Applications Research Center
Our actionable, step-by-step blueprints empower you to achieve measurable results.
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Reimagine Application Management to Achieve IT Excellence
How you manage, deliver, and align applications with your organization's strategy is key to fostering innovation and staying competitive. Transforming your applications is not just about adopting new technology – it's about maximizing their value. Our Applications Research Center focuses on three critical areas: Applications Strategy, Applications Management, and Applications Delivery – each essential for advancing organizational success and achieving measurable results.
Application Strategy
- Enterprise Strategy
- Department Strategy
- Product Management Strategy
Explore the latest research to build your department strategy, product management strategy, or enterprise strategy.
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Application Management
- Agile/DevOps & Release Management
- Requirements, Process Management & Quality Assurance
- Selection & Implementation
Explore featured research to optimize your Agile/DevOps and release management, requirements, process management, quality assurance, and application selection and implementation.
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Application Delivery
- Portfolio Management
- Optimization & Operations
Explore top-rated research to improve portfolio management or optimization and operations processes.
Learn MoreDrivers
to evolve your enterprise applications
Digital Transformation
The demand to harness emerging technologies to maintain a competitive edge.
User-Centricity
The need to elevate user experience and exceed user expectations.
Data-Driven Decision-Making
The increasing reliance on analytics to gain insights that inform strategies and enhance operational effectiveness.
Outcomes
of optimizing your enterprise applications
Increased Competitiveness
Leveraging improved applications empowers organizations to better position themselves in the market by responding to user needs and market trends.
Risk Mitigation
Streamlining applications improves compliance and security measures, reducing the risk of data breaches and ensuring adherence to regulatory standards.
Organizational Agility & Growth
Building dynamic platforms enables organizations to adapt and innovate, helping them thrive in changing environments and positioning them for sustained growth.
Application Strategy
Application Department Strategy
Manage software applications within a specific department.
Delivering value starts with embracing what your department can do.
Build an Application Department StrategyIt’s "solution delivery," not "software development."
Evolve Your Software Development Lifecycle Into a Solution Delivery LifecycleDrive down your delivery time by eliminating development inefficiencies and bottlenecks while maintaining high quality.
Improve Application Development ThroughputBuild an Application Department Strategy
Learn how to build an application department strategy:
- Determine your application department's values, principles, and delivery orientation.
- Articulate your goals, objectives, and priorities for the department.
- Communicate your overall department strategy.
Application Throughput
Transform your software development lifecycle into a solution delivery lifecycle and learn how to:
- Explain the difference between the software development lifecycle and the full solution delivery lifecycle.
- Diagnose a current software development lifecycle.
- Identify areas of needed improvement.
Application Strategy
Product Management Strategy
Launch software applications to meet market and business goals.
Align your organization on the practices to deliver what matters most.
Make the Case for Product DeliveryDeliver value at the scale of your organization through defining enterprise product families.
Deliver Digital Products at ScaleBuild a product vision your organization can take from strategy through execution.
Deliver on Your Digital Product VisionStrengthen the product owner role in your organization by focusing on core capabilities and proper alignment.
Mature and Scale Product OwnershipMake Your Digital Product Vision More Than Just a Dream
Explore best practices for aligning your vision with tactics and learn how to:
- Identify the key elements of an effective digital product vision.
- Define the approach to creating an effective backlog to achieve your vision.
- Communicate your vision and strategy through compelling, relevant roadmaps.
Use Scaled Product Management to Ensure Enterprise Success
Align product delivery with enterprise goals using product families.
Balanced Value Calculator
Align your value drivers with enterprise goals, define your scoring method, and integrate your balanced value calculation into intake processes.
