Comprehensive IT Portfolio Planning

Alignment with corporate strategy and internal customers is necessary to maximize the Return on IT.  Achieving such alignment requires visibility into IT portfolios, sophisticated risk-benefit analysis and robust scenario planning, all tied to delivery and monitoring systems.  Clarity brings these elements together in one seamless, readily accessible system, making IT governance possible in a natural, easy-to-support manner.

Define the Portfolios
Setting a course works best when the starting point is known.  Clarity makes it easy to model all of the various IT portfolios - applications, hardware and network assets, projects and resources.  Further, Clarity provides broadly deployable business processes for capturing and reviewing new ideas and proposed additions to these portfolios.

Select the Optimal Investments
Clarity allows easy analysis of IT portfolios by risk, cost, benefit, business line, alignment, goal or any other criteria.  Asset allocation insights emerge from this process, supporting rebalancing of funds among different investment types.  Upon inspection monies allocated to maintenance activities can often be freed for higher value initiatives.

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IT Portfolio Management:  cost, benefit, risk and alignment relationships are easily
visualized through bubble charts, whether the portfolio includes applications, hardware
and network assets, or projects. 

Use Scenario Planning to Maximize Return on IT
The rich scenario planning capabilities in Clarity enable governance committees to perform in depth "what if" analyses that examine the impact of different strategies on financial results, resource utilization, project planning and other variables.  Visualized through efficient frontier graphing, optimal investment combinations become clear.  Further, Clarity goes beyond financial planning to include resource and project planning, ensuring that the affordable is also feasible.

Connect the Plan to Delivery Capabilities
Plan development in Clarity benefits from real-time capacity planning, project tracking and accounting, along with XML connections to development and monitoring systems.  This results in higher quality plans that are seamlessly connected to the delivery capabilities in Clarity, from which superior Return on IT can be expected.

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Portfolio Analysis:  visualization of the full IT lifecycle and investment allocations
confirms that the IT budget is properly aligned with top priorities.