The Growing Need

for Application Portfolio Assessment

Research and analysis by CIO UK and Fujitsu.

The huge range of applications on offer today can bring great value to businesses. Applications can increase productivity and cut operational costs. They can help you make better informed decisions, even get you closer to your customers – and that’s really just the start of what can be achieved.

However, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that the expanding portfolios of applications, now residing within most organisations, can also cause some pretty painful headaches. Many businesses are now managing hundreds of applications. They struggle to track which ones are the most strategically important, or indeed which ones they might be able to do without. Businesses are also striving to manage the complexity of licensing and upgrades, and often find it difficult to avoid duplication. Overall, it’s a syndrome that the Analyst community has dubbed ‘applications bloat’.

In this report we have partnered with CIO UK to get under the skin of these issues and provide a valuable snapshot of how CIOs think they are dealing with the task. We also provide commentary on what can be achieved when the challenges have been tackled and overcome. Finally, we introduce an approach to Applications Assessment that can help CIOs make their all important first steps towards improving their applications portfolio management.

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