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Application Portfolio

Management

13 -15 March 2012


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Agenda

 Where is the pain?


 What is Application Portfolio Management (APM)?
 Overview of the Rational solution for APM
 Solution Scenarios
 Summary

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Agenda

 Where is the pain?


 What is Application Portfolio Management (APM)?
 Overview of the Rational solution for APM
 Solution Scenarios
 Summary

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IBM Institute for Business Value

CIO mandates come with distinct characteristics that line up with the
organization’s goals and strategy

Expand Mandate Leverage Mandate


Streamline operations and
Refine business processes
increase organizational
and enhance collaboration
effectiveness

Transform Mandate Pioneer Mandate


Change the industry value Radically innovate
chain through improved products, markets,
relationships business models

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IBM Institute for Business Value

Leverage mandate: CIOs continually review their legacy


environment, including hardware and their application portfolio
How CIOs plan to control / reduce legacy cost
(allocation of 100 points across 7 activities)

Rationalize application portfolio 23%

Gradually alter hardware (5 to 10 years) 18%

Radically and totally renew IT environment 15%

Use outsource partner 13%

Utilize cloud services 12%

Use SOA to modernize / replace legacy 8%

Wrap / isolate legacy environment 7%

“Remove Legacy - it is taking more and more time to support, tying up


resources needed to support new clients on new technologies.”
Travel & Transportation CIO, United States
Source: 2011 CIO Study, Q16: “How do you plan to control and/or reduce the costs of your Legacy environment in the next 3 to 5 years?” (n=2,417); percentages represent average
percentage; figures may not total to 100% as “Other” priorities have not been included

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Problem: Insufficient strategic spend and lacking business agility

 Cost – 80/20 budget trap


– Maintenance and operations consumes a
significant % of a declining IT budget, limiting
funds available for new initiatives
 Business agility
– Brittle and tightly coupled architectures,
unwarranted complexity, and technology
proliferation
 Strategic planning
– Inability to actively plan strategic initiatives;
Cloud, Mobile, Compliance, M&A, and
Divestitures
 Risk / supportability
– Skills erosion, baby boomer retirements, and
aging technology

“A large UK bank initiated its APM effort to take a 90:10 ratio for run-the-bank / grow-the-bank down
to a more reasonable 40:60 ratio. Dell shifted its maintenance-to-innovation ratio from 80:20 to 50:50.”
– The Application Portfolio Management Landscape — Combine Process And Tools To Tame The Beast
Phil Murphy, Forrester Research, Inc. April 15, 2011

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What leads to…. application overload?
Multiple situations/scenarios..

 M&A activity
 Highly distributed operating model
– Many functional or geographic silos
– Federated IT structure
 Impact analysis/where-used not available
– From a top-down or bottoms-up perspective
 Attrition

•?
– Loss of key personnel resulting in low understanding of
existing assets
 Not a strategic focus in the past
– Emphasis placed on growing and establishing business
systems
– Cost of maintenance has not been understood

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Agenda

 Where is the pain?


 What is Application Portfolio Management (APM)?
 Overview of the Rational solution for APM
 Solution Scenarios
 Summary

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A Definition of Application Portfolio Management

Application portfolio management (APM) provides information and


analytics that enables objective and transparent decisions around
investing, consolidating, modernizing, or replacing applications.

Benefits:
• Reduce costs and optimize value
• Increase speed-to-deployment and speed-to-market
• Reduce risk associated with technology or resources
• Align the application portfolio with business strategies
• Implement shared services

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Smarter Application Portfolio Management

Today’s Application Portfolio? Tomorrow’s Application Portfolio?

What do I have? Where can I save?


What does it cost? Where should I invest?
What are the risks? How do I reduce risks?

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IBM’s Smarter Approach
 Capture, organize and analyze information about the application portfolio, drive business-based decisions:
1. Identify redundant, obsolete, unused or underutilized applications and
software assets
2. Identify high-risk, high-cost applications and software assets
3. Identify opportunities for consolidation, development and investment,
based on business needs
4. Create target application portfolio answering:
1. What will be retired
2. What will be sustained
3. What will be consolidated
4. What should be purchased
5. What should be developed
6. What should be enhanced
7. What should be replaced
8. What should be re-hosted
5. Create detailed roadmap for change
6. Create reports to monitor progress

Source: What Comes Next After Application Assessment,


Forrester Research, Inc., January 26, 2011

Invest Reduce
Modernize Replace and retire

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Smarter APM: Leverage EA and PPM Capabilities
Where should we
What do we
invest?
have?

