Application Portfolio Strategy

Rethinking application strategies to better reflect today’s collaborative business models

What are the best ways to extend and evolve application portfolios to meet changing business requirements?

Many businesses struggle to keep up with these demands because of the inflexibility of the application architecture and the challenges of maintaining one complex application portfolio. A big part of the problem is that many of the systems have been architected to focus on improving internal processes and operations, while much of the business strategy has shifted to a network-based orientation.

Wincere helps companies to focus on their IT investments for competitive business advantage. We help define IT goals in business language and align them with prevailing business models. The most effective way for an IT organization to do this is to understand the business services of the organization.Wincere can help.

Rather than looking at applications as a static inventory of programs, objects and files, Wincere evaluates applications on a comprehensive set of intrinsic characteristics like functional quality, technical quality, management quality, scalability,modularity, and stability. Through such rigorous analysis comes clarity as to what looks healthy, what must go, and what needs technical or functional improvements.

Wincere completely analyzes your application portfolio and then develops a comprehensive guide to achieving the IT mix that best supports business goals and identifies the areas that have the most potential to create value.

A Wincere team will assist you in aligning your application portfolio with a defined business services architecture that will create a business-driven framework to support your IT investment decisions.

Specialized Expertise:

• Application Management:
  Reduce costs and increase the value of your IT investments.
• Application Development:
  With small, discrete application development projects, improve your business applications over time as Wincere offers you ways to evolve into Service-Oriented Enterprises.
• Application Modernization:
  Optimize the value of legacy IT investments; reduce the complexity of your application portfolio and lower costs.
• Application Testing:
  Incorporate outsourcing into your operations with minimal risk while reducing costs.