Software Portfolio Overview
The Software Portfolio Overview report offers a strategic view of the organization’s software landscape. It provides actionable insights into software installations, lifecycle management, trends, and organizational alignment. This report empowers you to manage risks, optimize software investments, and align software portfolios with business objectives.
The key features of the report include :
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Customizable Views—Provides flexibility to explore software data using relevant metrics and dimensions. |
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Lifecycle Insights—Provides detailed understanding of installation currency and risks by lifecycle stage. |
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High-Level Trends— Presents visibility into software lifecycle trends over various time frames. |
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Organizational Context—Links software data to business services, business units, cost centers, and locations for informed decision-making. |
The Value of the Software Portfolio Overview Report
This report helps you to:
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Streamline Software Portfolio Management—Proactively address software risks and align portfolios with lifecycle stages. |
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Monitor Trends and Forecast—Use historical and trend data to predict software needs and risks. |
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Optimize Investments—Identify areas of sprawl or inefficiency to streamline software expenditures. |
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Align with Business Goals—Map software currency to organizational structures for better strategic alignment. |
By combining high-level overviews with customizable views and lifecycle trends, the Software Portfolio Overview report enables data-driven decision-making to enhance software portfolio efficiency and alignment with business objectives.
Software Portfolio Overview Report Pages
This report includes the following pages:
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Software Summary
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This page includes the following details:
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Customizable Axes—Allows choosing X and Y axes (for example, installs by category) for tailored visualizations. |
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Installation Currency—Highlights installs grouped by lifecycle stage (for example, End of Life, Obsolete, and more). |
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Obsolete Installs by Manufacturer—Identifies manufacturers with the most obsolete software installations. |
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Software Currency Risk by Category—Identifies software categories with the highest currency risks. |
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Domain Statistics—Presents a breakdown of software statistics by domain. |
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Software Lifecycle
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Installation Currency—Tracks lifecycle stages across software installations. |
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Obsolete Software Reasons—Explains reasons for unknown lifecycle statuses. |
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Lifecycle Currency by Installs—Monitors currency risks for software installations over time. |
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High-Level Lifecycle Stats— Summarizes technology currency risks by software category. |
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Software Statistics
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Customizable Aggregates— Provides a flexible page where you can choose fields and measures to view high-level aggregate data. |
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Software Trends
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Lifecycle Trends—Tracks lifecycle trends over the last 7 days, weekly, and monthly for obsolete and end of life software. |
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Organization Statistics
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Business Services and Units—Maps software lifecycle data to business services and units. |
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Cost Center Analysis—Provides lifecycle statistics by cost centers for budgetary insights. |
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Location-Wise Data—Visualizes software lifecycle statuses geographically for regional insights. |
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