Application rationalisation
Identify candidates for retire, replace, retain or invest.
A spreadsheet can tell you which applications you own. It cannot tell you which business capability each one supports, what depends on it, or whether the one next to it does the same job. APM connects applications to the capabilities, infrastructure and integrations around them — which is usually where the consolidation opportunities you have been suspecting turn out to be.
Across applications, infrastructure and the integrations between them.
Maps that show how applications interact with infrastructure and the business.
Stop guessing what's redundant. See it.
The point of connecting applications to everything around them is that the obvious answer is often wrong. Two systems look duplicated until you see they support different business processes. An application looks expensive until you see how much depends on it.
Identify candidates for retire, replace, retain or invest.
Find underused capacity and consolidation opportunities.
Show how technology supports the business — at a glance.
What a system costs, and which renewals land next quarter.
IT financial managementWhat a change touches, before you approve it.
change impact assessmentRisk attached to the thing at risk, with owner and treatment.
technology risk managementServices linked to the infrastructure beneath them.
IT service managementThe same model read from the other end: what an alert actually affects.
organisational context for IT operationsThe standing questions, answerable without commissioning a report.
technology intelligence for CIOs