Pre-Con Ed: CA Project & Portfolio Management: Getting the Most from the Application Portfolio Management Accelerator

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CA Project & Portfolio Management:
Getting the Most from the Application
Portfolio Management Accelerator
Rick A. Morris/President/R2 Consulting, LLC
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AGILE MANAGEMENT

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Abstract
As someone new to CA PPM or those looking to continually leverage this powerful application
for additional return on investment, this session will explore the advantages of leveraging CA’
Application Portfolio Management accelerator in your CA PPM implementation. CA PPM can
help tame your growing infrastructure demands and help you analyze your application portfolio
and identify applications to optimize, retire, or move to the cloud. Additionally, CA PPM can
assist in governance, notifications, and the centralization of the elusive true application
portfolio.
Rick A. Morris
R2 Consulting, LLC
President

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Achieving The True Promise of Application Portfolio
Management
INVENTORY TO THE NEXT LEVEL!
THE APPLICATION OBJECT
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
WORKFLOWS AND ROUTING
REPORTING AND DASHBOARDS
INTEGRATING TO ACHIEVE TO ATTAIN TOTAL APPLICATION LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT
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Application Inventory to The Next Level!

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Advantages
§ Allows resource loading to each application
§ Inventory can be kept at appropriate levels
§ Hierarchy can be utilized to leverage program reporting for
effort / financial roll-ups
§ Application owners can be assigned
§ Business hierarchies can be identified and all applications
easily identified

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The Application Object

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The Application Object

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Advantages
§ Manage license counts
§ Manage contract dates and key metrics
§ Manage certifications and key assessment data
§ Insights to applications in key categories
§ Able to assess / create strategy for merging and sun-setting
applications that perform same function or become obsolete

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Workflows and Routing
§ Contract Renewals
§ Yearly Audits
§ License Maintenance
§ Yearly Budgeting
§ Point and Click Configurable

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Reporting and Dashboards

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Reporting and Dashboards

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Reporting and Dashboards

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Reporting and Dashboards

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Reporting and Dashboards

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Reporting and Dashboards

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Integrating to Attain Total Application Life Cycle
Management
§ Integrate existing applications to achieve total view of
applications and IT
– Agile Tools - (CA Agile Central, Jira, TFS, etc.) – Pull labor and capacity
to see total view of bug fix, enhancements, and project activity
– Service Desk Tools – (CA Service Desk, Heat, Footprints, etc.) – Pull
labor and ticket counts to see true impact of support for applications
– Financial Tools – (PeopleSoft, Oracle, etc.) – Pull financial data to see
total costs

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Advantages
§ CA PPM’s flexibility and interfaces allows you to define the
level of detail and what information you want to pull.
§ Track time at the investment level, epic level, task level or do
not track time at all!
§ Pull financials through at the transaction level or write
monthly transactions.
§ Easily create integrations that capture the work within the
systems of record.

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Contact Information
Rick A. Morris
205-410-6551
rmorris@rsquaredconsulting.com
www.rsquaredconsulting.com
@rickamorris

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