Application Value Assessment - Portfolio Management

Are your applications delivering results?

Like any investment portfolio, your company’s applications portfolio probably contains winners and losers. You want to maximise your investment in the former, minimise the latter, and balance business risk appropriately across the entire portfolio – all without disrupting day-to-day operations. This is a significant challenge. Good application portfolio management requires:

• Clearly defined connections between investments and outcomes;
• Consistent investment criteria; and
• Best practices for ongoing evaluation of investments.

Otherwise, all you have is ‘leap of faith’ investing. You will never truly know how much current support costs could be reduced, or how those savings might be redirected to new initiatives that better support your business strategy.

What are Your Priorities?

• Are your application investments focused on projects with the most immediate impact and greatest payback?
• Does your business case support decommissioning some applications in order to support new application projects?
• Do you have a sound business case and plan for rationalising applications and migrating legacy applications to a new environment?
• Have you minimised your maintenance costs?
• Do you know the total cost of ownership for your entire applications portfolio?
• Do you have a plan for optimising your portfolio of applications to support faster rollout of new products?

If you answered 'No' or 'I don't know' to any of these questions, it's time to reprioritise your applications spending. An Application Value Assessment from Fujitsu can show you how.

Fujitsu offers a comprehensive, industry-leading Application Value Assessment (AVA) that will help you maximise the business value of your applications portfolio. AVA takes a Portfolio Management approach, leveraging best practices and industry-leading portfolio analysis tools, for the evaluation and optimisation of IT spending.

Your Application Value Assessment

Since ‘value’ is defined differently by each organisation, Fujitsu consultants apply proven best practices and tools using a flexible approach. These practices and tools provide an objective, ‘value-based’ analysis which clearly identifies areas where action should be taken.

The assessment allows ‘what if’ analyses to determine the best return and evaluate alternative actions to balance your portfolio. Where appropriate, you are also provided with techniques and tools for detailed applications analysis.

A series of criteria in the form of ‘scorecards’ are used to rate a number of dimensions for each application and the overall portfolio.

This information is further analysed and represented visually with ‘investor maps,’ which can be used to determine the most appropriate strategy for a particular application or suite of applications.

Visual displays provide multidimensional perspectives on the portfolio and quickly communicate relevant information to senior decision-makers. You gain immediate, high-payback guidance on how to prioritise your portfolio. At the same time, your organisation will experience our uniquely effective set of integrated portfolio management methods, techniques, and tools.

It’s about … experience
Highly-skilled Application Value Assessment consultants draw upon Fujitsu's proven methodologies and worldwide experience.

It’s about… flexibility
The assessment can be conducted in many different ways, depending on how your organisation defines 'value' and the applications you would like assessed.

It’s about… speed
The assessment can be undertaken in a relatively short time, enabling you to take prompt action on problems identified.

“Our industry recognised strategic approach, Macroscope, enables clients to build more value into their investments and drive their leadership in the marketplace.”

The Benefits

Your organisation will benefit from an Application Value Assessment with:

• A review of how well your application portfolio is serving your business needs;
• A benchmark of all or part of the portfolio that can be used to identify improvement targets and allow for future measurement;
• An assessment of the entire application portfolio. This will provide evidence of how well the delivery capability and its supporting processes, tools and administration meet the demands of the business. It will also assess the opportunity for productivity and quality improvements and determine the impact these can have on the total cost of ownership;
• Focused actions that optimise the business value of the application portfolio; and
• A sound business case for which applications to invest in, and which to decommission.

The Results

Fujitsu's results-oriented approach ensures your Application Value Assessment will provide valuable information in the shortest possible time. You will be able to:

• Rationalise and simplify your application portfolio;
• Reduce the overall cost of supporting the current portfolio and identify how total cost of ownership can be better managed;
• Redirect portfolio savings and resources to strategic business applications and new initiatives that will support your business strategy; and
• Establish a sustainable end-to-end process and governance structure that will ensure the continued optimisation of your application portfolio, from the initial investment decision through to application decommissioning.