Describing Inventory Portfolios
 
Creating an Inventory Portfolio
Defining Inventory Portfolio Content
Portfolio characteristics
Rating scale
Reports
Collecting Data for a Set of Applications
Principle and prior conditions
Request completion of data via an assessment questionnaire
Entering data for an application via a questionnaire
An inventory portfolio groups a set of applications. it enables follow-up of a given set of applications.
Creating an inventory portfolio consists of defining all the information (comparison criteria, etc.) needed to assess applications of the portfolio.
*A portfolio enables representation of the investments of an enterprise (or department) necessary to carry out changes required to achieve strategic objectives.
You can also create inventory portfolios for technologies. The technology portfolio definition uses the same methods than applications portfolios.
*Hopex IT Portfolio Management Offers a different kind of portfolio: the transformation portfolio. It intervenes after the inventory and assessment and comprises project lines (including deliverables that can be applications or technologies) and can include several project lines for the same application to measure the option costs of different scenarios. See "Transforming an application portfolio", page 73.