Manage the application portfolio

Application portfolio governance provides the foundation for managing your organization's application landscape with clarity, accountability, and strategic intent. With a single source of truth about your application portfolio, you can identify which business processes and business capabilities rely most heavily on IT support to prioritize resources and ensure critical operations are well-served.

Analyzing the ownership of applications allows you to streamline responsibility and lifecycle management. Analyze operational expenditure (OPEX) across the portfolio to uncover cost drivers and opportunities for optimization. Define a rationalization strategy to reduce redundancy, eliminate underperforming applications, and improve overall efficiency. Evaluation which applications are suitable for cloud migration based on scalability, cost, and business value. Finally assess the security posture your your application data to safeguard sensitive information and maintain compliance. With strong governance, your application portfolio becomes a strategic asset -- aligned, efficient, and secure.

IT architects and domain experts responsible for maintaining and reporting on the application portfolio can access 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.

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Rationalize the application portfolio. Understand where redundancies exist with the business question What is our application portfolio?
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Who owns which applications?ensures you understand which organizations are the business owners and IT owners of applications and endure there are no gaps in organizational responsibility.
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Identify application-dense business processes and understand whether redundant applications can be rationalized. Review where application support is missing for critical business processes in order to identify potential risks early with the business question Which business areas require the most IT support?
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Track the current and planned application budgets on a yearly basis and identify the most important rationalization candidatesWhat is our OPEX distribution?
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Track application usage from an organizational perspective with the business question Where are our applications used?
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The business question What is the status of our rationalization plan? lets you carry out a trend analysis and assess the financial impact of your rationalization activities.
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Manage migration with the cloud by assessing which applications to migrate with the business question What are our cloud focus areas?
BQ_Flow_WhatIsCloudMigration_L  Review migration plans for each application with the business question What is our cloud migration strategy?

To work with Alfabet 's business questions focusing on application portfolio analysis, you must have a license to IT Transformation Server - Enterprise. The use case Application Portfolio Governance must be enabled. This use case enables the following business questions:

  • What is our application portfolio?
  • Who owns which applications?
  • Which business process areas require the most IT support?
  • What is our OPEX distribution?
  • Where are our applications used?
  • What is our security score?
  • What is the status of our rationalization plan?
  • What are our cloud focus areas?
  • What is our cloud migration strategy?