Understand Enterprise Applications
Document and Understand Application Portfolios: Business Benefits
Gain business and technical insight into the applications that run your business
Your portfolio of enterprise applications automates and controls your core operations. But as these systems are repeatedly modified they tend to become progressively more complex. And as business analysts and development professionals move on to different roles or are outsourced, knowledge of these applications and the operations that they automate is not transferred.
Relativity Technologies can help. Our industry-leading Modernization Workbench® software platform enables users to quickly extract business intelligence from application portfolios -- across a diverse range of environments. Unlike high-level scanning technologies, the Modernization Workbench provides rich knowledge about the value, risk, cost, and structure of legacy applications and business processes -- accelerating application maintenance and application modernization activities.
With the Modernization Workbench you can:
Understand Application Portfolios Based on Business Context
Your business must be managed from multiple perspectives. Business users want to understand how adaptable and efficient are their business processes. Security chiefs want to ensure that security threats are understood and confronted. Outsourcing managers need to ensure that provider companies adhere to service level agreements.
As a result, application portfolio management means different things to different users. Relativity Technologies addresses this challenge through a unique approach. Users can overlay business contexts onto their software assets.
Users can view this information through a business lens by connecting metrics to overarching business processes, geographies, or other useful business contexts. This helps to focus analysis, application mining, governance, development, and other legacy modernization or maintenance activities on just the artifacts that matter to a given business challenge. Further, meaningful metrics and insights about the application portfolio can be 'rolled-up' to multiple levels in the organization -- creating truly business-centric application portfolio management.
Understand and Visualize Application Architecture
Subject matter experts are up to 40% more effective than their peers at maintaining applications. With the Modernization Workbench, users can quickly become experts on their diverse and highly complex applications. Interactive diagrams, multi-level reports, powerful querying capabilities, and synchronized views into code, data items, and logic demystify even complex business processes and enterprise applications. This knowledge transfer is especially important when a new team takes control of an application, for instance during application outsourcing.
Understand Application Boundaries and Relationships
When conducting application maintenance and application modernization activities, it is important to define the 'edges' of an application. The Modernization Workbench offers a powerful capability to identify and investigate these boundaries, vastly improving your portfolio documentation, properly scoping projects, and ensuring that unintended impacts to related systems are addressed.
Understand Application Quality and Health
An important output from any understanding initiative is the ability to identify potential trouble spots. High complexity elements are directly associated with higher maintenance costs and increased risk of breakage. Low value processes may be targets for outsourcing or retirement. And a commodity process may be a candidate for replacement with a packaged application.
The Modernization Workbench offers detailed, customizable metrics reports that enables users to identify, prioritize, and execute modernization initiatives that allow resources to be focused on business priorities. This enables management to focus effort on what is core to the business and estimate the degree of effort required to complete application remediation activities. This is an important element of application portfolio management.
Understand Business Processes
Your enterprise applications are valuable because of the business processes they automate. The Modernization Workbench offers patented technology that allows users to quickly locate, document, and organize business logic hidden throughout the application portfolio. Business logic documentation provides governance over the intellectual property that your organization has built and refined over time. This streamlines the alignment of applications with business requirements, for instance through more accurate functional specifications.
