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Application Portfolio Management
Understand your application landscape, reduce duplication, and make better modernization decisions.
Caplo gives teams one governed application inventory that connects each system to capabilities, processes, owners, and technology dependencies. Instead of debating outdated spreadsheets, you can see the landscape, compare options, and make modernization choices with context.
Where Caplo helps most
Focus area 1
Build a trustworthy application inventory
Move from fragmented app lists to a continuously usable portfolio that architecture, transformation, and security teams can all rely on.
- Capture applications, owners, lifecycle, criticality, and business fit in one repository.
- Link applications to capabilities, processes, and technology so context is never separated from inventory.
- Make application portfolio management useful for both enterprise architects and transformation leaders.
Example view
See ownership, lifecycle state, cost, fit scores, and compliance context for every application in one repository view.
Focus area 2
See dependencies and impact before you change anything
A portfolio only becomes strategic when you can see what a retirement, replacement, merger, or migration will affect across the estate.
- Understand application dependencies and change impact before modernization decisions are locked in.
- Expose overlapping tools, handoffs, and business capability coverage gaps earlier.
- Give teams the context they need for application rationalization and application modernization work.
Example view
See how one application connects to surrounding systems, business domains, and initiatives before modernization or retirement decisions are made.
Focus area 3
Turn visibility into action
The goal is not more documentation. The goal is better investment, consolidation, and sequencing decisions that leadership can trust.
- Support portfolio reviews with a connected model instead of manually stitched slides.
- Prioritize modernization, rationalization, or cloud migration initiatives with better trade-off visibility.
- Keep the same application landscape available for future ERP transformation and resilience work.
Example view
Compare application clusters by technical fit and functional fit so rationalization and modernization priorities are easier to explain.
How Caplo helps with Application Portfolio Management
- Map the application landscape.
- Understand ownership, lifecycle, and dependencies.
- Identify duplicate or overlapping applications.
- Link applications to capabilities, processes, and technology.
- Support application rationalization decisions.
- Improve modernization and transformation planning.
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Next step
See how application portfolio management looks in your own architecture context.
Caplo turns strategy, applications, technology, process, and risk context into one living model that teams can use for grounded decisions.