Business Solution · Application portfolio & spend review

See where your technology budget goes, application by application.

Record owner, annual run cost, lifecycle phase, and fit scores for each application. Scapius compiles them into a portfolio dashboard with TIME dispositions, so reviews start from the model instead of a spreadsheet.

Why this is hard today

Duplicate tools, unmanaged licenses, and aging systems inflate IT run costs when business value, technical fit, and lifecycle dates are scattered across out-of-date spreadsheets.

Scapius Built-in Workspace Dashboard showing executive metric tiers, TIME distribution, and portfolio quadrant.

Scapius Built-in Workspace Dashboard compiling portfolio run spend, TIME quadrants (Invest, Tolerate, Migrate, Eliminate), and health indicators.Enlarge

Why the portfolio dashboard brings clarity

Portfolio overview

Get a confident overview of all your applications, recorded owners, and annual costs.

Investment direction

Know where to increase investment and which applications can be phased out using Gartner TIME quadrants.

Modernization targets

Spotlight high-business-value systems with low technical fitness as justified candidates for replacement.

Decisions enabled

Decisions informed by this model

Direct model queries replace subjective opinions with objective architecture evidence for leadership discussions.

Cost & ownership clarity

Surfaces recorded annual run costs and ownership across Tier-1 and Tier-2 systems.

Retirement justification

Provides structured evidence to evaluate retiring redundant systems and unmanaged licenses.

Budget alignment

Aligns engineering and finance on planned decommissioning milestones before budget cycles.

Key review question

“Which systems in the 'Migrate' or 'Eliminate' categories account for the largest share of our annual run spend?”

How your architects maintain it

Defined as clear, structured text

Every system and application captures owner, annual run cost, lifecycle phases, and business value/technical fit scores. The Scapius compiler aggregates these into an executive dashboard and portfolio quadrant with zero manual report assembly.

application/systems.ea

DSL

system system_core_banking "Core Banking Platform" {
    owner "Core Banking Operations"
    criticality "Mission-Critical"
    time "Migrate"
    cost {
        amount 1200000
        unit year
    }
    score {
        business_value 9.0
        tech_fit 4.5
    }
    lifecycle {
        phase Run start "2010-01-01" end "2026-12-31"
        phase Retire start "2027-01-01"
    }
}