Application portfolios can be difficult to manage and expensive to maintain: You need to protect your investment but you also need to optimize your portfolio and deliver greater business value
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Quantify the opportunity to improve your environment |
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Establish and execute specific optimization strategies |
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Keep your application portfolio aligned to your business strategy |
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The first step in CSC’s APM framework is Strategy Alignment, where we measure your environment along three dimensions-goal alignment, performance optimization, service mix - and quantify opportunities for improvement... more on APM Strategy Alignment |
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Corporate restructuring, legacy obsolescence and a continuous influx of new technologies results in a complex environment that can consume up to 80% of your budget just keeping the lights on.
Our approach to Application Portfolio Management (APM) replaces technology-based decisions with a business-led portfolio strategy. It enables you to explicitly link your applications to the value they deliver, ensuring that your investment is delivering results, creating efficiencies, and driving innovation.
Manageable steps
APM is a managed service that starts with Strategy Alignment and then helps you make the changes that will move you up the application portfolio management maturity curve.
It breaks your journey down into manageable stages, each of which gets you measurably closer to your ultimate destination. The service consists of four service elements:
- Strategy Alignment
- Portfolio Roadmap and Governance
- Portfolio Identification
- Portfolio State Review
Our APM approach is distinctive
Realistic: We recognize that moving up the maturity curve is not a trivial task: our approach helps you to deliver value at each step. It allows you to embed application portfolio governance into your organization, ensuring that your application investments are aligned with your business goals not just in-year, but for the long term.
Rapid: We recognize that you need to deliver results quickly: our approach creates a top-level application portfolio strategy within mere weeks.
Multi-dimensional: We recognize that you need to address a range of applications portfolio issues: our approach allows you to demonstrate alignment with business goals as well as improve application performance and minimize management costs.
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