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 business capabilities, retire, renew, or replace applications in the portfolio and mitigate risk.
EAs can help reduce cost by reducing application proliferation and redundancies with multiple applications that support the same business capabilities. By having a disposition plan for applications, EAs can help mitigate risk for those applications nearing end of life.
With the Q4 2023 store release of ServiceNow Application Portfolio Management, EAs are able to easily rationalize the application portfolio from the Enterprise Architecture Workspace. With an easy to read bubble chart, EAs can plan the lifecycle of an application. Enhanced and customizable dashboards provide at a glance views of applications to help make decisions.
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Application Rationalization in Enterprise Architecture Workspace
Enterprise Architects can now access full Application Rationalization from within the EA Workspace to reduce application costs and manage work associated with rationalization in an intuitive, instructive, and actionable way.
- Quickly visualize application landscape with suggested opportunities for rationalization with the color of bubble representing the disposition plan
- View all information on a single page accessible from the lefthand menu in a list view or bubble chart
- Customize bubble chart by selecting indicator scores on the X&Y axes and for the size of the bubble
- View individual indicator scores leading to an application overall score
- Access app rationalization insights widget on the EA Workspace dashboard
Enterprise Architecture Workspace Enhancements
Improved usability to save time and increase efficiency by providing quick navigation and configuration options.
- Left hand menu navigation options to quickly access Dashboard, Application Rationalization, Business Portfolio and Setup
- Configure the workspace for specific needs by hiding or showing sections such as Insights, Needs Attention, Portfolio Overview and Health
- Ability to open Business Application in Legacy UI view from the workspace
- Unified Map now opens directly in the EA Workspace rather than in the CMDB workspace
- Retired business apps will now be excluded from the home page, dashboards show active applications only
For more information, review the release notes, then schedule a meeting and demo with your account team, or contact us here.
To learn more about these features, check out the Application Portfolio Management blog.
For more information on Application Portfolio Management, visit the product page.
