Improved Enterprise Architecture (EA), Business Processes (BP) and Application Programming Interface (API) Management is critical for empowering government organizations to deliver products and services cost-effectively and securely in this digital age.
Government agencies need more visibility into their application environment to understand and reduce their business risks and improve enterprise performance. However, it’s often difficult for agencies to execute an effective application rationalization program for a variety of reasons, whether it’s because of manual application inventory management processes, competing business priorities or resistance to change within…
Twenty years ago, technology was well established in government agencies, but the IT team itself was often disconnected from the agency mission. Today, much of the modernization that is being planned (or is already underway) in agencies revolves around IT because technology is extremely essential to how organizations operate. Technology is at the center…
With federal mandates around technology business management (TBM), FITARA, DODAF and other frameworks, it’s now more important than ever for federal agencies to gain complete visibility and control over their enterprise architecture and application portfolios. Better enterprise architecture management can reduce organizational risks and technology costs. It also fosters greater collaboration between the business and…
WashingtonExec writer, Amanda Ziadeh, spoke with Ian Thompson, Federal Civilian Vice President of Software AG Government Solutions, and discussed the current objectives driving federal agencies to manage and understand their application portfolios. During the interview, they considered some of the challenges that agencies face in their application rationalization initiative, how successful federal agencies have started…
WashingtonExec’s Amanda Ziadeh sits down with Ian Thompson, vice president of federal civilian for Software AG Government Solutions, to discuss the current objectives driving federal agencies to organize and understand their application portfolios. Thompson also shares some of the challenges agencies face in their application rationalization initiative, how successful federal agencies have started the process…
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Enterprise Architecture as a practice is well understood by IT teams due to well-understood categorization models for tracking and managing assets.
Application Rationalization is a top use case for Federal Enterprise Architecture teams. Successful App Rationalization efforts require a good strategy and the ability to make targeted choices when determining which systems to sunset.