ENTERPRISE APPLICATION PORTFOLIO

Introduction
The Enterprise Portfolio Assessment is part of the Assessment Services. It provides quickly insight in major characteristics of an entire software application portfolio.

Enterprise Portfolio Assessment is used when the business management needs to understand major financial and technical characteristics of the application and it is needed for strategic ICT investment decision-making. Like a stock financial portfolio it represents of each application major metrics such as application functional size (Function Points), environment parameters, development costs (replacement value), yearly maintenance costs, and estimated life time.

Keywords: limited amount of effort, financial metrics issues, simple and clear message.

The Enterprise Portfolio Assessment audience is general, financial and ICT executives.

Purpose of the service
The main purpose of the Enterprise Portfolio Assessment is to support ICT strategic decision-making. With ICT portfolio management, it becomes possible to make strategic ICT investment decisions based on objective financial data concerning the entire enterprise application portfolio.

Required input

Process overview

Output

- Applications source code
- Organization Diagram

- Application owners interviews

- Intake of source code

- Inventory of source code and documentation

- Source Code Parsing

- Analyze Results

- Publish Results

- Application portfolio overview:
	Function Point sizes
	Environments used
	Replacement Values
	Projected Maintenance costs
	Life times
	Total Costs of Ownership

Characteristics

Advantages

- Identification of full software portfolio

- Concrete, strategic information

- Executive level

- Non-technical results

- Short processing time

- High level understanding of ICT portfolio

- Financial Metrics

- Objective

- Cost effective

- Based on automated, repeatable process

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SOLUTIONS & SERVICES

ENTERPRISE APPLICATION PORTFOLIO