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 view is a master list of all applications and their attributes and relationships to other aspects of the IT architecture. You can slice and dice the data as is needed for your analysis. Analyze your application portfolio based on relevant KPI metrics for quick analysis. For example:

Understand who is a business owner or IT owner of the applications. Ensure that the relevant roles are visible as columns in the data workbench and filter the applications for specific persons or organizations.

Understand which applications are currently active. Select Active in the Object State filter field to show only the applications that are active.

Understand which applications support a specific business capability. Select a business capability in the Business Capabilities filter field to show only the applications supporting that business capability.

Understand which applications are owned by a specific organization. Select an organization in the Business Owner filter field to show only applications owned by the organization.

Understand which applications are assigned to a specific application portfolio. Select an application group in the Application Group filter field to show the applications assigned to the application group.