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Managing Service and Asset Portfolios

In Planview Enterprise 12 to 14, contact your Planview representative regarding managing services and assets as you do other types of outcomes. In addition, contact your Planview representative if you are interested in learning specifics about our Enterprise Architecture solution.

For information on service portfolio management in Planview Enterprise 11.5, see the Getting Started Guide for Planview Enterprise 11.4, Service Portfolio Management Guide for Planview Enterprise 11.4, and the Administrator Guide for Planview Enterprise 11.4.

Summary

Service and asset portfolio management is a powerful, but often overlooked method of gaining visibility, alignment, and control over an organization’s internal services, software applications, and other assets. 

Services and Assets

In order for a business to operate, employees follow business processes, which are supported by information (i.e. reports, dashboards and other output that enables business decisions). To provide this information, and to facilitate effective business processes, Information Technology departments provide:

  • Business Services (i.e. ongoing services and support that keeps the underlying technology running); and
  • Applications (software application that businesses use to execute their processes)

Applications can be considered soft assets to an organization. While not a physical product, it still is a tangible producer of value, and typically has an annual budget and assigned resources to support it.  Behind all this is the underlying IT infrastructure. The hardware components of the infrastructure are considered hard assets. Again, there is a budget for this, and there are associated services and costs to maintain it.

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