Application Portfolio Management

The average global company can save between 20% and 30% of its IT budget by retiring redundant applications. For EAs and CIOs seeking efficiency and agility APM offers a fast path to value. At Avolution, we empower teams to streamline portfolios, cut costs, and make smarter technology decisions.

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Application Portfolio Management Tools for Enterprise Architects

Strong Application Portfolio Management empowers EAs to cut costs, reduce risk, and drive business value. For successful APM, EA’s need:

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    Centralized EA Repository

    Create a single source of truth that wider teams can access, contribute to and leverage.

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    Increased Standardization

    Communicate effectively to both IT and the wider business, also linking the IT portfolio to business value.

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    Heightened Compliance

    Reduce complexity to help mitigate security risk and increase compliance.

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Remove Silos & Centralize Data in an Application Inventory

  • Start quickly by round-tripping data with Excel or Google Sheets. No new tools or training needed.
  • Keep application details (vendors, versions, lifecycles, etc.) consistently up to date. With ServiceNow or SharePoint integrations — configure them for self-service or full automation.
  • Powerful Integrations. Integrate your EA with technical and business data. Explore Integrations.

Supporting Enterprises with leading Application Portfolio Management Software

  • Enterprise-Wide View of APM. Gain an enterprise-wide view of your application portfolio to uncover risks, cut costs, and drive smarter decisions.

 

  • Set up diagnostics. Track the health of the application portfolio against your chosen success metrics (cost, reliability, risks).
  • Insight Driven Recommendations. Prebuilt analysis with insight-driven recommendations accelerate decisions and highlight your best next steps.

 

  • Stay ahead of Shadow IT. Assume unofficial apps exist within departments and bringing them into view.

See ABACUS in Action:

  • 50%

    Faster control of your application landscape using ABACUS

  • 26%

    Increased pace of strategic & transformation initiatives

    *Based on a recent Business Value Survey performed on over 70 EA professionals using ABACUS

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  • 94%

    Report improvements in visibility or control over IT assets

Turning Complexity into Clarity

Empowering both Enterprises & Architects for over 20 years

 

Application Portfolio Management Interactive Dashboard

Consolidate cost and lifecycle data, score applications objectively, and map dependencies to simplify and justify change.

  • One Dashboard for All Application Costs. ABACUS brings together spend, licenses, and hosting in a single, clear view. No more scattered data or surprises.
  • Identify Aging Applications Before They Fail. Lifecycle and vendor support data flag obsolete systems, reducing risk and unexpected costs.

“Enterprises have up to 1000 cloud apps, but CIOs think it’s just 30-40”

Download our essential checklist for successful Application Rationalization and Transformation – complete with recommended data visualizations to make your reporting clear, insightful, and impactful.

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Quickly identify, assess, and optimize your applications with clear insights and connected data.

  • Prioritize with Data-Driven Scores. TIME, business fit, and technical fit heatmaps highlight which applications deserve attention first.
  • See How Everything Connects. Graph views reveal application dependencies and process impacts, making rationalization decisions easy to justify.
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“ABACUS provides a single source of truth. This powerful feature helps to link everything together, saving time and maintenance especially when constructing visualizations and dashboards.”

– Enterprise Architecture Business Analyst, CERN

“In the past, it would have taken us several days, multiple spreadsheets, and a lot of email traffic to pull together the content we needed. With ABACUS it takes a few minutes with a catalogue and query”

– Technical Architect, Man Group

“Thanks to capabilities in ABACUS we were able to stay on track with our statutory obligations and help our stakeholders with time critical decisions.”

– Enterprise Architect, University of Edinburgh

“Sharing the architecture with anyone from Asian Development Bank allows them to see how their processes relate to others, ensuring their work aligns with organizational objectives.”

– Enterprise Architect, Asian Development Bank

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