Chapter 11: Application Portfolio Management
1. The CIO is concerned about the ever increasing cost of maintaining the inventory of IT applications in the organization. He has asked you to meet to discuss why this proliferation of applications is occurring?
One of the main causes of the ever-growing costs of upholding different technologies, is simply that they are not being disposed when they are stop being relevant. A number of these applications provide obsolete functionality or are redundant when compared to more modern systems. The amount of IT tools is continually growing and none or significantly few are being discarded. While on the other hand, the allocated budget remains constant. The causes for not discarding obsolete applications are not the same for all companies. Some companies have personnel that …show more content…
Since, the perception of value varies among companies, it is essential to relate the APM proposal a type of value that is significant to an organization. One of the principal issues in the early stages of APM is that business managers lack accountability for the applications. By defining governance we can assess a number of factors that determine the direction and ownership of decision making.
2) Inventory Management: Organizations need an unambiguous definition for application, in order to determine what tools should conform the application portfolio. Secondly, requirements for what needs to be recorded should be established. IT STRATEGY: Issues and Practices explains that applications should be classified using the following criteria: "General application information, Application categorization, technical condition, business value, and support cost." Accordingly, the richer the information gathered, the greater the possible benefits will tend to
1. The CIO is concerned about the ever increasing cost of maintaining the inventory of IT applications in the organization. He has asked you to meet to discuss why this proliferation of applications is occurring?
One of the main causes of the ever-growing costs of upholding different technologies, is simply that they are not being disposed when they are stop being relevant. A number of these applications provide obsolete functionality or are redundant when compared to more modern systems. The amount of IT tools is continually growing and none or significantly few are being discarded. While on the other hand, the allocated budget remains constant. The causes for not discarding obsolete applications are not the same for all companies. Some companies have personnel that …show more content…
Since, the perception of value varies among companies, it is essential to relate the APM proposal a type of value that is significant to an organization. One of the principal issues in the early stages of APM is that business managers lack accountability for the applications. By defining governance we can assess a number of factors that determine the direction and ownership of decision making.
2) Inventory Management: Organizations need an unambiguous definition for application, in order to determine what tools should conform the application portfolio. Secondly, requirements for what needs to be recorded should be established. IT STRATEGY: Issues and Practices explains that applications should be classified using the following criteria: "General application information, Application categorization, technical condition, business value, and support cost." Accordingly, the richer the information gathered, the greater the possible benefits will tend to