Manage the technology portfolio

Technology portfolio governance provides the structure needed to manage your organization's technology assets with clarity, consistency, and strategic control. With a well-documented component inventory, review the components that support your applications, infrastructure, and IT capabilities. This includes everything from middleware and databases to cloud services and hardware platforms.

Identify the vendors supplying each component to maintain transparency in sourcing and support. Document where your applications are deployed—whether on physical servers, virtual machines, or cloud environments—to understand operational dependencies and optimize resource allocation. Maintain a standards catalog to ensure technologies align with architectural principles and compliance requirements. Assign ownership to each technology asset to clarify accountability and streamline lifecycle management. With a well-governed technology portfolio, you can reduce risk, improve efficiency, and support long-term innovation.

	The business question What is our technology portfolio? is a master list of your technologies and provides an overview about the IT capabilities, the organizations that own the most components, and the object states of the components in the technology portfolio.
	Understand the reliance of your technology on vendors with the help of the business question Who are our vendors?
	Know where applications are located in order to initiate security and disaster recovery activities for locations with critical applications via the business question Where are our applications deployed?
	Assess compliance with your standards catalog with the business question What is our standards catalog?
	The business question Who owns our technologies? ensures that organizational responsibility is known for all components in the technology portfolio in order to avoid gaps in organizational responsibility to mitigate risk to your company's IT infrastructure.