Application Lifecycle Management

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Learn how Ardoq can help you implement Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), monitoring the different phases that applications go through and managing changes with confidence.

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Why Application Lifecycle Management?

Application Lifecycle Management helps you understand the stages applications go through from implementation to retirement or replacement. Tracking these stages allows for better planning and a greater understanding of the value each application brings to the organization.

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Optimize Value

ALM maps the application landscape, shining a light on where and how applications provide their value to the business, their dependencies, and their owners.

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Reduce Risks

Holding on to legacy applications can cost organizations a lot of money in maintenance and upkeep, not to mention the risk of a data breach due to outdated security standards.

Avoid-Innefficiencies

Avoid Inefficiencies

Projects can be brought to a halt if they rely too much on technology that will be phased out. ALM ensures that a migration plan is in place to prevent any impact on day-to-day operations.

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5 Steps to ALM

ALM doesn't have to be complicated. Break your initiative down into these five key activities to quickly map and optimize your application portfolio.

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List Your Applications

Gather all the applications your organization uses, along with their dependencies. This might involve canvassing stakeholders to find out what each department is using.

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Prioritize Your Portfolio

Sort your application portfolio to decide what to tackle first. This could be the applications that cost the most money, or those with the biggest impact on business strategy.

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Gather Lifecycle Data

Identify which lifecycle phase each of your applications is at. We recommend five stages: Evaluation, Implementation, Live, Phasing Out, and Retired. At a minimum, add a date range to the Live phase. For more detailed planning, you could also add date ranges to the other stages.

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Find Optimization Opportunities

Analyze this data to understand where dependencies lie and how much your applications rely on technology that is being phased out. Use a data-driven EA platform to easily visualize your portfolio and spot gaps and trends.

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Use APM to Take Things Further

ALM can provide data and insights to feed into a broader Application Portfolio Management (APM) initiative, allowing you to ensure your portfolio delivers maximum value.

Ardoq's Expert-Guided ALM Solution

Leverage our best-practice, expert-guided approach to quickly gain control over your applications.

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Faster Time to Insights

Our solutions are grounded in real-world EA expertise and focused on accelerating the time to business-driven outcomes such as managing cost and reducing risk.

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Quickly Deploy Preconfigured Assets

Ardoq's ALM solution comes with metamodels, dashboards, and reports right out of the box, so EA teams get a head start on implementation.

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A Fully Customizable and Composable Approach

Organizations have the freedom and flexibility to tailor our solutions to their needs and goals.

See ALM in Action

  • Our goal was to reduce the amount of effort needed to get information on our applications. It requires about a month's worth of time for one person—about €20,000—so Ardoq already pays off because we get the information in just one click.

    Manager of Cloud and Data Governance at STIHL

  • We now see better how our applications can support the business and we have the tool to visualize this to the business side. We can have that map to plan the business around understanding where we are today.

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    Per-Christian Aubert
    Head of Integrations and Architecture at Bertel O. Steen AS

  • Having a mature Enterprise Architecture practice, being able to see across the whole landscape and understand the interconnectedness of our applications was really vital to the success of this endeavor.

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    Peter Grayley
    Peter Grayley, Senior Solutions Architecture Manager at Asda

  • (Now, with Ardoq) we have a portfolio view where you basically see what applications we have, their lifecycle information, who's owning an application, and the cost.

    Manager of Cloud and Data Governance at STIHL
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Frequently Asked Questions About ALM

Application Lifecycle Management is the process of managing the applications an organization uses from their implementation to their eventual retirement or replacement. ALM provides a framework for setting requirements and ensuring governance before deploying software. ALM helps create a unified view of the entire application lifecycle, enabling organizations to effectively manage and control all stages of an application’s lifecycle, from choosing a system to retiring it.

 

Application Lifecycle Management can have a significant and positive impact on an organization’s bottom line by reducing risks and improving governance.

1. It ensures there is a plan for retirement so that when an application reaches its end-of-life, a successor is already in place, preventing things from becoming unusable and having negative impacts on people and departments.

2. It empowers key stakeholders and IT teams to forecast and avoid security threats by identifying which applications are at risk and planning the next steps for upgrade or migration.

3. It reduces the costs of maintenance by ensuring legacy applications are not kept unnecessarily, taking away IT resources responding to bugs and troubleshooting.

Application Lifecycle Management is used to improve the efficiency, quality, and predictability of the software an organization develops, implements, and uses.

It establishes a clear and compelling business case for each application prior to development. Then, throughout the application’s lifecycle, it is continually monitored and maintained to identify potential issues and implement timely updates. This helps to protect against technology risks, such as hardware failures or software defects, and ensures that applications remain secure and compliant with industry regulations.

When the application nears the end of its life, ALM ensures there is a plan in place for a successor, whether this is an upgrade to the latest version or a full replacement.

ALM and APM are useful Enterprise Architecture tools for ensuring an organization's application portfolio delivers maximum value. While Application Portfolio Management involves managing an organization's entire collection of applications, ALM focuses on managing the entire lifecycle of individual applications. ALM contributes to Application Portfolio Management best practices by providing data and insights that feed into APM. The organization can then use APM to help prioritize applications and allocate resources accordingly.

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