Application Portfolio Management (APM) Tools

Application Portfolio Management

What is Application Portfolio Management Tools?

Application Portfolio Management (APM) tools enable governance of the application portfolio. APM provides application managers the ability to create inventories, rationalize applications based on value, cost, and performance and generally support business decisions regarding the support or future strategy of individual applications.

Common Features

  • Inventory Control
  • Business Value Analysis
  • Risk Analysis
  • Total Cost of Ownership Analysis
  • Application Rationalization
  • Technical Health Assessment
  • Analytics and Reporting
  • Functional Overlap Assessment
  • Planning and Scheduling
  • Auto-Discovery
  • Code Performance Monitoring
  • Automated Survey Distribution
  • Visual Analysis and Design
  • ALM Integration
  • State Alternatives Analysis

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Top Application Portfolio Management Tools 2024

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10

APM uses CMDB, discovery process, software asset management, and cost modeling to deliver a complete picture of the application portfolio.

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Pros

  • Friendly Negotiation
  • Respectful
  • Client Friendly Policies
  • Over Delivered
Mendix

Mendix

Composite Score
7.6 /10
CX Score
8.0 /10

Mendix is the low-code application development platform that allows you to go live sooner and get to success faster.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

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Composite Score
7.5 /10
CX Score
8.0 /10

CAST Highlight is a software intelligence product, available as SaaS, that provides rapid insights across a portfolio of applications. It acts as an application ‘control tower’ by automatically understanding the source code of hundreds of applications in hours and delivering actionable insights on Software Health (resiliency, agility, technical debt), Cloud Maturity, Software Composition Analysis (open source risks), and Green Impact. Built-in surveys capture organizational context for more informed decision-making about application portfolios enabling smarter portfolio governance, faster modernization for cloud, better open source risk control, and greener software.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Composite Score
7.0 /10
CX Score
7.2 /10

Bizzdesign is an Enterprise Architecture SaaS that provides a structured approach for Enterprise Architects to efficiently manage their EA practice, achieving goals faster and with reduced risk. Leverage the built-in guidance and expertise, along with pre-built templates, to drive time-to-value, ensure consistency, quality, and efficiency. It combines powerful data integration and a central ‘insight graph’ with current to future state modelling, roadmapping and real time analytics in a single secure and flexible collaborative business design and change platform supporting all key frameworks.

Pros

  • Security Protects
  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Composite Score
7.0 /10
CX Score
7.6 /10

With built-in requirements management capabilities, Enterprise Architect helps you trace high-level specifications to analysis, design, implementation, test and maintenance models using UML, SysML, BPMN and other open standards.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
Ardoq Inc.

Ardoq

Composite Score
6.8 /10
CX Score
7.2 /10

Ardoq is a dynamic, data-driven tool for Enterprise Architecture and a key tool for your digital transformation journey. The software helps organizations and businesses plan, execute, and predict the impact of change across their people, projects, strategies, processes, applications, infrastructure, and capabilities. With Ardoq, fresh data creates a dynamic overview that provides insights for better decisions. Through the aid of dashboards, interactive visualizations, and diagrams, users can focus on understanding interdependencies between technology and people, and less time documenting.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
Orbus Software

OrbusInfinity

Composite Score
6.5 /10
CX Score
6.5 /10

OrbusInfinity helps transformation teams cut through the complexity of technology-driven change. Their dashboards and collaboration platform help you track, create and capture value for a better future. OrbusInfinity provides a ‘North Star’ for transformation teams and executives to confidently manage Enterprise Transformations. It enables architecture teams to collaborate with a wide range of business stakeholders to generate a Digital Blueprint of the Enterprise, enabling exceptional strategic decisions based on a unified view of the business, now and in the future.

Pros

  • Client's Interest First
  • Friendly Negotiation
  • Security Protects
  • Enables Productivity

Cons

  • Under Delivered
Software AG

Alfabet

Composite Score
6.0 /10
CX Score
6.5 /10

Software AG's Alfabet Enterprise Architecture Management Platform provides a collaborative platform for aligning the IT landscape with the business to guide competitive transformation. Alfabet offers a comprehensive solution for enterprise architecture management (EAM) and strategic IT planning and portfolio management (SPM). It comes in two editions – Alfabet Enterprise and Alfabet Fastlane – to let you decide which option best fits your needs based on budget, portfolio management maturity, program goals and stakeholders.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Unique Features

Cons

  • Inhibits Innovation
  • Less Reliable
Cloudbyz Inc

Cloudbyz APM

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Effective application portfolio management is critical to competitiveness. As business and IT environment evolve, the portfolio of applications you need to support the business becomes increasingly complex and difficult to manage. You need to be able to upgrade existing applications, add new systems and retire obsolete software that may be causing performance to degrade. But without clear visibility into how applications are related, who’s using them and how they support the business, it’s impossible to make decisions with confidence.

Broadcom

Clarity

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Application Portfolio Management with CA Project & Portfolio Management (CA PPM) is designed to help organizations simplify and reduce risks of the Application Portfolio, helping you bridge the gap between growing technology demands and available budget. Application Portfolio Management delivers a fact-based decision-making methodology that can reduce the costs and complexity associated with managing a modernized and optimized application portfolio.