Application Portfolio Management Software (APM)
Keeping track of software applications, SaaS subscriptions and use cases in complex large enterprise organisations can be a challenging task for IT/Tech/Software/Digital departments. Particularly with shaddow IT throughout ther organisation purchasing specialist software for their unique use cases. Add that with the complexity that there is an enormous expectation that the centralised IT department is expected to magically know everything about everything.
Trusted Application List
No more fiddling around with piles of outdated and untrustworthy spreadsheets filled with missing information spread across globally diverse teams of people. Simply have one source of truth when it comes to understanding what software applications you have across your IT estate.
With all of your applications, how to access them via their URLs, what the system does and more you can have trust in the systems that are powering your organisation at scale. Simply drill down into topics of importance and traverse your organisation with ease.
Understand Software Criticality
When it comes to supporting business critical systems at enterprise scale, it can be extremely challenging to understand risk when it comes to major systems. These kinds of organisational insights often take years of understanding to truly appreciate the risks associated with different business systems.
That’s why ArchiTech360° empowers your teams to understand application criticality at a glance across your organisation, to enable smarter decisions from strategic planning through to reactive incident responses. By understanding the associated risk with different software applications across your technical estate this immediately help to frame every decision and action taken.
Simply tag your software applications with their associated criticality to instantly visualise your estate at the click of a button.
Map Application Capabilities
Understanding the capabilities of the software applications your organisation has already invested in over the decades is critically important when coming to yet another request to introduce another brand new system costing many £Millions in annual licences. But how do you do that at enterprise scale without either being a super human or recruiting teams of dedicated subject matter experts in every system. It’s a near impossible task.
Which is why we have a handy feature on ArchiTech360° to empower your teams to simply translate the marketing material from your business critical software vendors into human readable basic Modules/Features/Functionality mapping so that you can make informed decisions when faced with strategic pivot points.
Easily understand the full suite of capabilities of the software already within your IT estate so that you can have mature conversations around the strategic direction of travel for both existing and new software.
Map Application Feature Utilisation
When it comes to understanding the software application utilisation of investments across your complex enterprise IT estate, it can be extremely challenging. Firstly you have to have a solid understanding of the systems, modules, features and functionality of your software applications.
Next you need to truly understand what is currently being used or what you are basically paying for and not using……
We’ve supported organisations with strategic investment strategies which avoided throwing the baby out with the bath water and wasting £XX Millions, through strategic reviews of their existing capabilities of software and applications within their existing technology estate to understand where there are underutilised gaps in possible capabilities. Not abstract diagrams, theories and presentations – Just facts about the capabilities of your existing software.
Detailed Understanding of Application Architecture
Managing the portfolio of applications across your complex enterprise organisation is more than simply having a list of software in a spreadsheet. It’s about having a deep understanding of what that software does, how it is use throughout the organisation, what business processes it touches and more.
That’s why the ArchiTech360° platform empowers your teams to gather insights about the software applications and connect them to the relevant areas of the organisation over time. Tracking both the non-technical and technical aspects to allow you to easily traverse understanding when discussing improvements to systems and strategic projects.
All of this is focused around productivity gains by ensuring teams are all singing from the same hymn sheet when it comes to a common and accurate understanding of what is required at any point in time.
Track Release Process for Application
Tracking your release path to production for the software applications across your complex IT estate is an extremely challenging activity at enterprise scale spanning large teams, both internal and external. Yet keeping track of the route a change takes through the software environments is absolutely critical to understand how changes flow and are controlled throughout that end to end process.
That’s why we empower your teams to easily track the release process through the environments that are being managed and governed means that everyone on the team has a clear understanding of how changes move through the process.
Understand the Technology Powering your Software Applications
Understanding the key technologies powering the software applications across your enterprise organisation is critical to understand where your risks are. Tracking the core technologies and the versions in use empowers your organisation to make strategic informed decisions about the direction of travel.
Technology is at the core of everything, it drives recruitment needs, it shapes team training and either spreads or concentrates risk associated with any specific technology. Having an organisation wide view of the technologies powering your systems enables you to make informed strategic decisions and manage risk significantly easier.
Track Software Applications Storing GDPR Data
Keeping track of the software systems and applications that either store or process data that is within scope of GDPR compliance can be challenging and daunting task at enterprise scale, often requiring teams of specialists to come in and perform point-in-time audits to understand where data lives. This is a very time consuming and costly exercise.
Which is why we’ve a handy feature on the ArchiTech360° empowers your technical teams to easily tag both Personal and Sensitive Data that is stored throughout the software systems that are powering your organisation in real time. Giving you proactive visibility and confidence in preparation for your next annual audit that reviews these activities.