The Micro Focus Application Portfolio Management (APM) Solution automatically discovers, analyzes and delivers a detailed profile of technical and business intelligence about the IT applications sitting at the heart of business processes that drive the corporation. Our APM intelligence delivers different application management benefits to different individuals - so effectively benefits provided by the Micro Focus APM Solution will vary by your role in the organization.
CIO / Executive
The CIO perspective on current business demands and challenges may include the following:
Increasing shareholder value
Demonstrating regulatory compliance
Proving appropriate coverage
Showing alignment with the business
Strengthening IT governance
Understanding cost vs value
Providing new 'products' in a timely fashion
Reducing total cost of ownership and improving productivity
The Micro Focus APM Solution can help to alleviate these business issues by delivering:
Full understanding of application cost and value at multiple levels,
correlated with the business
Automatic proof of compliance
Quality and productivity metrics to manage by
Ability to translate business change into technical overhead
Reduced maintenance costs by up to 30%
Identification of appropriate staffing levels and just-in-time resourcing needs
Faster, more agile and more informed application teams with
less wastage
IT Director / Architect
There are business challenges that directly impact both the operational management and strategic vision of IT. Such objectives can include:
Translating business requirements into technical Impact
Operating at the enterprise level with transparency
Managing and communicate the cost of ownership
Quickly and concisely reviewing the application portfolio and initiating appropriate action
Implementing appropriate sourcing strategies
Understanding current software and resource capabilities
Clearly see the technical environmental impact of key change projects
In direct response to these business requirements, the Micro Focus APM Solution can provide the following benefits:
Up to 30% improvement in resource productivity through more accurate information
A high level view of the enterprise and drill-down capability
Determining a cost/value measurement of all application areas
Ability to prioritize budget allocation
Ability to manage internal and outsourced teams with objective metrics
Data to make application retire/rewrite/replace and sourcing decisions
Automatic documentation of software/resource environment
Scenarios of how the IT landscape will be impacted by planned changes
Technical
At the Technical level of an organization, priority will lie in the efficient everyday implementation and running of applications. Individuals within these roles will be looking to:
Implement based on clear technical project direction
Produce complete, accurate application documentation
Produce an audit trail of change and impact
Assemble metrics of QA attainment, complexity, time-to-market, defect ratios, and other decision metrics
The Micro Focus APM Solution can help to achieve this throughout the enterprise by supporting:
Definitive input into project planning
Full documentation of applications with drill-down capability to source code
Complete impact analysis of all proposed changes
Automatic creation of comprehensive audit trails
Automatic metrics for complexity, size/volume, maintainability and trend analysis
Technical function points and other decision metrics
