Application Portfolio Management
Application Portfolio Management (APM) is the practice of governing and optimizing inventories of software application to achieve precise business objectives. This is accomplished by creating transparent overviews of the Business/ IT application landscapes needed to evaluate costs, performance, standardize software throughout business enterprise and promote agility and innovation. APM involves the following:
- Documenting past, present, and future applications deployed or planned to be
- Document application profile description attributes and capabilities
- Identify and/or automating profile changes to application service lifecycle
- Organizing applications according to IT/business capabilities
- Mapping application relationships of IT components to supporting technologies stacks
MiTECH works with your organization to develop and implement a comprehensive Application Portfolio Management solution. We use pre-developed best practice Application Profile templates, automated proprietary toolsets that provide intuitive end-to-end application life cycle management process workflows that accelerates APM development.
- Identify Business/IT Application Owners
- Schedule and conduct Application and Service Owner Training
- Complete Business and Technology Application Inventory
- Stakeholders review Application Profile Templates, customize application data/Information attributes
- Application Owners complete IBSM Application Profile and descriptions: capabilities, Users, Supporting Technology, Costs
- Applications Owner Review IBSM Application Profiles with Stakeholders & Sign-off
- Application Owners link/map applications to other dependent/supporting applications
- Application Owners link/map applications to dependent Services
- Application Owners link/map applications to supporting Servers
- Owners and Users complete Grading of technical and functional value of Applications
- Review and Sign-off on Business and IT Application Portfolio and operationalize