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Adaptive IT Portfolio Manager
(ITPM) is a web-based application for the management and reuse of
enterprise software assets in the context of the business. It provides
an extensible platform for the management of any enterprise asset
and out-of-the-box support for the common IT assets. ITPM lets you
capture your IT portfolio to provide a view of the inter-dependencies
among projects, applications, interfaces, data, infrastructure and
your business processes, products and organization structure.
The performance improvements and benefits that can be
realized through ITPM include:
- Reduced costs due to minimizing application and data redundancy,
streamlining software component management and maintenance and rationalizing
hardware, software and network of infrastructure
- Increased efficiency and productivity: designers and developers
having timely access to the accurate, up-to-date information about
applications, components and data assets, where email alerts can
be triggered to specific users when updates take place and surveys
can be maintained on the IT artifacts to evaluate and monitor change
initiatives
- Better, more informed decision-making: complete IT architecture
design decision support enabled by the ability to perform impact
analysis on projects, processes, applications, and data
- Support for mergers and outsourcing, through the creation of future
planning views, allowing participants to evolve the vision of the
future organization whilst working on the current assessments and
decisions
- Planning future IT Architecture in line with business, by planning
ahead for hardware, infrastructure and application evolution. ITPM
also allows the IT changes to be synchronized with the business
changes and enables organizations to construct hypothetical future
views to investigate the impact of business change
- Assessing and managing business exposure to IT risk, allowing
the operational risk at the hardware level (e.g. a server going
out of service) to be reflected up at the business level (which
processes and which users would be affected)
- Tracing, rationalizing and protecting data and information flows.
ITPM’s powerful view mechanism allows aggregated visualization
of the lineage of data throughout an enterprise in either direction:
this ensures the integrity and quality of data.
By documenting, managing and understanding its IT portfolio,
an organization can achieve faster time-to-market, track changes to
its portfolio and determine the impact of such changes throughout
the business. This supports change initiatives to reduce costs, improve
efficiency, respond faster to opportunities and threats and to leverage
the value of finite resources and budgets by ensuring that programs
and projects align with the business.
"The ability to manage IT as a business may sound
idealistic to the many enterprises that can barely manage individual
projects, let alone entire programs or IT itself. But it is possible;
there are mature approaches to doing it, and even tools to support
such efforts."
Peter Herzum, Cutter Consortium |
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