IT Portfolio Management Summary

IT Governance, Your Path to Measured Success

Could a disciplined, accountable and transparent IT governance approach enable your IT organization to satisfy the business by delivering commitments on time and within budget? Do you need measurements of your IT applications’ health cost and business value? Could key metrics improve decision making and help to communicate the value of IT? Would greater insight into current initiatives, resources, workload and new requests increase your ability to allocate and manage IT resources?

If the answer to these questions is an emphatic “yes,” you recognize the biggest challenges of aligning an IT organization with an organization’s business objectives. Compuware can help you do this effectively and efficiently with certified experts from our Professional Service Division’s IT Governance Practice.
Business depends on technology for survival, but a number of challenges stand in the way of delivering on business expectations.

• Perception of IT: The lack of relevant metrics impedes IT’s ability to communicate its true business value, support decision making, or respond to business opportunities. Without the ability to link the value of IT services to business objectives, IT is viewed as a cost center.
• Missed delivery dates and overspent budgets: Without structured processes, organizational discipline and transparent project reporting, an IT organization’s credibility suffers as it faces business dissatisfaction due to missed opportunities and projects that are late, come in over budget or fail to meet stakeholder expectations.
• Increased cost of “keeping the lights on”: In the absence of measures of inventory and business value, IT organizations continue to spend valuable resources and budgets to maintain aging and redundant systems rather than pursuing strategic business initiatives.
• No collective view of the demand for IT services: Most IT organizations break down teams by function, with each department creating disparate, redundant solutions to capture and manage demand. This results in IT making decisions based on incomplete and inconsistent information that increase the risk of investing in redundant or non-strategic work.

Compuware’s I.T. Governance Solutions
Compuware helps organizations align IT projects, applications and resources to help advance corporate objectives, resulting in better investment decisions, improved cost management, increased value to bottom line and increased understanding of the value of IT.  Compuware specializes in Governance Consulting, Portfolio processes, and Program/Project Leadership all designed to enhance your organization and help you to achieve your goals.