The Value of Application Portfolio Management
How to use IT as a business driver and cost–saving center
Introduction
Today’s market forces are creating a push-pull environment for IT
departments. On the one hand, IT managers are being asked to align IT
with the business’s vision to help the company react quickly to
competition, globalization and growth. On the other hand, economic
conditions require smaller IT budgets and greater efficiencies out of
existing solutions.
What’s more, rapid growth in IT investments and infrastructure over the
last decade has yielded increased complexity, inefficiency and waste.
According to an AMR Research survey, 25% of IT professionals from
companies with more than 1,000 employees say integration is one of
the top challenges of managing software, followed by responding to
changing requirements (24%), expense (21%) and reconfiguring
business processes as needed (13%).
Creating greater visibility and control over IT planning and purchases
could solve many of these challenges.
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