How/when will
Where are we
we get there?
going?

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Agenda

 Pain Points that Organizations are encountering with their IT portfolio


 What is Application Portfolio Management (APM)?
 Overview of the Rational solution for APM
 Solution Scenarios
 Summary

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Accelerator for Smarter APM

Roles
Business Application Enterprise
Analyst Architect LOB/PMO
Architect
Assets
The Analysis and Planning Process QuickStart
Products Strategic Intent &
Services to fast-track the
process and train the
Application team
Rational Landscape
Focal Point
Best Practices
Suggested steps and
Demand actions, documented by
Business & role and capability to
Executive Management
Rational Technology perform the accelerator.
System Dashboards
Prioritization
Architect Asset
Management Report Templates
Project Impact and Reports that aid the
Execution Project Gap Analysis analysis, planning and
Planning monitoring of the project.

Configurations
Transition Plan Metamodels and
Capabilities workspaces tuned to
support APM tasks.

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Solution Overview – Primary Components

Rational Focal Point™ Architectural context Rational System Architect


Analysis, decisions, execution Impact analysis, architectural
roadmaps roadmaps, future visioning

Execution Execution
Status roadmap

Business Product Collaborative


Planning & & Project Lifecycle Compliance
Alignment Management Management & Security
Engineering
Your & Software
existing capabilities Tools 3rd-Party
Future Jazz
IBM Capabilities
Capabilities
Best Practice Processes

Administration:
Collaboration Users, projects,
process
Presentation: Storage
Mashups
Discovery Query

Rational Application Lifecycle


Management (RTC)
Project execution in collaborative team environment

APM decisions and plans are executed and tracked in Rational Team Concert

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Component Overview – Rational Focal Point

 Focus decisions on what matters most in driving


business results
 Capture inputs consistently and with increased
objectivity
 Perform trade-off analyses to make informed
investment decisions
Rational Focal Point
 Identify and sequence activities and deliverables
by objective measures of value
 Quickly align and adjust roadmaps to changing
market needs and business value
 Monitor progress and impact with dashboards and
analytics
 Repeatable, role-based workflows and views
 Integrations into enterprise vision and execution
environments
 Fully web-based architecture

Make collaborative, objective decisions that deliver business value

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Component Overview – Rational System Architect

 Capture your enterprise, including strategy, processes,


organization, applications, technologies
 Understand current state and relationships between
elements, leveraging diagrams, heat maps, and other
visualizations
 Assess gaps and analyze impact of changes across
the enterprise Rational System Architect
 Visualize architectural roadmaps and options for future
state
 Make enterprise architecture actionable through
integration with delivery management, application
lifecycle environments, and enterprise modernization
environments
 Support for multiple frameworks and modeling
standards
 Windows and web-based clients

Enterprise blueprinting for better business outcomes

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Component Overview – Rational Team Concert

 Collaborative software planning and development


environment aspect of the Rational Application
Lifecycle Management solution
 Promote collaboration across disciplines and
distributed teams to increase effectiveness and
improve quality
 Integrate iteration planning, work item tracking,
source control, continuous builds
 Establish traceability across artifacts
 Customize, enact, and automate processes to
increase efficiency and reduce manual errors
Your
Business
Planning &
Alignment
Product
& Project
Management
Collaborative
Lifecycle
Management
Compliance
& Security
Engineering
& Software
 Gain transparency on project health with cross-
product reporting and lifecycle queries
existing capabilities Tools 3rd-Party
Future Jazz
IBM Capabilities
Capabilities
Best Practice Processes

 Jazz-based platform supporting integrations


Administration:
Collaboration
Presentation:
Mashups
Discovery Query
Storage
Users, projects,
process
across the lifecycle within and outside Rational
Rational Application Lifecycle
Management (RTC)

A lean collaborative lifecycle management solution

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Solution Overview – Entry Points
FP + SA Entry Point
FP Only Entry Point (NEW)

Rational Focal Point Rational System Architect


Architectural context
Analysis, decisions, execution Impact analysis, architectural
roadmaps. roadmaps, future visioning

Execution Execution
Status roadmap

Business Product Collaborative


Planning & & Project Lifecycle Compliance
Alignment Management Management & Security
Engineering
Your & Software
existing capabilities Tools 3rd-Party
Future Jazz
IBM Capabilities
Capabilities
Best Practice Processes

