Governance with HOPEX IT Portfolio Management
Associated with other HOPEX Suite products, HOPEX IT Portfolio Management enables description of all components involved in management of the enterprise application assets.
Application and technology inventory
In the inventory phase, Application Owners update business applications and their deployment.
To manage a consistent repository of your application assets, HOPEX IT Portfolio Management relies on the following data:
• Applications and Application Systems
• Technologies that are part of the application assets
• Life Cycles describing the different states that Technology, Application or Deployment object types can take over a given period.
• Business Processes: a standard business process tree nomenclature is supplied with HOPEX IT Portfolio Management.
• Business Lines that correspond to major product segments, distribution channels or business activities, according to enterprises.
• Business Capabilities of the enterprise.
• Org-Units of the enterprise.
• Sites hosting applications.
• Software or hardware Technologies required for operation of applications.
• Editors, suppliers of technologies.
• Costs described based on nomenclature simplifying analysis.
• Functionalities offered by the applications.
• Business Data exchanged between applications.
Tools are proposed to check global consistency of information collected.
Application and technology evaluation
HOPEX IT Portfolio Management enables comparison of applications inventoried on criteria such as cost, use rate or criticality for the enterprise, and proposes different reports for this purpose.
Transforming application and technology assets
With the HOPEX Project Portfolio Management functionalities, you can plan and follow up on the transformation of your application and technological assets. You can build transformation scenarios for your applications and technologies within different projects that can be compared.
When a project is validated, the life cycle that it contains is automatically transferred to the applications that appear in the inventory portfolios.
Analyzing the impact of the applications asset transformation on the data used
Applications use and exchange a large amount of data that can be strategic, sensitive, private, etc. The management and transformation of the application portfolio must take into account the impact of applications on the data used.
To do so, HOPEX IT Portfolio Management offers the following features:
• Building a business glossary
• Defining the data used in the application and the data exchanged
• Categorizing data: Golden data, sensitive data, etc.
• Defining responsibilities and data properties
• Defining Golden source applications
• Assessing data quality
• Generating impact reports on the data used by an application
• Initializing data from an Excel template.