Maximize the Value of Your Current Application Assets
Focus Your Resources on Efforts with Greater Future Benefits
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Provide support for future state growth.
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Determine the degree and quality of automation for current business Processes.
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Improve application reliability, availability, scalability, and performance.
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Reduce application costs.
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Enhance business capabilities.
Problems
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Aging technology base.
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Skyrocketing maintenance budget.
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Growing need for security.
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Scarcity of skills needed to support outdated technologies in place.
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Escalating cost of data centers.
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Enormity of application portfolio.
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Continuous reduction of IT budget.
Challenges
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Deciding where to start.
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Validating current portfolio to secure adequate IT budget.
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Examining “health” of existing application portfolio.
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Identifying Process redundancies.
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Identifying Data redundancies.
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Measuring the value of each current application.
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Understanding the extent and result of on-going “redundancy creep.”
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Align applications with the business units and goals they support.
Answers
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Optimize the number of applications within your application portfolio.
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Ensure Processes and Data are automated in applications as few times as possible—ideally only once!
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Align applications with the business and goals they support
