Application Portfolio Management (APM) Add-In
CA PPM SaaS has Application and Portfolio Management (APM) capabilities that allow organizations to track and analyze their application portfolio. The application portfolio is an important portfolio to manage for the following reasons:
- Organizations tend to accumulate applications over time (due to purchasing, mergers and acquisitions) and not all applications deliver value.
- Certain applications may be redundant to each other, meaning that an organization has multiple applications that deliver the same capability.
- Research tells us that organizations typically have a larger percentage of IT spend aligned to supporting these applications.
- Organizations have limited budgets and are constrained with respect to funding innovation.
Benefits
The Application Portfolio Management (APM) add-in helps you manage your application portfolios. APM shares objectives that align with your existing project and portfolio management goals. This add-in helps you invest in people and allocate funds to their maximum value. Application rationalization and risk management help you reduce costs and deliver the most important services.
Organizations that are interested in Application Portfolio Management are concerned with a few key questions:
- Which applications can we retire to save money?
- Which applications can we add to the portfolio?
- How can we better manage application risk?
- How are our projects performing on key applications?
Use APM to rank your applications based on mission criticality, risk, business value, and technical value.
What Does the APM Add-In Include?
This add-in includes new CA PPM SaaS attributes, subobjects, portlets, and the following reports:
- Application Assessment Analysis: This report compares mission criticality with risk. Use this report to identify the high-risk critical applications and to determine which actions to take as a result.
- KPIs by Application: This report lists applications, that are grouped by either manager, software category, or mission criticality. Use this report to view the key performance indicators of value score, technical score, and risk score with the number of users and the annual planned cost for each application.
Like other add-ins, APM is delivered as part of CA PPM SaaS. Your organization can decide whether to install and use this optional functionality.R
