Understanding the business importance of the technologies in terms of application usage is critical to maintaining a healthy and cost-efficient technology portfolio. Transparency about architectural dependencies between applications supports the reduction of complexity in the application landscape and ensures a safe and consistent transition of the application landscape as technology support changes. The implementation of technological standards limits risk by reducing non-permitted technology.The technology portfolio summarizes all information about IT capabilities, components, and virtual and physical servers. The applications in the application portfolio use multiple components and rely on servers for their deployment. Components support IT capabilities that are critical to the IT infrastructure. As a user with the Portfolio Manager user profile, you can add new applications to the repository and maintain the data on applications that are already in the system.

Describe your technology portfolio:

• Document the IT capabilities that your technology portfolio supports. Once the IT capabilities are in your repository, you can specify which components support which IT capabilities.
• Describe the components that are used by the applications your IT portfolio. Document which vendors supply the components.

  vendor

  A vendor is a supplier of components.

• Describe the virtual servers and physical servers that deploy the applications in the IT portfolio. Specify the locations of the physical servers.

  location

  A location is a geographic place that could be a country, city, building, or room, for example.