Application Portfolio Rationalization
Insight-EA Dramatically Shortens Time to Value for a major Oil & Gas Firm
Approach
Insight-EA was used to create a comprehensive inventory of Applications, Technologies, Business Capabilities and a Business Taxonomy. Techniques and tools used includeD:
- Extensive Questionnaires Sent to 1,000+ Business and IT Users to Gather Content
- Interactive Business Capability Map used to Heat Map Functional Redundancy and Strategic Fit
- Information and Data Landscape Maps
- Application Landscape Maps to Show Current and Future States
- Application Value Models showing Candidates for Investment and Demise
- Extensive Questionnaires Sent to 1,000+ Business and IT Users to Gather Content
Outcome
The findings from the initial data gathering and analysis have been used to drive a change and consolidation program. The use of Insight-EA’s dynamic survey capability dramatically reduced the amount of time needed to gather that essential information by engaging stakeholders from across the organization:
- New Enterprise Architecture Workstreams are Being Spun-up as a Direct Result of the Initial Rationalization Effort
- Technical Debt Actively Reduced and at Least One Data Center is a Candidate for Closure Following the Analysis