Administration:
Collaboration Users, projects,
process
Presentation: Storage
Mashups
Discovery Query

Rational Application Lifecycle


Management (RTC, RRC)
Project execution in collaborative team environment

Incremental adoption path for clients without EA practices

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Usage scenarios across multiple adoption paths
Portfolio-lead APM Enterprise Architecture-lead APM

 Focus areas:  Focus areas:


– APM as a governance process supported – Understanding the enterprise context
by analytics of applications
– Collaborative decision making – Evaluating architectural alternatives
– Establishing project roadmaps – Establishing architectural roadmaps

 Solution:  Solution:
– Rational Focal Point: Analyze application – Rational System Architect: Understand the
portfolio, identify candidate decisions, prioritize enterprise architecture, define solution alternatives,
options, and propose and plan projects and produce architectural roadmaps
– Rational System Architect: Optionally use – Rational Focal Point: Prioritize solution
to investigate candidate decisions identified alternatives identified in System Architect and
in Rational Focal Point propose and plan projects

 When appropriate:  When appropriate:


– Currently using spreadsheets or initiative driven – Mature enterprise architecture practice in place
without mandating the rigor of a mature enterprise or is being established
architecture practice

These two starting points often evolve to a model


benefiting from both perspectives
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Extended Solution Overview
Tivoli Code
Tivoli Rational Code
products Rational analysis
products Asset analysis
(TADDM, Asset tools
(TADDM, Analyzer tools
CCMDB…) Analyzer
CCMDB…)

Application inventory
Operational quality Code quality indicators

Rational Focal Point Rational System Architect


Architectural context
Analysis, decisions, execution Impact analysis, architectural
roadmaps. roadmaps, future visioning

Execution Execution
Status roadmap

Business
Planning &
Product
& Project
Collaborative
Lifecycle Compliance
Rational Insight
Your
existing capabilities
Alignment Management Management & Security
Engineering
& Software
Tools
Enterprise reporting and dashboards
3rd-Party
Future Jazz
IBM Capabilities
Capabilities
Best Practice Processes

Rational Publishing Engine


Collaboration
Presentation:
Mashups
Storage
Administration:
Users, projects,
process
Published reports Solution Support
Quick Start
Discovery Query

Rational Application Lifecycle Best Practices


Management (RTC, RRC, RQM) Report Templates
Project execution in collaborative team environment
Configurations

End-to-end support for application portfolio management

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Agenda

 Pain Points that Organizations are encountering with their IT portfolio


 What is Application Portfolio Management (APM)?
 Overview of the Rational solution for APM
 Solution Scenarios
 Summary

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Smarter Application Portfolio Management
Logical workflow

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Analyse the portfolio and identify rationalisation opportunities
Smarter Application Portfolio Management

Activity Activity Activity Activity Activity Activity


 Identify information  Identify applications  Assess and review  Create proposed  Rank and prioritize  Create Projects for
sources – including in scope that are compiled target solution opportunities implementation
Enterprise opportunities for application architectures that
 Perform value versus  Create Roadmaps
Architecture consideration. information (scoring address key
risk, cost, and time for planning
sources and ranking) business
Run reports assessment
objectives  Output
 Gather application  Categorise
Perform  Select opportunities
and business applications using  Perform  Ongoing governance
Analyses and propose as
information value matrix architectural Impact and management of
projects.
View & Dependency application portfolio
 Populate inventory  Suggest a selection
Dashboards Analysis.  Output rationalization
repository of application
 Define assessment rationalization  Determine, review  Executive Report
 Validate data with
criteria opportunities and assess gaps summary and details
client
and migrations;
 Define application  Prioritised,
propose solutions
scoring and ranking sequenced set of
architectures.
principles recommendations;
applications will be
 Retired
 Retained
 Replaced
 Renovated
 Restructured
 Reprioritized

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Example Application Portfolio Rationalization Workflow

Portfolio Analyze impacts


Analyst Scope initial and recommend
iteration rationalization
initiatives

Enterprise
Architect Collect
application
inventory

Provide Provide detailed


application application
Application information information
Business Owner /
Architect

Select applications Review and Monitor


Set objectives for further approve progress &
and priorities health
Steering investigation recommendations
Committee

