LeanIX Application Portfolio Management

Optimize your IT landscape today to fuel tomorrow’s competitive success

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As organizations grow, IT departments and individual employees buy applications to solve urgent problems without giving enough thought to the implications. As a result, most businesses spend 70-80% of their IT budgets on supporting aging, low-value legacy applications, leaving very little money to invest in meaningful technology transformation initiatives. With LeanIX Application Portfolio Management, create a single source of truth for everyone, gain visibility into your current state of IT architecture and build your roadmap towards your optimized target architecture that guarantees buy-ins from all stakeholders for all your future transformation initiatives.

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Manage IT Complexity

  • Build a comprehensive overview of your application landscape quickly via Excel import, customizable surveys, and OOTB integrations
  • Capture the complexity of your IT landscape with our best practice, customizable Meta Model
  • Create a business capability map to create a common point of reference for business stakeholders
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Evaluate Risks

  • Map applications to business capabilities to simplify planning and improve risk assessment
  • Gain an overview of dependencies and associated costs by linking applications to their underpinning software and hardware IT Components
  • Evaluate the technical and functional fit of your applications while highlighting critical dependencies and risks with an actionable Application Portfolio Assessment
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Optimize IT Spend

  • Assess IT investment by connecting technology spend to business impact
  • Remove redundant, outdated, or ill-suited applications to ensure maximum business scalability and efficiency
  • Reduce application costs per year, lowering total cost of ownership (TCO) and freeing up budget for innovation

How it works

Discover

Discover and build an up-to-date application repository to understand your as-is

  • Import existing application data from Excel and expand that data via crowdsourced surveys and best-in-breed OOTB integrations
  • Develop a Business Capability map either from scratch or import a best-practice Business Capability Map
  • Automate documentation, simplify research, and make data-driven decisions faster with LeanIX Business AI.
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Analyze

Analyze and evaluate how each application supports and enables the business

  • Document how your applications support and enable the business by linking them to business capabilities
  • Enrich applications by collecting data on business criticality and lifecycle , and functional fit and technical fit within the organization via surveys
  • Map applications to their underpinning software and hardware IT Components to get visibility into dependencies and associated risks

Design

Design your target portfolio by identifying candidates for rationalization

  • Gain visibility into data flows and dependencies between applications through provided and consumed interfaces
  • Create pre-defined reports to help analyze the costs and value of each application to identify redundant and rationalized applications
  • Utilize the TIME methodology and other best-practice frameworks to categorize and optimize your portfolio.
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Implement

Implement your Rationalization roadmap, document changes and enable your organization

  • Scope rationalization efforts according to business criticality and functional or organizational User Group
  • Define ways forward for each application in waves of short-term, medium-term, and long-term measures
  • Establish a data-driven change management program, one including all necessary enablement for new applications

Operate

Run and operate your progress towards a new as-is state

  • Track progress against set KPIs and continuously visualize the end-to-end project on pre-defined dashboards.
  • Provide stakeholders with data-rich transparency into the current and target landscape
  • Ensure your application portfolio remains agile and your stakeholders happy by continuously planning for rationalization.
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Success Stories

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ESTÉE LAUDER

Application Portfolio Optimization

“The first step in doing the Application Portfolio Optimization is acquiring the entire landscape of applications.”

Dawitt Lessanu, Executive Director of EA - Estée Lauder

Why Customers Choose LeanIX

Don't just take our word for it - read about how our customers have experienced LeanIX to get on top of their application rationalization.

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"I'm using LeanIX more years in two different companies. LeanIX offers a low learning curve for staters but still is very powerful laterwards. Therefore it offers a good starting point in the EA discipline without all of the theoretical background which ist also there if you need it."
Max Mustermann
LeanIX
Jun 17, 2023
"I'm using LeanIX more years in two different companies. LeanIX offers a low learning curve for staters but still is very powerful laterwards. Therefore it offers a good starting point in the EA discipline without all of the theoretical background which ist also there if you need it."
Max Mustermann
LeanIX
Jun 17, 2023
"I'm using LeanIX more years in two different companies. LeanIX offers a low learning curve for staters but still is very powerful laterwards. Therefore it offers a good starting point in the EA discipline without all of the theoretical background which ist also there if you need it."
Max Mustermann
LeanIX
Jun 17, 2023
"I'm using LeanIX more years in two different companies. LeanIX offers a low learning curve for staters but still is very powerful laterwards. Therefore it offers a good starting point in the EA discipline without all of the theoretical background which ist also there if you need it."
Max Mustermann
LeanIX
Jun 17, 2023
"I'm using LeanIX more years in two different companies. LeanIX offers a low learning curve for staters but still is very powerful laterwards. Therefore it offers a good starting point in the EA discipline without all of the theoretical background which ist also there if you need it."
Max Mustermann
LeanIX
Jun 17, 2023
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