For the Application Portfolio Manager
Right applications. Lower cost. Less risk. More value.
Complete visibility of your application landscape, so you can rationalise, reduce technical debt and invest in the right capabilities for the future.
Reduction in application spend
-22%
Legacy CRM retirement approved
Full lineage captured · Application Portfolio Manager
15 to 30%
reduction in application spend
$15M+
in average annual savings identified
20 to 40%
fewer redundant or low-value applications
The challenge
You know these walls.
Portfolio sprawl
Too many applications, too much complexity.
Cost without visibility
High cost with limited visibility of value.
Rising technical debt
Technical debt and vendor risk are rising.
The case for change
It is hard to make the case for change and funding.
Complete visibility
See every application, its purpose, costs, owners, risks and relationships.
- Bring stakeholders together with one trusted source of truth
- Lifecycle and security risk surfaced early
- Data no longer scattered across tools and teams
Smarter rationalisation
Identify duplicates, low-value and redundant apps with confidence.
- Rationalisation opportunities quantified
- Prioritise investments that improve capability, performance and outcomes
- Rationalise, consolidate, modernise or retire with clarity
Reduce cost
Optimise spend, negotiate better and eliminate waste.
- Proactively manage lifecycle, security, compliance and vendor risk
- Contract expiries and renewals tracked live
- Make the case for change and funding with evidence
“AlignX finally gives us the visibility and confidence to rationalise our portfolio and invest where it matters most.”
Application Portfolio Manager, Australian Government Agency
What Application Portfolio Managers ask us.
What APM, EA and CMDB tools does AlignX replace or integrate with?
AlignX replaces standalone APM tools (LeanIX APM and similar), consolidates the APM and EA disciplines into one platform, and integrates with your CMDB (ServiceNow and Jira Service Management) for CI-level data. You get application, capability, risk, cost and lifecycle context in one place, drawing from the systems that already own the raw data.
Does moving to AlignX let us retire our standalone APM and EA tool?
For most organisations, yes. AlignX handles the full application portfolio lifecycle plus enterprise architecture in one platform. Standalone APM and EA tool licences (typically 80k to 400k AUD combined) come out of the estate. Consolidation usually funds the AlignX platform on its own.
How does AlignX help me rationalise a portfolio when no one owns half the applications?
Every application gets a record with owner, business criticality, cost, risk and lifecycle stage, sourced from CMDB, SSO logs and finance data. Where ownership is unclear, AlignX flags it and runs a discovery workflow to nominate an owner. Orphans stop being invisible.
Can I run TIME (Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, Eliminate) or 6R assessments in AlignX?
Yes, both natively. You can also run custom assessment frameworks. Assessments produce a portfolio disposition view that feeds directly into investment decisions and the delivery portfolio, so a "Migrate" decision becomes an actual project, not a sticky note.
How does AlignX handle application cost, risk and business value in one view?
Cost from finance, risk from your risk register, business value from the capabilities each app supports, all on the same record. You can view the portfolio by any of them, or by combinations (high cost, low value, high risk). This is the view that gets rationalisation decisions made.
What does the APM lifecycle look like in AlignX?
Every app has a lifecycle state (invest, tolerate, migrate, eliminate, retire) with target dates, owner, dependencies and business case. Transitions are governed. Retirement is planned, tracked and evidenced, so you can actually prove the sunset happened.
How do I connect application decisions to the projects that will actually retire them?
A "Retire this app" disposition creates or links to the delivery initiative, with owner, budget and target date. The application record shows retirement progress live. You stop discovering "we still pay for that" three years after the decision.
See where you stand.
Ten minutes, twenty-one questions, an instant maturity score and your Fragmentation Index.