Compuware's management solution for APM initiatives

Mumbai: Compuware announced that it is jump-starting Application Portfolio Management (APM) initiatives by offering a pre-configured version of its IT portfolio management solution, Changepoint.

IT organizations recognize that APM holds great promise for reducing the costs and improving the margins of application portfolios. However, challenges in identifying inventory, collecting the right metrics and applying the resulting analysis toward decision making can make starting an APM initiative difficult. Changepoint and the APM Accelerator, key components of Compuware's Business Service Delivery approach, enable IT to get started quickly, using pre-defined metrics and industry best-practices to understand inventory, collect accurate data and assess portfolio roadmap.

“APM processes fill gaps in a company's knowledge about the costs, risks and business value of deployed applications,” said Jim Duggan, Research VP, Gartner, in the research report titled 'Planning for IT Modernization: Start From the Top With APM “Filling those gaps improves consistency of IT modernization analysis and flags opportunities to reduce total cost and risk. Without disciplined APM processes, enterprises will be dependent on poorly documented guesswork, and often will be unable to overcome institutional inertia,” he added.

Compuware's Business Service Delivery (BSD) approach ensures that applications work well and deliver value by providing visibility into the cost, value and risks of the application portfolio.