First steps for the Portfolio Analyst

The Portfolio Analyst user profile is for users who are responsible for strategic decisions about the IT portfolio management. You can view all assets in the repository but you will not be able to edit data with this user profile. 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.

	Establish governance of your IT assets with business questions that address responsibility and accountability for IT assets and where to focus your change efforts.
	Gain transparency of your IT portfolio with business questions that provide insight about the as-is landscape, architectural dependencies, and technical debt.
	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.
	Plan your application roadmap using business questions that enable your company to coordinate IT change efforts so change is efficient and fast.
	Assess risk to your business with business questions 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.
	Manage migration to the cloud with business questions that focus on making your migration to the cloud fast and reliable by helping you to identify cloud candidates in alignment with your migration strategy.