Mature and Scale Product Ownership Proficiency Assessment
Assess your organization’s strengths and weaknesses for a product culture using the heat map to identify key areas:
- Culture: Collaboration, Embracing Change, Empowerment
- Metrics: Team Performance, Outcome-Based KPIs, Decision-Making
- Governance: Key Milestones, Risk-Based Governance, Integrated Enforcement
Application Strategy
Product Lifecycle Management Research Center
Product management aligns your offerings with enterprise strategy, delivering the right value to the right consumers at the right time.
Becoming product-centric is complex; focus on product lifecycle, delivery, and application portfolio management.
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Application Strategy
Enterprise Application Strategy
Develop software applications across the entire organization.
Align business and IT to successfully deliver on your ERP initiative
Build an ERP Strategy and RoadmapUnlock the potential of your ERP portfolio by choosing the right implementation partner.
Select an ERP Implementation PartnerSelecting a best-fit solution requires balancing needs, cost, and vendor capability.
Select an Enterprise ApplicationYour implementation doesn’t start with technology, but with an effective plan that the team can align on.
Build Your Enterprise Application Implementation PlaybookEnterprise Applications Selection and Implementation
Enroll in the Enterprise Applications Selection and Implementation course to explore the requirements, stages, and steps for successfully implementing large-scale business projects.
Governance Dashboard Template
Identify your key requirements, accomplishments, risks, and more.
Enterprise Software Implementation Checklist
Self-evaluate your readiness for each phase of a software implementation to assess progress as well as organizational readiness.
Governance Model Charter Template
The purpose of this template is to assist in the creation of your enterprise software project governance charter. Use this charter to document:
- Governance committee functions.
- Committee roles and responsibilities.
- Key success metrics.
Application Strategy
Enterprise Applications Research Center
A robust, comprehensive enterprise application strategy is essential for effective decision-making.
Your step-by-step guide to develop a cohesive enterprise application strategy that accelerates business outcomes.
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Application Management
Agile/DevOps and Release Management
Streamline software development through iterative processes.
Use your releases to drive business value and enhance the benefits delivered by your move to Agile.
Define a Release Management Process to Deliver Lasting ValueScaling your practices begins with picking the right model.
Empower Solution Delivery With the Right CoP, CoE, and C4E ModelDefine a Release Management Process to Deliver Lasting Value
This research will help you define the process, standards, and criteria to make this possible and enhance the value of your releases.
Top Robotic Process Automation - Enterprise (RPA) Software
RPA is a low-code implementation that follows prescribed rules to carry out repetitive and well-defined business processes.
Agile/DevOps Research Center
Tools and advice you need to be successful with Agile.
Application Management
Survey and Assessment
Streamline software development through iterative processes.
Use our Common Agile Challenges Survey to identify your organization's Agile pain points.
Agile Challenges Survey in Develop Your Agile Approach for a Successful TransformationAssess your Agile and business analysis capabilities to define your target state, identify gaps, set improvement goals, and create a roadmap for advancing your practice.
Manage Requirements in an Agile Environment – Agile Requirements Maturity AssessmentBeing Agile isn’t about processes, it’s about people.
Perform an Agile Skills Assessment
Application Management
Requirements, Process Management, and Quality Assurance
Define, manage, and ensure the quality of processes and software requirements.
Embrace business analysis at the speed and scale of your organization.
Scale Up Your Requirements Management PracticesAs you scale your business automations, focus on what matters most.
Develop Your Value-First Business Process Automation StrategyOptimize and automate your business processes with a user-centric approach.
Build a Winning Business Process Automation PlaybookPutting the strategic and tactical puzzle together.
Make the Case for Enterprise Business AnalysisStart Value Delivery With the Right Requirements
Define, plan, communicate, and negotiate requirements with stakeholders while avoiding common pitfalls.
We will explore:
- The value of accurate requirements.
- Best practices and challenges in requirements analysis.
- Blueprints for enhancing your requirements practices.
Application Development Quality
Understand the three-phase methodology for optimizing your Software Quality Assurance process using a full lifecycle approach.
How AI Is Used in Requirements Management
An interview with thought leaders from Modern Requirements, featured in the AI Marketplace series.
