The need for application portfolio management
Application portfolio management encompasses the assessment, rationalization and optimization of an organization’s entire application portfolio. This process drives your business to reduce functional redundancy, minimize cost and align IT investments with business strategy.
Many organizations waste effort and money running and maintaining unnecessary applications. Worse yet, they may face increased risk from higher complexity and aging technologies in their IT landscape. When an organization has excessive applications, it will experience higher barriers to fast and effective business change thanks to the challenges of impact and dependencies.
Without an enterprise-wide view of the entire application portfolio and how it links to the dimensions of business, information, technology and change, it is impossible to make informed decisions that align resources with business strategy.
BiZZdesign’s solution to improving the application landscape
BiZZdesign enables you to visualize your application portfolio in terms of:
- Cost
- Risk
- Business value
- Technical value
- Alignment with business capabilities
- … and more
With comprehensive insight into the enterprise application landscape, your organization will be empowered to make better decisions faster and be better able to optimize your application portfolio. By analyzing applications in their architectural context, an organization can plan and communicate application roadmaps, taking into account dependencies and the impact of change, as well as identify the benefits provided by more effective planning and investment in digital transformation.