Case Study : Bennet                    

Expansion based on Application Portfolio Management.

Bennet is one of the largest food retailers in Northern Italy, operating thirty-seven stores and employs more than 5700 employees. The company's strategy is to guarantee top quality products offered at competitive prices. The company was founded in 1964 and plans to open fifteen new stores in Italy over the next four years.

IT systems are key to enabling Bennet to stay competitive. Bennet chose the Micro Focus Application Portfolio Management (APM) solution as the foundation for the company’s Application Portfolio Management strategy with the primary goal of aligning IT initiatives with overall corporate business needs. 

Bennet key priorities include the planning and control of applications maintenance and development costs, the improvement of software development performance and quality, and the optimization of end user service levels. In planning to use Micro Focus APM, the company also targeted a very rapid ROI.

Micro Focus APM supports growing companies like Bennet by providing IT 
staff with consistent, measurable data about the entire enterprise application portfolio, enabling them to modify systems quickly to meet expanding business requirements. 

In the case of Bennet, the ongoing development of a robust enterprise knowledge base is fundamental to the company’s Application Portfolio Management strategy, which is itself key to the company's successful business expansion.

“We chose [Micro Focus APM] technology to meet our needs for an IT service infrastructure tied tightly to our overall corporate goals” ... “We also needed a solution that would help support our aggressive expansion over the next few years.”

Adriano Visconti, IT Director 
Bennet