Application portfolio optimization and rationalization for simplified IT and room to drive innovation and value.
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.
Featured application portfolio management products
Rational Focal Point
Objectively evaluate investment scenarios to align product, project, and application portfolio decisions with the overall business value.
Rational System Architect
Visualize, analyze, and communicate your enterprise architecture and business process analysis.
Rational Asset Analyzer
Comprehensive mainframe application discovery and analysis tool designed for business analysts and developers.
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Streamline your application portfolio to help cut costs, fund innovation and reduce risk
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Webcasts
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What Enterprise Modernization means to your agency
Agencies of the US government are under a mandate to modernize, rationalize, simplify and reduce redundancy in their enterprise computing environments. This means that agencies must upgrade their data systems and their enterprise software while reducing costs. In many cases this means combining data centers, acquiring state-of-the-art equipment, software and best practices with the long term goal of reducing the cost of government IT while making it more effective, responsive and efficient.
Podcasts
Reduce errors with continuous delivery
Over 30% of all defects in production applications are caused by poor configuration of hardware, middleware or software. Learn how IBM solutions such as Rational Team Concert and IBM SmartCloud Provisioning can help with continuous delivery of complex applications to the cloud. Steve Weaver and Daniel Berg, speakers.
Save money and trade your IBM i Green Screen development tools for modern IDE's
Become more productive and save development dollars with our new Application Development Toolset trade up program and the new Application Management Toolset. Learn what you need to know to get your modern tools NOW. Bill Smith, speaker.
Sandboxes are not just for kids!
Have you ever wondered how you can try IBM Rational products anytime, anyplace and anywhere at no cost? It's easy. Through hands-on participation, guided walk-thru and the use of live, running System z and Power Systems (IBM i, AIX, Linux) development scenarios and solutions, our Enterprise Modernization Sandboxes help you experience and evaluate IBM® Enterprise Modernization solutions for the System z™ and Power Systems™ platforms. Susan Yoskin, speaker.
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