The Tool Comparison Matrix For Application Portfolio Rationalization provides CIOs and IT leaders with a side-by-side view of various tool categories: IT discovery; security; software asset management (SAM); IT asset management (ITAM); enterprise asset management systems (EAMS); enterprise architecture (EA); IT service management (ITSM) tools; strategic portfolio management (SPM); cloud cost optimization and management systems (CCOMS); cloud financial operations (FinOps); procurement; and finance

Adopt Data Governance Principles To Stabilize Your Portfolio To solve the portfolio management problem, turn to best practices from the data management domain. Portfolios, labels, tags, and the rest are a fundamental master data management issue.

Both products support project and product portfolio management. Strategy. OpenText acquired Micro Focus in 2022 to add PPM and app modernization capabilities. It aims to make its SPM solutions the central platform for enterprise strategic planning and governance, supporting unified investment, outcome, and execution management.

Eight Steps To Optimize Strategic Portfolio Management. This report discusses the challenges when transitioning from traditional waterfall practices to a holistic strategic portfolio management approach and provides actionable steps to understand your organization’s IT strategy to help improve portfolio planning and prioritization. Identify And Leverage Your Application Portfolio. This report discusses the importance of effective application portfolio management.

Treat Journey Investment As Portfolio Management, Not A Backlog Exercise Most organizations still prioritize journeys the way they manage delivery backlogs: incrementally, locally, and without forcing hard trade-offs. A portfolio approach changes this. Instead of asking which initiatives to fund next, leaders decide which journeys deserve protection, parity, or disproportionate investment and govern those choices over time.

Strategic Portfolio Management Tools: Core Use Cases Strategic portfolio management tools have five core use cases: strategic planning, business architecture, portfolio management, investment management, and adaptive portfolio management. This graphic has an associated spreadsheet that includes the objectives and top differentiators of each. Please access the spreadsheet for details.

Via the portfolio, leadership can demonstrate what, why, and how decisions impact overall value delivery by bringing visibility to capacity constraints and the drain of low-value work. To avoid potential bureaucracy, portfolio managers must: Apply the appropriate portfolio lens. Strategic portfolio management (SPM) supports multiple lenses that provide greater insight into the allocation of resources.

Forrester recommends starting AI agents at a low level of autonomy, with identities treated as a distinct identity and access management protection surface and constrained through standards-based architectures. Early phases should limit agents to observation and recommendation, using read-only analysis to discover dependencies, simulate actions, and reduce modernization scope while establishing auditability and intent visibility.

GenAI Has Become The No. 1 Source For Information About Providers Forrester surveyed 573 enterprise IT consulting, management, transformation, and support services purchase influencers (referred to here as services buyers) in our Buyers’ Journey Survey, 2025. For the first time, we found that genAI has become the most important information source across the buying journey (see Figure 1).

Qualiware recently released Qualiware Go, an AR mobile app that gives users access to an organization’s management system wherever they are. The IT Control Plane Comes Of Age The figure illustrates the convergence of enterprise architecture, strategic portfolio management, and IT financial management into a unified IT control plane for governing technology and business value.