Application Portfolio Management (APM) Tools

Application Portfolio Management

What is Application Portfolio Management Tools?

Application Portfolio Management (APM) tools enable governance of the application portfolio. APM provides application managers the ability to create inventories, rationalize applications based on value, cost, and performance and generally support business decisions regarding the support or future strategy of individual applications.

Common Features

  • Inventory Control
  • Business Value Analysis
  • Risk Analysis
  • Total Cost of Ownership Analysis
  • Application Rationalization
  • Technical Health Assessment
  • Analytics and Reporting
  • Functional Overlap Assessment
  • Planning and Scheduling
  • Auto-Discovery
  • Code Performance Monitoring
  • Automated Survey Distribution
  • Visual Analysis and Design
  • ALM Integration
  • State Alternatives Analysis
  • Automated Code Scanning
  • Software Intelligence

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Top Application Portfolio Management Tools 2024

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10

APM uses CMDB, discovery process, software asset management, and cost modeling to deliver a complete picture of the application portfolio.

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Pros

  • Friendly Negotiation
  • Respectful
  • Client Friendly Policies
  • Over Delivered
Mendix

Mendix

Composite Score
7.6 /10
CX Score
8.0 /10

Mendix is the low-code application development platform that allows you to go live sooner and get to success faster.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

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Composite Score
7.9 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10

Deliver the best portfolio of projects faster, and respond quickly to changing requirements.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Cloudbyz Inc

Cloudbyz APM

Composite Score
7.8 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10

Effective application portfolio management is critical to competitiveness. As business and IT environment evolve, the portfolio of applications you need to support the business becomes increasingly complex and difficult to manage. You need to be able to upgrade existing applications, add new systems and retire obsolete software that may be causing performance to degrade. But without clear visibility into how applications are related, who’s using them and how they support the business, it’s impossible to make decisions with confidence.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Composite Score
7.6 /10
CX Score
7.8 /10

Ardoq is a dynamic, data-driven tool for Enterprise Architecture and a key tool for your digital transformation journey. The software helps organizations and businesses plan, execute, and predict the impact of change across their people, projects, strategies, processes, applications, infrastructure, and capabilities. With Ardoq, fresh data creates a dynamic overview that provides insights for better decisions. Through the aid of dashboards, interactive visualizations, and diagrams, users can focus on understanding interdependencies between technology and people, and less time documenting.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Cons

  • Vendor's Interest First
  • Under Delivered

LeanIX Enterprise Architecture is a Software-as-a-Service solution that empowers Enterprise Architects to establish a transparent IT landscape, plan business-aligned roadmaps, and execute transformation programs. With LeanIX, Enterprise Architecture teams can strategically support their business, make faster decisions, and effectively mitigate technology risks. LeanIX backs your Enterprise Architecture to leverage technology, make better decisions, and manage change with our outcome-driven approach. The flexible, best practice meta model is the foundation to meet all future business challenges.

Composite Score
7.5 /10
CX Score
8.0 /10

CAST Highlight is a software intelligence product, available as SaaS, that provides rapid insights across a portfolio of applications. It acts as an application ‘control tower’ by automatically understanding the source code of hundreds of applications in hours and delivering actionable insights on Software Health (resiliency, agility, technical debt), Cloud Maturity, Software Composition Analysis (open source risks), and Green Impact. Built-in surveys capture organizational context for more informed decision-making about application portfolios enabling smarter portfolio governance, faster modernization for cloud, better open source risk control, and greener software.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Composite Score
7.3 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10

With built-in requirements management capabilities, Enterprise Architect helps you trace high-level specifications to analysis, design, implementation, test and maintenance models using UML, SysML, BPMN and other open standards.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
WhiteCloud

EA Composer

Composite Score
7.3 /10
CX Score
7.3 /10

EAComposer is an innovative and simple-to-use enterprise architecture tool. Use it to manage your IT Landscape and Architecture Portfolio.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Cons

  • Under Delivered
Composite Score
7.2 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10

A leading tool for modeling and roadmapping. ABACUS supports collaborative enterprise architecture and connects your IT and business strategy. Cloud-based data and dashboards streamline global collaboration and remote working. ABACUS helps architects to lighten their data workload and to motivate stakeholders to set priorities and take action.   Data owners can access and update their own data with user-friendly browser-based lists and personalised dashboards and reports (roadmaps, charts, models and KPIs) .

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing