SPM for Application Analysis

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About this course:

Learn how to implement a world-class Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) method with the award-winning online training team at Good e-Learning.

Around the world, organizations must keep tight control over budgets, deadlines, and resources for the sake of meeting essential business objectives. This course from Orbus Software will provide you with an excellent foundation in SPM, along with a set of tools for successfully realizing the benefits. The course uses the leading business and IT transformation suite iServer as a practical example to help you learn how to implement SPM in real-world projects. Kickstart your SPM training today!

Who is this course aimed at?

  • Employees and managers who require an introduction to Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM)
  • Students wishing to understand how to tackle common issues in SPM and Application Portfolio Management (APM)
  • Users of Microsoft Power BI and iServer
  • Organizations hoping to take advantage of demonstrably effective SPM practices

What will you learn by taking this course?

  • The basics of the Orbus Software Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) solution
  • How SPM can be applied in order to solve common APM issues
  • How Orbus Software’s APM approach fits within Microsoft Power BI and iServer
  • Common elements of APM, including establishing application support for strategy, managing the application lifecycle, managing application costs, application rationalization, and data protection

Why should you take this course?

  • Orbus Software is a world-class training provider with an expansive portfolio
  • Good e-Learning offers excellent support for students, both for technical issues and course content
  • The course provides several scenarios to help students understand relevant business questions and stakeholder types, how to use a conceptual method of approach, how to utilize data structures, and how to present samples for analysis
  • Every module offers a simulated practice exercise to provide students with practical experience by using SPM to navigate and analyze a sample dataset
  • After this course, students will require little additional training in order to begin using SPM practices
  • SPM can help enterprise architecture teams to address and present answers on critical business requirements for IT
  • Using Orbus Software’s SPM Solution can help expedite time-to-value

Module 1: Course Overview

Learning Objectives

This module provides an introduction to the course, as well as Orbus Software’s SPM solution.

Module 2: Introduction to Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM)

Learning Objectives

This module looks at SPM as a concept, and how to use Orbus’ solution. It also explains five key scenarios in APM.

Module 3: SPM Foundations

Learning Objectives

This module explores how the Orbus SPM solution can be integrated into a tool, with iServer used as an example. It also looks at data in SPM, how to utilize the SPM metamodel, and how to navigate SPM in Power BI.

Module 4: Application Support for Strategy

Learning Objectives

This module provides an overview of Application Support for Strategy, along with the associated roles, context, and business questions. It also explains traceability between applications and strategies and how iServer applies to each scenario. Finally, it looks at SPM data and reporting within strategic application support.

Module 5: Application Lifecycle Management

Learning Objectives

This module offers an overview of Application Lifecycle Management, as well as the associated roles, context, and business questions. It then introduces students to how to manage the ‘application lifecycle’ as well as its impact. Finally, it gives students an overview of SPM data and reporting in the context of managing the application lifecycle.

Module 6: Application Cost Management

Learning Objectives

This module looks at Application Cost Management, along with the associated context, roles, and business questions. It also explores the Orbus approach as well as the relevant considerations. Finally, it gives students an overview of SPM data and reporting in application cost management.

Module 7: Application Rationalization

Learning Objectives

This module offers an overview of Application Rationalization, along with the associated context, roles, and business questions. It also explores the way Orbus Software’s SPM solution approaches rationalization and relevant considerations, such as application scoring. Finally, it offers an overview of SPM data and reporting in the context of identifying application rationalization candidates.

Module 8: Applications Data Management

Learning Objectives

This final module provides an overview of Application Data Management, along with the associated context, roles, and business questions. It then explains traceability between data, applications, and business areas. Next, it explores the SPM approach to rationalization, along with relevant considerations such as application scoring. It then gives an overview of APM data and reporting in the context of analyzing sensitive data.

Who are Orbus Software?

Headquartered in London, and founded in 2004, Orbus Software is an independent software vendor and a globally recognized leading provider of software and services for Business and IT Transformation. Orbus Software’s customers are predominantly large, blue chip organizations located across the Americas, EMEA, Australasia and the ASEAN, and span all industry verticals.

What is the iServer Business and IT Transformation Suite?

The iServer Business and IT Transformation Suite comprises of iServer, a leading enterprise modeling and collaboration platform, as well as solutions for 4 business and IT management practices: Enterprise Architecture, Strategic Portfolio Management, Business Process Analysis and Governance, Risk and Compliance.

Additionally, Orbus provide out of the box support for a range of best practice standards and frameworks, including TOGAF, IT4IT, ArchiMate, BPMN, COBIT 5, ITIL and more.

What is SPM?

Increasingly, enterprises are turning to Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) as a technique to decide which components of the business should be invested in to deliver their strategic goals.

SPM considers the business as a set of portfolios – such as applications, technologies and projects to help stakeholders decide where best to focus the organisation’s finite resources in order to meet strategic objectives, rationalise costs, reduce risk, and increase operational productivity.

What is APM?

Successful Application Portfolio Management (APM) requires an inventory of your company’s applications together with metrics to understand their fit and value to the business.

iServer’s SPM dashboards deliver a complete picture of your application portfolio out-of-the-box, together with insights into the dependencies between applications, the technology landscape, business capabilities and strategy.

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  • Course duration: 3+ hours

  • Access period: 6 months

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