Simplify IT and make room for innovation and new business opportunities

CIOs and IT Executives are being asked to “do more with less”. With a complex and poorly understood application portfolio at hand a large percentage of IT funds are consumed, it leaves these CIOs and IT Executives challenged to find the funds needed for creating real value in form of innovation and enabling new business opportunities. Organizations spend too much (up to 90%) of funds on maintaining and operating an expanding application portfolio.

Transformation of an existing application portfolio can reduce overall costs of ownership and, at the same time, directly align applications with business strategy—a win-win. In the light of this, IBM Rational’s® integrated solution for Application Portfolio Management (APM) addresses these challenges and more. It helps organizations to effectively govern and analyze the application portfolio and make objective and transparent decisions around these assets, including for example; terminating, investing, consolidating, modernizing, outsource, move to cloud, or include in your mobile or compliance strategy.

• Enable a shift in application investments towards business innovation by reducing cost of maintenance and operations and improving business agility.
• Better align application investment decisions with organizational strategies and priorities through an effective dialog between business and IT.
• Improve efficiency in the governance of application portfolio rationalization efforts, leading to optimized allocation of capital and resources with reduced time to decisions.
• Establish strategic plans for the Cloud, Mobile, Outsourcing, and Compliance.
• Enable realization of application decisions through road mapping and integration with cross-platform ALM.
• Faster time to value by enabling incremental adoption and by providing an out-of the-box APM information model and ease of customization.

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  Rational Focal Point

  Objectively evaluate investment scenarios to align product, project, and application portfolio decisions with the overall business value.

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  Rational System Architect

  Visualize, analyze, and communicate your enterprise architecture and business process analysis.

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  Rational Asset Analyzer

  Comprehensive mainframe application discovery and analysis tool designed for business analysts and developers.

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