Application portfolio reporting and intelligence features

Analytic Center is an interactive business analytics feature within APC that provides visualization of the application portfolio information and enables drill-down to the specific underlying information.

Use of Analytic Center on the organisation's portfolio of applications ensures an efficient and effective continuous control of the organisation's application portfolio. Key information, conclusions and insights will be input to fact-based decision-making and tactical and strategic planning.

Analysis with Analytic Center provides answers to key questions such as:p>

• Application portfolio governance: IT owners and business owners, organisational ownership
• Usage of applications: most used, least used, geographical usage
• Delivery: organisation, capacity and models
• Life cycle states
• Technologies e.g. operating systems, implementation technology
• Interdependencies
• Supplier complexity and exposure
• Information management e.g. information quality assurance, information ownership

Portfolio governance analysis and control

The very first step in the APC-process is to establish a clear and effective governance structure for the whole application portfolio and the individual applications. This is a cornerstone to successful application portfolio management and a foundation to evolve the complex environment of applications to increased business value of IT.

APC’s Analytic Center empowers the organisation to get key insights of status of the governance structure and enables control of the deployment and maintenance of key roles that governs the applications.

Delivery organisation and capacity analysis

Spread of application operations and delivery models impacts strategic and tactical decisions. Data center consolidations, potential for transformation to outsourcing and cloud delivery models is dependent on your organisation’s current situation.

Analytic center provides preset reports to get insight on the overall situation as well as adding the execution of plans e.g. outsourcing, data center moves.

Applications usage

The organisation’s usage of its application's is a key input, not only for cost distribution but also for assessing the complexity and impact of transformation projects.

Analytic center features enable analysis on different views the usage of the application portfolio and groups of applications.

Life cycle states

An overall portfolio analysis on the life cycle states of the applications will identify opportunities for cost rationalization, both short and long term.

A visualized view on the potential for transformations e.g. retirements, will support joint IT and business prioritizations, plans and transformations.

Architecture, technologies and security

Understanding the gap between current state of technology compared to architectural guiding principles and business requirements and drivers is vital to make decisions and strategical/tactical plans that mitigate risks and utilize opportunities.

APC’s Analytic Center feature provides several ways to analyze architecture, technology and security views of the application portfolio.

Interdependencies

The complexity with interdependencies between applications is a challenge for the transformation of the IT landscape to meet new business requirements and utilizing new technologies and delivery models.

Another key interdependency, to govern, is how the business services delivered are dependent on the application or group of applications.

The oversight and detailed information about the interdependencies is key functionality within APC.

Supplier complexity and exposure

Oversight and management of the total portfolio of suppliers is key to effective sourcing and IT cost optimization. To understand the volume and dependency of one or several suppliers is a must to mitigate risks in the supply chain.

Visualization of the total portfolio of suppliers and drill-down features provided by APC’s Analytic Center empowers the organisation to rationalize and mitigate risks within the portfolio of suppliers.

Information management

Effective information management to ensure high quality of the applications information is key in application portfolio management.

Utilizing Analytic Center’s information management reports and drill down features ensures a clear view of the quality of information and the need for improvements, and key measures, to reach required quality of the application information.