In recent years, technology costs have come down considerably. Ask any
seasoned IT executive and they’ll tell you about the costs that they
used to have to incur with in-house data centers, high stora...
In the last blog we looked at the idea of organizational agility and the
way that it drives continuous and adaptive planning. We considered how
application portfolio management (APM) can allow technol...
As companies look to reduce cost and direct spend on applications that
provide value, enterprise architects (EAs) play a key role in partnering
with the business. EAs need to align applications to bus...
Over the last few years organizations have been pursuing the ideal of
organizational or enterprise agility. This is the idea that the business
needs to be able to adapt and adjust to shifting circumst...
Many ServiceNow customers try to integrate their Enterprise Architecture
tools with ServiceNow. However most find that the complexity of such an
integration increases dramatically as EA practices matu...
Application proliferation has a significant impact on an organization’s
bottom line. Redundant applications lead to wasted spend, introduce
risk, and lack of strategy alignment within an organization....
There are many similarities between ordinary architects (in the usual
sense: residential or commercial buildings) and painters. Both use their
imagination to design ideas and need a strong sense of ae...
In the last blog we looked at the inventory of digital assets as the
foundation of your application portfolio management (APM) work. Building
and maintaining a complete and accurate inventory is the r...
As we begin our exploration of application portfolio management (APM),
it’s logical to begin with the fundamentals. For digital assets, that
means developing an accurate and complete inventory of all ...
Application portfolio management or APM has become an important practice
for high performing organizations in recent years. As the name suggests,
it’s a strategic, portfolio driven approach to managin...
Enterprise Architecture Workspace adds another feature to enable
enterprise architects (EAs) with actionable insights in a consolidated
interface to make decisions quickly on the health of their appli...
Organizations are changing the way they view their IT departments. More
are seeking to run IT as a business. And that’s a good thing. After all,
technology can generate significant value for the busin...
Companies need to shift and pivot as strategies change. Applications are
added to the environment to support strategies but application sprawl
starts to happen. How do companies make decisions on whic...
Two exciting new features are included with the Application Portfolio
Management (APM) store release: “Enterprise Architecture Workspace” and
“Digital Integration Management”. APM provides visibility ...