Execute
transformation
projects
Project Mgmt
Office

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1: Catalog the inventory
In Focal Point:
 Use web-based forms to
Portfolio Analyze impacts add applications to
Analyst Scope initial and recommend repository
iteration rationalization  Import spreadsheet of
initiatives
application data into Focal
Point repository
Enterprise
Architect Or
Collect
application In System Architect:
inventory  Use SA/ XT web interface
to contribute to application
Provide Provide detailed architecture
application application  Import application data
Application information information
from spreadsheet into SA
Business Owner /
Architect repository

Select applications Review and Monitor


Set objectives for further approve progress &
and priorities health
Steering investigation recommendations
Committee

Execute
transformation
projects
Project Mgmt
Office

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Catalog Inventory
 Catalogue and build inventory of content
 In Focal Point:

– Adjust metamodel of FP repository to match


properties captured for Apps in Organization
– Use web-based forms to add applications to
repository
– Import spreadsheets of application data into
Focal Point repository
 In System Architect:

– Adjust metamodel of EA repository to match


properties captured for Apps in Organization
– Use SA/XT web interface to add applications
to repository
– Import spreadsheets of application data into
EA repository; source from:
• Common file formats (text, Excel, CSV, XML,
Visio)
• Tivoli Directory Integrator (OS, Databases,
Networks)
• SAP/ERP (Database meta-data; Applications)
• Survey into FP

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2: Plan the scope and discover aspects of App Portfolio
In Focal Point:
 Explore views to
understand different
Portfolio Analyze impacts aspects of app portfolio;
Analyst and recommend
Scope initial
rationalization identify candidates for
iteration rationalization; Use
initiatives
workflow in FP to initiate
Enterprise app assessment
Architect Collect or in SA:
application  Use SA/XT reports to
inventory
identify business areas &
Provide Provide detailed apps with potential for
application application rationalization
Application information information  Update System
Business Owner / Architecture diagram with
Architect identified apps & send to
FP for further assessment

Select applications Review and Monitor


Set objectives for further approve progress &
and priorities health
Steering investigation recommendations
Committee

Execute
transformation
projects
Project Mgmt
Office

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Planning and Discovery
 Identify business and application areas where
reasonable returns on investment are likely to
be made within the timescales available

•Application Summary Counts – measure landscape complexity •Application Landscape Maintenance Costs

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Planning and Discovery
 Complete data surrounding applications in FocalPoint:
– Scores for Business Alignment, IT alignment, criticality, etc
– Complete financial aspects

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3: Assess applications
In Focal Point:
 Leverage capabilities to
set values and view
Portfolio Analyze impacts
and recommend scorecards.
Analyst Scope initial
rationalization  Use filters to hide & reveal
iteration
initiatives pertinent data for ease of
use (and security).
Enterprise  Use spreadsheet
Architect Collect capabilities to capture
application
inventory detailed financial data
over time.
Provide Provide detailed  Visualize the application
application application data in different ways to
Application information information better understand trade-
Business Owner / offs and establish optimal
Architect
scenarios

Select applications Review and Monitor


Set objectives for further approve progress &
and priorities investigation health
Steering recommendations
Committee

Execute
transformation
projects
Project Mgmt
Office

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Application Assessment
 Detailed Assessment Applications in Focal Point
– Assess degree of alignment of applications with criteria
– Identify candidates worthy of further investigation and Rationalization (i.e. further narrow scope)

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Application Assessment
Using the assessment criteria to rank the portfolio

NOT STRATEGIC STRATEGIC


High
SILVER GOLD
High Business Critical High Business Critical
High Business Alignment High Business Alignment BUSINESS
Low Business Risks & Issues Low Business Risks & Issues
CRITICAL
BUSINESS SCORE

Low IT Alignment or High IT Alignment


High IT Risks & Issues Low IT Risks & Issues

BLUE BRONZE
Low Business Critical or Low Business Critical or
Low Business Alignment or Low Business Alignment or
High Business Risks & Issues High Business Risks & Issues NOT
BUSINESS
Low IT Alignment or High IT Alignment
High IT Risks & Issues Low IT Risks & Issues
CRITICAL

Low High
IT SCORE

• REPRIORITIZE
• RETIRE
• REPLACE
• RESTRUCTURE
• RELOCATE
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4: Analyze impacts of application change

In Focal Point:
Portfolio Analyze impacts • Use scorecards to view
Analyst Scope initial and recommend additional application scores;
iteration rationalization Leverage visualizations to
initiatives
compare apps; recommend
app dispositions; create
Enterprise
Architect Collect rationalization proposals
application or in SA:
inventory • Explore business models;
Investigate impact of
Provide Provide
detailed application change (Explorer
application diagrams); Compare current
application
Application information
information & future project
Business Owner /
Architect architectures; Propose
rationalization projects

