The business question What is our application portfolio? provides the most comprehensive analysis of the applications in your IT and and ensures a single source of truth about your application portfolio. A key task in application portfolio management is to understand the health of the application portfolio, where redundancies exist in applications and their technologies, how those applications impact the business capabilities, and which applications can be retired. The analytics for this business question ensure transparency about the application portfolio and provides immediate up-to-date insights for decision-making.

The business question What is our technical debt? focuses on the dependencies of the applications in the application portfolio and highlights their dependencies on technical component based on lifecycle data. You can analyze lifecycle conflicts according to different time scales, thus reducing the risk and technical debt that accompany end-of-life technologies. This business question supports better planning and transparency in the IT so that you can act on your technical debt before an application or component goes out of service.

The business question Who are our vendors? provides an overview of your vendors and how they impact the components they provide as well as the indirect impact to the applications that use them and the business capabilities supported by those applications. The information helps you to understand which vendors support mission-critical business capabilities, which vendors support a large number of applications, and which vendors support IT capabilities or are associated with components that are no longer maintained. This enables you to understand potential risks to the technology architecture and develop a vendor strategy to decrease risk to your company's IT infrastructure.

The What are our architectural dependencies? business question enables you to quickly understand the dependencies that applications have to other applications based on their information flows. The visualization helps you to understand connected applications and their data exchange. By knowing the information dependencies, you can reduce complexity and mitigate risk when transitioning the application landscape.

The business question Which business process areas require the most IT support? provides a snapshot of the as-is application landscape organized according to the business processes they support. This information helps you to understand where application-dense business processes exist and whether redundant applications can be rationalized. The analytics also highlight where application support is missing for critical business processes so that potential risks in IT support are identified early. Evaluation of applications based on KPIs ensure transparency and that you understand dependencies between the business and IT.