Application Portfolio Metrics Program:
App Owner & IT Admin Feedback
Stop guessing -- ensure you always know the status of your enterprise application portfolio.
Manage your application portfolio by having, at your fingertips, up to date and accurate application data on:
- Alignment of your applications with business needs
- Functional and technical quality
- Vendor satisfaction by application
Our detailed and targeted assessment enables IT’s application administrators and business superusers to answer key questions about individual apps so you get the dashboards you need to:
- rationalize the application portfolio
- improve business process integration
- optimize operations and application maintenance
- speed implementation of new apps projects
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Benefits of the Program
- Get a comprehensive view of how applications are performing from a business perspective, IT perspective, and a vendor perspective, to ensure strategic initiatives are based on facts, not intuition
- Improve alignment between IT and the business in terms of their view of each application’s criticality to the future strategy of the organization. This is essential to ensuring IT focuses on the most impactful applications in improvement efforts going forward.
- Quickly and easily add individual applications to the program and overall dashboards whenever you want
- Incorporate an application assessment into every project involving applications, whether strategy, selection, implementation, or optimization, do so with a structured rubric that puts the application within the context of your entire portfolio
- Ensure that quality-of-service for apps in the cloud matches service for on-premise apps, and assess quality of built applications against those that have been bought
Align Applications with Business Function and Eliminate Redundant Apps
Optimize alignment of applications within each business function process area using business user feedback to ensure the portfolio has the right mix of apps, by eliminating functional overlap and aligning strategic decisions with the application lifecycle of individual apps.
Diagnose Product Effectiveness to Identify Systemic Issues
Quickly and easily get feedback from application admins and business users to assess technical and functional quality, business process integration, and operational issues, both for individual apps and across multiple applications within the program, to drive people, process and technology improvement efforts
Capture skills gaps, and training shortcomings on both the IT and user side of the app to ensure that the skills exist to maintain each application for the foreseeable future
Identify Vendor Shortcomings to Improve Vendor Management and Purchasing Decisions
Identify IT and user issues with vendor support, implementation and setup and general vendor partnership to ensure future relationship decisions are informed by all the right information.
Drill Down from Systemic Issues to Individual Apps to Target Improvement Efforts
Evaluate criticality and overall effectiveness of application across multiple categories and prioritize based on high impact problem areas to ensure maximum impact of future application-based projects.
