AlignX
Book a demo

For the CIO

Lead with complete context. Every decision connected.

Strategy, investment, architecture, risk, vendors and delivery in one model inside your Microsoft tenant, so the board reads the record and not the deck.

Book a 20-minute demoSee the platform

In one sentence

AlignX gives the CIO one connected model of strategy, investment, architecture, risk, vendors and delivery, inside the Microsoft 365 tenant the organisation already runs.

Written forChief Information OfficerChief Digital Officer

The challenge

The questions the board will ask you.

  1. Are we spending technology money on the right things, and what should we stop funding?
  2. Which strategic outcomes depend on technology?
  3. Are we getting value from what we already own, or paying twice for the same capability?
  4. What technology is reaching end of support, and what happens if we defer?
  5. Are our major programmes going to deliver, and which need intervention?
  6. How quickly could we detect, contain and recover from a serious cyberattack?

If any of these takes a week to answer, the rest of this page is for you.

The solution

What the board asks the CIO for.

Application estate

Every application, with its state, its TIME call and what it is critical to.

One register of what you run: lifecycle, tolerate-invest-migrate-eliminate, criticality, owner. Not a spreadsheet someone rebuilt in March.

See the architecture product

Scenario workbench

See what a commitment costs before you make it.

Branch the ranked cohort against the envelope, see where the money and the people run out, then promote one scenario to the plan of record.

See the portfolio product

Strategy to outcome

From the strategy to the key result that is at risk, one line.

Plan, focus area, objective, key result. Each one a record, each one weighted, so an amber on the board traces to the check-in that made it amber.

See how it works

Technology roadmap

Every investment on one timeline, by programme, with today marked.

Thirteen investments across four programme lanes to FY28, coloured by the life each is in, with a diamond where it goes live. What is coming and what is late, without assembling anything.

See the portfolio product

Control state

Thirty controls on one system, each with the state it is really in.

Sign-in anomalies reviewed within one business day: implemented. Incident response exercised annually: partially. Recovery tested against the documented objective: not implemented. The board question answered without a rehearsal.

See the GRC product

Day to day

What changes.

Without AlignXWith AlignX
The board packAssembled from six systems over two weeks, out of date by the meeting.
The board packA dashboard on the record, opened live in the room.
The investment committeeCases argued from decks; capacity and architecture are someone else's problem.
The investment committeeThe scored cohort, the scenario against the envelope, the impact on the estate, in one view.
The architecture questionSomeone asks what a change touches. The answer takes a fortnight.
The architecture questionThe impact is on the record before the decision is made.
The auditA month of gathering evidence from inboxes and shared drives.
The auditThe assessment already holds the evidence, hashed and dated.
The reprioritisationPriorities move and the original rationale goes with them.
The reprioritisationThe decision record keeps what it was decided on.
The renewal nobody sawA contract auto-renews because the notice date lived in a document.
The renewal nobody sawRenewals surface on the decision date, with the systems that depend on them.

The AlignX technology

Nothing new to govern.

  • Runs inside Microsoft 365In your tenant, on your Dataverse. Nothing leaves it.
  • Entra ID governs who sees whatThe roles you already run decide access. No second directory.
  • Australian data residencyYour Dataverse environment sits in an Australian region. Purview and retention policies apply as they do everywhere else.

How AlignX sits inside Microsoft 365

Questions

What CIOs ask us.

What tools does AlignX replace, and what stays in my estate?

AlignX replaces your PPM (Planview, Clarity, MS Project, ServiceNow SPM), your EA tool (LeanIX, Ardoq, Sparx, Bizzdesign), and in most cases your standalone APM and vendor risk tools. It integrates with the tools that stay: ITSM, CMDB, Jira, finance, HR and identity. One platform where you had three to five.

What is the total cost of ownership story once we consolidate?

PPM, EA and GRC consolidate into one licence. The bigger saving is people time: fewer integrations to build, fewer reports to reconcile, fewer training curves. Because AlignX runs inside your Microsoft Power Platform environment with Entra ID, there is no separate identity, hosting or infrastructure cost.

How is AlignX different from another PPM that ends up as a status factory?

PPM captures what teams did. AlignX connects that to strategy above, and architecture, risk and resourcing beside it, so the portfolio view is decision-ready. You approve, reprioritise and rebalance in AlignX. Execution stays in Jira or wherever your teams work.

Can I forecast portfolio outcomes with AlignX, or only report them?

Forecast. Resource commitments, risk exposure, architecture dependencies and financial burn run against a live model. You can scenario test what happens to Q3 if you pull forward the cloud migration before you commit.

How do we roll this out without an 18-month platform programme?

Standard rollout is 8 to 12 weeks to a working enterprise model, starting with the highest-leverage domain for your organisation. Tool consolidation happens in waves over the next two to three quarters. No big bang, no separate identity build.

Where does AlignX fit next to Copilot, Power BI and our Microsoft investment?

AlignX maximises the Microsoft investment you already have. Copilot reasons over connected enterprise data instead of fragments. Power BI dashboards run off one source of truth instead of six. Because AlignX is built inside Microsoft 365 and the Power Platform, integration is native, not bolt-on.

What does AlignX do that a standard SPM or PPM tool cannot?

AlignX is enterprise alignment plus architecture plus risk plus vendor plus resource, in one model. Standalone SPM and PPM tools stop at portfolio. AlignX connects portfolio decisions to the architecture they change, the risks they carry, the vendors they depend on and the capacity they consume.

See where you stand.

Ten minutes, twenty-one questions, an instant maturity score.

Book a 20-minute demoSee the platform