

This means less money to spend on new strategic applications that can differentiate your organization in the marketplace. Analysts estimate that 70-80% of IT operating budgets are being used to maintain existing applications. In many organizations, a large percentage of IT funds are spent maintaining and operating a growing application portfolio that is becoming increasingly stale.The scenarios are limitless and can be stored for future comparisons against answers and directions taken.īusinesses face many challenges managing their application portfolio: "What-If" scenarios allow the ability to change criteria weighting factors to envision different results and decisions as to value and benefits. Visualization (trade-off analysis) - you can confirm the rating and ranking process by visually displaying a set of initiatives against a selected set of variable criteria taking into account costs and benefits to the corporation.Known Quantitative Data from the Business Case - information about the costs and benefits, capital and operational expenditures, benefits you are projecting, financial risk projections.Configurable Scorecards - you can use these Comparitive Results to rate and rank a set of inititiatives to assure they are properly aligned to your strategic objectives.Pairwise comparisions - great when there is no known quantitiative data very early on, when you are trying to get a measure of value, stakeholders can do side-by-side comparisons of initiatives using a structured process to walk through a set of comparisons to build a statistically significant result.UNICOM ® Focal Point ™ provides four kinds of techniques to build priority lists: Planned and Actual Application Costs in a Time Grid Pipeline Prioritization In the early stages before projects become in flight, Focal Point provides a standard way to capture new initiatives, move them through a workflow, and collaborate on building up the business case. Get better visibility of what is going on across the portfolio - define stage gates or phases that projects are going through, and understand where projects are at different phases of their lifecycle.Understand if you are putting your money where your mouth is in your portfolios - look at your pipeline and promote projects that help you achieve your objectives sooner.issues and action items linked to portfolios and projects Consolidate disparate information such as risks.Automate flagging of items on the dashboard that require your attention.

