What it is (plain English)
A managed inventory of your business applications with the context to make investment decisions: what each app costs, which business capabilities it supports, its technical and functional health, and a recommendation to Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, or Eliminate (the TIME model). It turns "we have too many apps and don't know which to cut" into a defensible plan.
Problems it solves
- No authoritative list of business applications, let alone their cost or value.
- Redundant and overlapping apps nobody has rationalized.
- Technology debt invisible to decision-makers.
- Modernization and cloud decisions made without portfolio context.
What must exist first
Platform Core Setup and CMDB Foundation (applications map to business-application CIs). Application cost and ownership data are needed for meaningful analysis.
What the customer needs to provide
- Your application inventory, however partial.
- Cost data per application (licensing, infrastructure, support).
- Business capability model and application-to-capability mapping.
- Assessment criteria for health and value, and who owns each app.
Where it can go next
Rationalization feeds Strategic Planning and roadmaps; health/cost insights inform modernization programs; business-capability mapping aligns with enterprise architecture.