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Application Portfolio Advisor

The Application Portfolio Advisor is Txture's central management area for creating and maintaining visibility into your entire application portfolio and identifying optimization and modernization opportunities.

At its core, the Application Portfolio Advisor combines the disciplines of Enterprise Architecture Management with FinOps, GreenOps and Cloud Modernization. This module is designed to help organizations continuously prioritize optimization opportunities by identifying areas of risk and technical obsolescence, highlighting candidates for application rationalization, and providing actionable recommendations for improvements to reduce costs, minimize your carbon footprint, or unlock technology performance gains.

Similar to the Transformation Cockpit, the Application Portfolio Advisor has a global view and an application-specific view. Selecting an application from the vertical left sidebar filters all reports for that application and closely related assets, we call this view Application Mode.

The horizontal navigation bar at the top of the Application Portfolio Advisor provides the main contextual navigation, allowing you to view your application or entire portfolio from different angles.

The navigation bar​

The main navigation bar provides multiple perspectives for analyzing your application portfolio.

  • Summary
    The Summary page helps maintain high data quality by actively highlighting issues such as duplicate assets and tracking recent modifications. In Application Mode, you can view all data gathered for a specific application, ensuring you have a comprehensive understanding of its status.
  • Insights
    The Insights section offers a broad overview of the optimization potential within your entire application portfolio. It features a quadrant chart based on the principles of Gartner's TIME analysis, which allows you to analyze the technical and functional fit of your applications. This analysis helps you identify where to focus your optimization efforts.
  • Technology/Cloud
    In the Technology/Cloud section, you can examine your applications from a technological perspective. This view enables you to discover opportunities for significant performance improvements and assess risk factors, such as end of life technologies.
  • GreenOps
    The GreenOps section allows you to evaluate the environmental impact of your applications. Here, you can analyze the current carbon footprints of your applications, identify those with the highest emissions, and determine which applications offer the greatest potential for carbon savings.
  • FinOps
    By applying a financial lens in the FinOps section, you can identify which applications have the highest associated costs and understand the reasons behind these costs. This analysis will help you pinpoint applications that present the most substantial cost-saving potential.

Transitioning to the Transformation Cockpit​

Once you have identified one or several candidates for migration, you can seamlessly transition to the Transformation Cockpit in Txture. This feature allows you to view detailed Cloud Proposals based on the application stack data that has been previously collected.