Application Portfolio Manager™
Business Benefits
Application Portfolio Manager provides role-based business and technical insights that enable users to identify, prioritize, and execute application portfolio modernization initiatives.
Application Portfolio Manager centralizes business and technical intelligence for portfolios across mainframe, mid-range, and distributed environments. Browser-based, customizable dashboards provide trended metrics that highlight inefficiencies. These role-specific views enable CIOs, line of business executives, analysts, and developers to prioritize and execute informed application modernization decisions.
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Application Portfolio Manager is an integrated module of the Modernization Workbench. Its ability to collect and present insights for portfolio governance delivers:
Collection of Business Insights
Application Portfolio Manager collects business intelligence via pre-configured, customizable, and industry-focused questionnaires. These qualitative insights measure and trend the business value of processes and applications within your portfolio.
Generation of Technical Intelligence
Application Portfolio Manager centralizes quantitative measurements of applications' technical quality. Metrics such as cyclomatic complexity, maintainability, and more are accessible from a standards-based knowledgebase. This intelligence provides a combined technical and business perspective on the value and challenges of the application portfolio.
Simplified Third-Party Integration
Application Portfolio Manager can be rapidly extended to support your growing needs. Through public interfaces, third-party technologies can populate metrics and other data into the standards-based knowledgebase. Users can then access this refined data through the browser interface, further improving their portfolio decisions.
Browser-Based Access to Application Insights
Application Portfolio Manager allows even remote users to collect current metrics and visualizations of their application portfolio, removing bottlenecks and encouraging information flow. Additionally, because the module is browser-based, there is no extra software to maintain for users. The intuitive interface means that users are immediately productive.
Customizable User Perspectives
Application Portfolio Manager offers different perspectives into the portfolio, depending on a user's needs. CIOs, analysts, line of business executives, developers, outsourcing managers, and others can readily configure the module to display only information that is relevant.
Reduced Cost of Implementation
Application Portfolio Manager is priced at a fraction of the cost of alternative solutions. This allows organizations to quickly make and justify application modernization decisions that yield real business value.
Immediate Value
Application Portfolio Manager allows users to deploy pre-configured, customizable, browser-based questionnaires to collect information about where business value and problems lie within the portfolio. This allows managers to quickly identify priority areas from a business perspective that should be addressed via modernization.
Focus on Priority Areas
Application Portfolio Manager allows users to identify and prioritize inefficiencies from a high-level. These priorities can be passed to others in the organization, who can then quickly 'zoom-in' to address the precise cause.
Execute Modernization Decisions
Application Portfolio Manager addresses the critical question: 'what now?' Through its integration into the Modernization Workbench platform, users can seamlessly move from prioritizing to executing SOA enablement, refactoring, redevelopment, business rule modeling, and other application modernization initiatives.
Accelerated Documentation and Knowledge Transfer
Application Portfolio Manager offers ready access to rich and current application diagrams. Users can select from a wide spectrum of scopes, including screen flows, dependencies, call maps, source code, and others. This enables managers and other users to quickly understand the structure of their applications without consuming the time of a subject matter expert. Further, users can query the knowledgebase to uncover impacts that could result from requested application modernizations.