Business Value of the IT Application Portfolio ...

Under constant pressure to cut costs? Managing a portfolio of existing applications? Enhancing, upgrading, or sustaining these applications? Struggling to describe the value of applications that run-the-business? The Application Investment Management (AIM) framework looks interesting. Sheldon Monteiro, Sapient, discusses the AIM Framework which is used to understand, leverage and rationalize the existing information technology assets through understanding value of the application portfolio. The methodology looks for opportunities for reuse, imbalance in IT investments, and areas for strategic focus. It is compatible and complementary with other management frameworks, such as ITIL. ...

... " While ITIL places emphasis on understanding service costs, AIM builds on this foundation by exposing business benefits associated with applications, for an overall understanding of application portfolio value. " ...

Business Value of the IT Application Portfolio: Via IT Business Edge: Taking AIM at IT/Business Alignment ...

Maps for Apps: Via IT Business Edge: "Consulting firm Sapient Corp.'s Application Investment Management (AIM) framework differs from portfolio management in one key respect; AIM focuses on existing applications, rather than trying to evaluate future investments as portfolio management does. "

Maps for Apps: Via CFO: "AIM is best suited for large, complex, global organizations that spend tens of millions of dollars (or more) on IT; have gone through a fair amount of mergers and acquisitions; or rely on dozens of enterprise resource planning, human-resource, or E-mail systems. Such organizations usually have several dozen, hundreds, or even thousands of applications and complex business processes that span many product lines and geographies. "

I would have added references from Sapient's website, but, for an internet consultancy, it has the slowest website in this hemisphere ... ;-)