Select applications Review and Monitor


Set objectives for further approve progress &
and priorities investigation health
Steering recommendations
Committee

Execute
transformation
projects
Project Mgmt
Office

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Business Impact Assessment
 Investigate Rationalization Opportunities in System Architect
– Technologies required
– Databases
– Operating systems
– Processes subject to change
– Organisational changes
• Access & training
● Consider impact of change on wider
ecosystem

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In Focal Point:
5: Select projects for portfolio transformation  Capture high-level
business case, with
financial details, & other
criteria.
Portfolio Analyze impacts  Use investment analysis
Analyst Scope initial and recommend
iteration rationalization capabilities to understand
initiatives risk & probability of return
 Use pair-wise comparison
Enterprise
Architect Collect to compare & rank
application projects
inventory
 Use visualizations to
Provide Provide detailed assess, compare, & make
application application trade-offs to select
Application information information
projects.
Business Owner /
Architect  Use project roadmap
(Gantt chart); view impact
to constraints such as
Set objectives
Select applications budget
Review and Monitor
for further approve progress &
and priorities investigation health
Steering recommendations
Committee

Execute
transformation
projects
Project Mgmt
Office

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Portfolio Transformation

 Propose an architecture that represents a possible solution for the application or set of applications
– Propose decommission dates and visualize using compare capabilities
– Propose existing applications that can replace capability of retiring applications.
 Generate one or more “Opportunities” in FP based on the defined solutions
 Allow for “alternate groups” that can be compared to each other

Opportunity Option 1 Opportunity Option 2


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Portfolio Transformation
Supplement Opportunity Details

 Provide additional details on Opportunities to support assessment


– Business case and financials
– Scores related to risk and value

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Portfolio Transformation
Assess Opportunity Merits in FP
 Determine which are the best opportunities to pursue – based on business case, risk, value
 Compare and select between alternatives
 Compare new and those already in the queue

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Portfolio Transformation
Consider Opportunity Roadmap

● Understand impact against finances and other criteria


● Decide which Opportunities will proceed to the next stage

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6: Execute projects

In RTC:
Analyze impacts  Generate projects &
Portfolio
Analyst Scope initial and recommend work items in Rational
rationalization
iteration
initiatives Team Concert (RTC)
based on approved
Enterprise projects & business
Architect Collect needs in Focal Point
application
inventory  Briefly explore high-level
project planning in RTC
Provide Provide detailed  Extract data on
application application
Application information information execution status from
Business Owner / work items in RTC back
Architect
to projects and business
needs in Focal Point
Select applications Review and Monitor
Set objectives for further approve progress &
and priorities investigation recommendations health
Steering
Committee

Execute
transformation
projects
Project Mgmt
Office

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7: Manage the annual investment process

Portfolio
Analyst Reconcile investment
changes at the
portfolio level

Assess applications
and propose
Application investment changes
Business Owner /
Architect

Set the investment Set investment Approve investment Monitor


model targets decisions for portfolio progress &
Steering health
Committee

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8: Manage and monitor portfolios

Analyze impacts 1. Steering Committee


Portfolio
Analyst Scope initial and recommend reviews dashboards to
iteration rationalization monitor:
initiatives
1) Progress of APM
Enterprise initiatives
Architect Collect 2) Progress of
application
inventory transformation
projects
Provide Provide detailed 3) Overall portfolio
application application
Application information information performance and
Business Owner / health
Architect

Select applications Review and Monitor


Set objectives for further approve progress &
and priorities investigation recommendations health
Steering
Committee

Execute
transformation
projects
Project Mgmt
Office

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Portfolio Management & Monitoring
PMO creates Projects to implement opportunities

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Monitoring Progress
Dashboards, with financial trending

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Agenda

 Pain Points that Organizations are encountering with their IT portfolio


 What is Application Portfolio Management (APM)?
 Overview of the Rational solution for APM
 Solution Scenarios
 Summary

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Benefits Summary

● Understand application landscape opportunities and


risks
● Identify application gaps and needs
● Reduce costs and unnecessary investments
● Implement managed process for controlling portfolios
● Eliminate redundancy/duplication

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Closing thoughts

 Consider whether or not your organization has reached the tipping point in their application
portfolio
 Determine if you are ready now for a deeper-dive into APM
 Talk to us:

– victoria.bunyard@nl.ibm.com

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