the technology landscape with the business question How will IT failure impact our business?
Flow_TPM_Standards 

Manage technology standards by assessing information dependencies with the business question What are our architectural dependencies? Assess compliance with your standards catalog with the business question What is our standards catalog?
Flow_TPM_VEndors 

Understand the reliance of your technology on vendors with the help of the business question Who are our vendors?
Flow_TPM_TechDebt 

Understand the impact of end-of-life technologies on the business with the business question What is our technical debt?