Application portfolio explorer
Connect application spending to business value and the systems around it.
FICTIONAL APPLICATION PORTFOLIO
See the decision behind the inventory.
Explore six original examples. Select an application to see its costs, ownership, dependencies and a starting recommendation.
Showing 6 of 6 applications. Totals reflect the current filters.
Plant Scheduler
Production planning and shop-floor scheduling.
- Business owner
- Plant Operations
- Active users
- 35
- Business value
- 5 / 5
- Technical fit
- 2 / 5
- Criticality
- Business-critical
- Annual operating cost
- $72,000
STARTING RECOMMENDATION
Modernize candidate
Technical fit 2/5 calls for modernization while preserving business value 5/5. Compare upgrade and replacement after mapping dependencies.
Evidence in this example
- Production planning makes this application business-critical.
- An aging runtime and manual interfaces limit technical fit.
Annual cost breakdown
- Licenses
- $36,000
- Hosting
- $24,000
- Support effort
- $12,000
Annual USD estimates. Support is allocated staff effort, not necessarily avoidable cash expense.
Connected applications
Depends on
Applications that depend on it
No downstream applications shown.
Connections open the linked application and clear filters. This example shows application dependencies only; infrastructure and hidden integrations still need discovery.
Before making the change
- Map order and identity integrations before design.
- Compare upgrade and replacement with plant owners.
- Pilot a parallel schedule and test rollback before cutover.
How the recommendations work
These are transparent example rules, not automatic approvals. Low value (1–2), at most 10 users and supporting criticality flag a retirement candidate. Otherwise, recorded overlap flags consolidation; technical fit of 1–2 flags modernization; remaining examples are retained for review. The first matching rule wins.
Business value · 1 to 5
1: limited current use · 2: localized support · 3: useful team process · 4: broad operational value · 5: essential business process.
Technical fit · 1 to 5
1: unsupported · 2: aging with significant gaps · 3: adequate with known issues · 4: supported and meets needs · 5: strong fit with verified resilience.
Cost is not a savings forecast. Contracts, shared services, data retention, change effort and replacement costs affect what can be removed. Validate the inventory and decisions with business, finance and technology owners.
All organizations, applications, roles, scores and costs here are fictional. They do not describe KAISAN clients, employers or Ricky’s historical results. Selections stay in this page and reset on reload.