Hello Everyone!
Thank you for attending the Best Practice Webinar regarding APM Best Practices today! Below you will find the recording to the presentation, the deck used to present, and a recap of what was discussed.
Recap:
- The webinar is about Application Portfolio Management (APM) best practices and use cases in LeanIX, an Enterprise Architecture tool.
- It suggests starting an APM initiative by compiling a list of past, present and future applications deployed on your system, identifying who owns these applications, and understanding the life cycle of these applications.
- To ensure good quality data in your APM, LeanIX recommends using Quality Seals, a feature that ensures mandatory fields and attributes are filled in data.
- LeanIX offers various features to aid APM, including configurable surveys, quality seals, tagging, diagram editor for visualizing application landscape, predefined KPI dashboards for analyzing and evaluating application performance, and automation features for reducing manual work.
- For managing SaaS applications, LeanIX suggests leveraging SaaS Discovery feature. This identifies and discovers all SaaS applications, automatically updates the application inventory, and continuously monitors the SaaS landscape for any new applications.
- After conducting an Application Portfolio Assessment, moving on to Application Rationalization is recommended. This involves review and design of the current application portfolio, implementation of the rationalization roadmap, and operation towards a new state of the application portfolio.
- LeanIX reiterates the need for continuous application portfolio management due to the constantly changing nature of technology and business environments.
- Further resources for APM best practices including LeanIX documentation, LeanIX Academy courses, and LeanIX Community are also shared.