Case Studies Application Portfolio Management using
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A Quick Tour of
Application Portfolio Management
using Enterprise Architect
Get started with an APM solution with a comprehensive predefined configuration that enables users to embark on their journey of Application Portfolio Management.
Fast-track your architectural objectives
with a proven approach
Catalog your Application Inventory
- Get started by importing existing applications, domains, owners, projects, and service information from Excel or connecting to your external systems using the RESTful API.
- View a transparent list of applications and all their key attributes and interdependencies.
- Filter, slice, and dice to find the applications of your interest and analyze them in detail.
- Have role-specific views to have a focused interface to view and update Application information.
Enable Insightful Analysis of Applications
- Comprehensive Analysis Tools to answer key Business queries.
- Ascertain the total cost of operations of applications through in various lenses to track the effectiveness of your IT investments.
- Drive assessments based on various application attributes to determine the best suitable fit and outlook for the Application in the rationalization exercise.
- Show how your applications support and enable the business by linking them to the functional domains and sub-domains that drive business functions.
Advanced Roadmapping
- Provide stakeholders with transparency to monitor and track the status of transformations and lifecycle.
- Multiple factors could drive change in the Lifecycle of Projects and Applications. The Roadmap illustrates how applications and projects shall change across multiple time horizons.
- The Roadmaps can be sliced and diced based on various attributes of the application to provide a wider context for decision-making.
- It utilizes Scope Application Rationalization efforts based on various application attributes such as Criticality, Data Classification, Hosting Type, Business Unit, IT unit, and much more.
Design-Tailored Rationalization Viewpoints
- Use TIME categorization to prioritize opportunities for portfolio improvement using business and technology fitness, risk, and cost.
- Use the Domain Hierarchy map to identify functional capabilities alignment with applications, and identify risks, redundancies, and threats.
- Get an overview of data flows and dependencies between applications through interfaces that are provided and consumed.
- Identify candidates for rationalization with pre-defined reports that will help analyze the costs and value of each application.
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