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Midsize companies can often overlook application portfolio management. Yet, as the use of digital tools increases, Matt Toomey covers the five key advantages of application rationalization tools for smaller firms.
Salesforce recently spoke at our Connect summit on how grateful they were to LeanIX for showing them where to invest in their IT infrastructure to best support their strategic goals. Let’s look back at what they had to say.
The LeanIX application rationalization cost optimization survey is live. Let’s explore the results and see what IT teams are spending their money on in 2023.
Application rationalization is a cost-saving necessity in the current climate. What, however, does the process of “rationalization” actually look like?
Headquartered in Norway, Bertel O. Steen (BOS) has been a leader in the car retail industry in Norway with over 120 years of experience. Their main holding group is one of Norway’s largest service and trading companies, with a turnover of 22,7…
University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) provides tertiary care to the Northern part of the Netherlands. Located in the center of Groningen, it employs almost 17,000 people and has almost 1,400 beds. As one of the world’s largest transplant …
It is such a pleasure to be back at Forrester, especially now when our firm is actively embracing and helping you, our customers, leverage new technologies to innovate and differentiate your business. After three years leading technology strategy and m…
The National Retail Federation’s Big Show attracted tens of thousands of attendees . Far from resigning themselves to conquest by market places they are determined to make the right investments to thrive and survive. Three years ago we found retail CIO…
Agile is still alive and well and in demand, according to Forrester’s Agile adoption panel. This year, our biannual survey tracking the health of Agile initiatives focused on the main challenge: Agile at scale. As software teams get further along their…
Organizations involved in major strategic changes such as mergers, acquisitions and divestitures often focus mostly on the financial and market aspects of the change. What is the impact on your market share? How can you increase buying powe…
Although Application Portfolio Management (APM) isn’t the newest kid on the block, it has had a tremendous growth in popularity lately. Due to the economic crisis and market pressures in general, IT managers and architects are constantly pushed by their CxO’s to reduce inefficiencies, improve agility of the enterprise and cut costs. The complexity of these tasks leads to an increasing need for tools and structures to help them handle their application landscape. Since over 70% of most IT budgets goes to maintaining existing applications, it is clear that there is a need for oversight and insight in the use of these applications and their added value, to reduce costs and make room for innovation.
As we have described before, few organizations have a systematic and reliable way of translating a business strategy into action. This requires aligning various disciplines along the same desired business outcomes, to point them in the same direction. This is the core of BiZZdesign’s approach to business change.