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Primary Goal and Business Case for Application Portfolio Management


With a large majority of expenses going to manage the existing IT applications,

The transparency of the current inventory of applications and resource consumption is a primary goal of Application Portfolio Management. This enables firms to:

1) Identify and eliminate partially and wholly redundant applications,

2) Quantify the condition of applications in terms of stability, quality, and maintainability,

3) Quantify the business value / impact of applications and the relative importance of each application to the business,

4) Allocate resources according to the applications' condition and importance in the context of business priorities.

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