Application Portfolio Management

The Micro Focus Application Portfolio Management (APM) solution automatically discovers, analyzes and delivers a detailed profile of technical and business intelligence about the hundreds of IT applications sitting at the heart of business processes that drive the corporation. This APM intelligence delivers different application management benefits to different individuals.

The Technology

We take a ‘top-down’ and a ‘bottom-up’ approach to application portfolio management, providing an enterprise-wide view and revealing a single and dynamic source of truth about your application assets.

Top-down: Decision-support modules add intelligence to the analysis and provide the display and reporting functions that supply the enterprise view to support key application governance decisions.

Bottom-up: Detailed analysis functions automatically discover and provide a full analysis of the source code, data structures and related key IT information used in the portfolio across the enterprise, without touching the live production systems. This information is stored in the Application Knowledge Platform and augmented with data from other tools. 

The Micro Focus Application Knowledge Platform

The Micro Focus APM (Application Portfolio Management) solution builds a single Application Knowledge Platform containing detailed information about all the applications from across the enterprise. From this central repository of the entire IT landscape, precise and up-to-the-minute information can be reported however the organization needs it.

Information is gleaned from the following sources as needed:

• Application Source Code (mainframe, system I and distributed)
• Internal Data Sources (e.g. Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, IMS)
• Enterprise Defect Tracking (Help Desk) Systems
• Change and Configuration Management Systems (e.g. Endevor, Changeman)
• User Survey Sources and Contract SLA Information
• Performance Management Systems
• Accounting Systems

Where additional "enterprise information" is required, our Business Consultants can work with you to determine how to access particular corners of your organization using a standard API.

Decision Support Decision Support

The information presented depends on the intended recipient, and the issue they are trying to tackle. Therefore the reporting is fully customizable by desktop such that the user only sees what they need to see but with enough supporting information to explain the report. So whether your CIO is monitoring the performance of your SI outsource contracts, or your IT Director is looking at defect and quality trends of a certain application area, the breadth of information and the flexibility of the reporting makes this task possible, accurate and immediate.