Application Portfolio Management (APM) Tools

APM uses CMDB, discovery process, software asset management, and cost modeling to deliver a complete picture of the application portfolio.

Mendix is the low-code application development platform that allows you to go live sooner and get to success faster.

CAST Highlight is a software intelligence product, available as SaaS, that provides rapid insights across a portfolio of applications. It acts as an application ‘control tower’ by automatically understanding the source code of hundreds of applications in hours and delivering actionable insights on Software Health (resiliency, agility, technical debt), Cloud Maturity, Software Composition Analysis (open source risks), and Green Impact. Built-in surveys capture organizational context for more informed decision-making about application portfolios enabling smarter portfolio governance, faster modernization for cloud, better open source risk control, and greener software.

Bizzdesign is an Enterprise Architecture SaaS that provides a structured approach for Enterprise Architects to efficiently manage their EA practice, achieving goals faster and with reduced risk. Leverage the built-in guidance and expertise, along with pre-built templates, to drive time-to-value, ensure consistency, quality, and efficiency. It combines powerful data integration and a central ‘insight graph’ with current to future state modelling, roadmapping and real time analytics in a single secure and flexible collaborative business design and change platform supporting all key frameworks.

With built-in requirements management capabilities, Enterprise Architect helps you trace high-level specifications to analysis, design, implementation, test and maintenance models using UML, SysML, BPMN and other open standards.

Ardoq is a dynamic, data-driven tool for Enterprise Architecture and a key tool for your digital transformation journey. The software helps organizations and businesses plan, execute, and predict the impact of change across their people, projects, strategies, processes, applications, infrastructure, and capabilities. With Ardoq, fresh data creates a dynamic overview that provides insights for better decisions. Through the aid of dashboards, interactive visualizations, and diagrams, users can focus on understanding interdependencies between technology and people, and less time documenting.

OrbusInfinity helps transformation teams cut through the complexity of technology-driven change. Their dashboards and collaboration platform help you track, create and capture value for a better future. OrbusInfinity provides a ‘North Star’ for transformation teams and executives to confidently manage Enterprise Transformations. It enables architecture teams to collaborate with a wide range of business stakeholders to generate a Digital Blueprint of the Enterprise, enabling exceptional strategic decisions based on a unified view of the business, now and in the future.

Software AG's Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management Platform provides a collaborative platform for aligning the IT landscape with the business to guide competitive transformation. Alfabet offers a comprehensive solution for enterprise architecture management (EAM) and strategic IT planning and portfolio management (SPM). It comes in two editions – Alfabet Enterprise and Alfabet Fastlane – to let you decide which option best fits your needs based on budget, portfolio management maturity, program goals and stakeholders.

Effective application portfolio management is critical to competitiveness. As business and IT environment evolve, the portfolio of applications you need to support the business becomes increasingly complex and difficult to manage. You need to be able to upgrade existing applications, add new systems and retire obsolete software that may be causing performance to degrade. But without clear visibility into how applications are related, who’s using them and how they support the business, it’s impossible to make decisions with confidence.

Application Portfolio Management with CA Project & Portfolio Management (CA PPM) is designed to help organizations simplify and reduce risks of the Application Portfolio, helping you bridge the gap between growing technology demands and available budget. Application Portfolio Management delivers a fact-based decision-making methodology that can reduce the costs and complexity associated with managing a modernized and optimized application portfolio.