Interview: How AI Is Used in Requirements ManagementRequirements Gathering
In this course, your will uncover the four-phase methodology for building a stronger approach to business requirements gathering.
Application Management
Application Management
Deploy the right software applications to meet business needs.
Select your applications better, faster, and cheaper.
The Rapid Application Selection FrameworkExtend IT, automation, and digital capabilities to the business with the right tools, good governance, and trusted organizational relationships.
Satisfy Digital End Users With Low- and No-CodeFocus on deep satisfaction and don’t marry your vendors.
Select Software With the Right Satisfaction Drivers in MindBegin to understand what is required to embrace open-source software in your organization.
Take the First Steps to Embrace Open-Source SoftwareEmbrace Business-Managed Applications
In this webinar you will learn how to:
- Overcome the misinterpretations and misunderstandings of business-managed applications.
- Build a scalable governance and management model that uses collaboration as its foundation.
- Address the organizational and cultural changes that come with this new situation.
Low-Code Business Process Management - Enterprise Software
A low-code business process management (BPM) platform enables API-level process automation with minimal coding or technical knowledge.
Drive Software Satisfaction With the Rapid Application Selection Framework
Unlock the secret to satisfied business stakeholders by using the Rapid Application Selection Framework to drive repeatable, high-quality selection decisions.
Vendor Evaluation Scorecard
Use this template to score, rank and compare your shortlist of vendors based on the level of fit with your requirements and use case criteria.
Application Delivery
Application Portfolio Management
Manage and evaluate a collection of software applications.
Continuously modernize – today’s modern application is tomorrow’s shelfware.
Modernize Your ApplicationsEstablish an evergreen application portfolio management (APM) program to deliver the best possible return on investment.
Rationalize Your Application PortfolioApplication Portfolio Assessment: End User Feedback
Develop data-driven insights to help you decide which applications to retire, upgrade, retrain on, or maintain to meet the demands of the business. Completing the diagnostic will help you:
- Assess the health of your application portfolio.
- Conduct a deep dive using individual application scorecards.
- Gain targeted department feedback.
Application Portfolio Management
This course will provide insights into:
- Building your application inventory.
- Learning how to apply the 5 lenses methodology to rationalize your application portfolio.
- Using Info-Tech’s tools to define priorities.
- Determining the roadmap and the cadence.
Application Delivery
Application Portfolio Management Research Center
Application rationalization and modernization position you as a trusted partner.
Transform your applications into a cohesive service catalog aligned to your business capabilities by following our 3...
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Application Delivery
Enterprise Application Optimization and Operations
Enhance and maintain software applications to improve performance and efficiency.
In today’s connected world, continuous optimization of enterprise applications to realize your digital strategy is key.
Get the Most Out of Your SAPContinuous optimization of enterprise applications to realize your digital strategy is critical.
Get the Most Out of Your HRMSSpeed up the process to build your business case and select your CRM solution.
Customer Relationship Management Platform Selection GuideThe optimization of enterprise applications to realize your digital strategy is crucial.
Get the Most Out of Your ERPGet the Most out of Your ERP: Practice Continuous Optimization
In this webinar you will learn:
- How ERP is integral to an organization.
- The framework for repeatable processes for optimization efforts.
- How to demonstrate the need for a holistic view of your ERP.
Customer Relationship Management - Enterprise (CRM) Software
Customer relationship management (CRM) software enables an organization to manage the complete customer lifecycle and capture, integrate, and analyze data across all customer touchpoints.
How AI Is Used as an Automated Assistant for CRM
In this thought leader interview, we’ll discuss use cases that are driving AI.
Application Delivery
Enterprise Applications Lifecycle Advisory Services Research Center
Build a foundational enterprise application strategy to make better-informed decisions.
Enterprise applications bridge business and IT, driving success in the digital age. Leverage Info-Tech’s enterprise ...
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