5 Ways to Get Your
Application Portfolio Under
Control An Innotas Executive Webinar
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“Without ‘active’ management, the application
stack becomes a heavier anchor on an
organization’s ability to be agile and flexible.
Thus, how an IT or application organization seeks to
balance project and application portfolios
has a strong bearing on the organization’s future.”
Jim Duggan
Research VP
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APM & PPM Trends
According to a recent Gartner survey of 1,000 PPM practioners, about 25% of them have mastered the discipline of true portfolio management.
What is “true portfolio management”?
Gartner: The integration or assembly of investment, project, asset and service portfolios into a set of coordinated views.
Innotas is a ‘visionary’ in Integrated IT portfolio analysis (IIPA) to support true portfolio management.
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5 Ways to Get Your Apps under Control
1. Create an inventory of all your applications
2. Reduce redundant apps
3. Identify the business value and costs of each app
4. Map your apps in a TIME chart
5. Optimize resources against applications
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1. Create an Inventory
Conduct a manual inventory or automate the inventory collection.
Most companies use spreadsheets to keep track of their app inventory. It’s easy to upload them into Innotas PPM/APM tool.
Decide how much to inventory.
IT application inventories are simple tools that can greatly
facilitate the process of IT governance. They are an essential
part of the first IT governance component, defining the overall
IT infrastructure.
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2. Identify redundant applications
Identify the applications tied to the same business processes
Identify the preferred technology
Assess the value of the applications
Identify any applications that are redundant or can be replaced/retired
Average Global Company Has 20% of Redundant
Applications. Half agree that up to 50% of their
application portfolio needs to be retired
CapGemini, Application Landscape report
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3. Indentify business value and costs
“Driving a common view of the overall value of a business application portfolio with end-user organizations is a critical
initiative that the IT department must ‘own’.’’
Jim Duggan, Research VP at Gartner
Some firms focus solely on financial value measurements (cost avoidance, net present value, ROI, payback period, etc.)
IT organizations should consider the sum of the business values of everything it supports.
IT investments should be mapped to five areas: strategic alignment, business process impact, architecture, direct payback, risk, and customer/revenue.
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4. Map applications in TIME Chart
Assessing an application against the dimensions of
business value and risk enables you to classify
applications by strategy. Planning around high-level
categories like tolerate, invest, migrate and eliminate
(TIME) is a key step in the APM process, and ensures a
manageable and cost-effective program.
Jim Duggan from Gartner in Application
Portfolio Triage: TIME for APM
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5. Optimize resources against applications
Once costs/efforts are identified against applications, identify areas for increased efficiency
Balance resources across application activities and projects
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