Application Portfolio Management

Perhaps a rebranding of the application section of the Enterprise Architecture, Application Portfolio Management (APM) is a healthy way to inventory, and rationalize an organization's applications.

By rationalize, we mean "to form a rational conception of". In other words, are all the applications that IT currently supports governed by reason?

Applications are assets provided their costs do not exceed delivered value.

• How can I marshal the resources required for new projects and initiatives?
• What applications are impacted by a new project?
• If we eliminate this application, what other applications and databases will need modification?
• What applications should be integrated, consolidated or eliminated?
• What applications provide redundant functionality?
• Which applications cost the most to support?
• What can I do to control costs?
• Where are we underutilizing assets due to fragmentation, lack of common definitions or lack of integration?

Resources:

• DCI Web Seminar - Application Rationalization: Taking Stock of the IT Portfolio to Accommodate Business Needs (PDF / Watch Presentation)