Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM)
Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM) is concerned with the connected enterprise. It is a management discipline that enables enterprises to understand themselves and develop a unified enterprise decision analysis and support system which ensures better decision making.
An EPM-based approach helps decision-makers gain a better understanding of how decisions affect all the moving parts that make up the connected enterprise. A portfolio-centric approach provides better visibility across the organization and serves to ensure that decision making is done in a controlled manner within the context of the business and its associated strategies.
Components
EPM is driven by six key Portfolios.
- Goals and Strategy Portfolio
- Investment Portfolio
- Business Architecture Portfolio
- Applications Portfolio
- Technology Portfolio
- Informationt Portfolio
How Kwezi Software Solutions fits into EPM
Kwezi Software Solutions enables enterprises to unlock the business value out of their connected enterprise, with key focus on aligning Business and IT to support the strategic direction of an enterprise.
Kwezi Software Solutions's Enterprise Portfolio Management offering is realised through industry leading solutions
Recognized Market Leader
Many businesses across industries face critical challenges, the most common being increased competition, rapidly changing business conditions, perpetual price pressure and increasing regulation.
Economic factors force businesses to seek new methods to remain sustainable and competitive. Kwezi Software Solutions has identified this need and formulated a solution.
In order for enterprises to maintain or improve their position they need to realise their goals and vision. Achieving this requires informed decisions about every facet of their business, from high-level strategy to managing investments in applications, IT Infrastructure and data. Understanding of the enterprises portfolios and relationships with multiple processes (IT and Non-IT) is essential.
Often organisations find it challenging to gain this understanding, mainly due to information from businesses portfolios being structured within silos as they have implemented different management systems to serve a variety of IT functions. Enterprise Portfolio Management frees this information from an organisation's current management systems and allows decision makers to analyse it in a dynamic way. This discipline helps businesses save money, reduce risk and increase business agility.
Gartner defines Portfolio Management as a shift from the practice of using a single integrated application for the support of business requirements to using a collection of applications, technologies and services to create a system that addresses the unique requirements of an organization and leverages best-of-breed opportunities.
Our selection of portfolios examined and analysed have a substantial track record of success. Organising data into these enterprise portfolios does not guarantee an organisation can reduce its costs, speed its entry into new markets or assure its regulatory compliance or business continuity. Rather, the proper analysis of these portfolios helps achieve all these goals by enabling more well-informed decisions that drive business value.
Kwezi Software Solutions enables enterprises to unlock the business value from within, focusing on aligning Business and IT to support the strategic direction of the enterprise. Our Enterprise Portfolio Management offering is realised through industry leading solutions.
Kwezi Software Solutions Service Offering
Business Analytics
Determine the business requirements for an EPM solution. Identify and highlight the areas for examination within the key portfolios that need to be addressed to satisfy these requirements. These are then translated into technical system requirements.
Evaluation
Review existing EPM implementations and recommend enhancements (where applicable) that are aligned with best practice solutions.
System Design
Design or customise functional front ends in which users can view, edit, update, create and delete components, properties and relationships as well as view reports. Select the most appropriate or customised reports to satisfy the requirements and provide clear business value.
Implementation
Develop or refine functional front end in which users can view, edit, update, create and delete components, properties and relationships as well as view reports. The solution also supports several applications for viewing reports. for example Mobile. Manage data grouped by portfolios as well as the relationships between the portfolios, and import and/or export data.
Project Management
Manage all phases and resourcing of the enterprise's EPM solution, either using KSS or the client's SDLC methodology. Fundamental to project success is the active involvement of the business community.
Maintenance
The ongoing maintenance evolvement and improvement of the EPM solution.