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    Ongoing APM governance delivered as a managed service — without the cost of building a full internal capability.

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    Is Your Application Portfolio Managing You?
    • Do you lack a complete, current inventory of the applications running across your organization?
    • Are licensing and support costs rising without clear evidence of business value delivered?
    • Are aging or unsupported systems creating security exposure your team cannot fully track?
    • Do modernization decisions get made on assumption rather than structured portfolio analysis?
    • Does your application inventory go stale between audits, leaving leadership without reliable answers?
    • Do you need APM capability but cannot justify hiring a dedicated team to maintain it?
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    APM Only Works When It Is Running Continuously

    Sustaining a mature APM function requires more than a database of applications. It requires:

    • Consistent lifecycle classification — Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, or Eliminate
    • Clear application ownership and accountabilities that stay current
    • Regular dependency mapping tied to business capabilities
    • Portfolio data that feeds real investment and retirement decisions
    • A structured process for onboarding new applications and retiring obsolete ones
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    What Is a Fractional Application Portfolio Manager?

    A Fractional
    Application Portfolio Manager is an experienced application leader who performs the APM function on a part-time or contractual basis, rather than as a full-time internal hire.

    You get the leadership, structure, and follow-through needed to keep your application landscape aligned to strategy and delivery, without adding permanent headcount.

    Benefits of Application Portfolio Management as a Service

    When you partner with CloseReach, you get operational architecture leadership designed to keep decisions consistent, delivery aligned, and your architecture repository usable.

    • Reduce Cost Without the Overhead: Access senior APM capability without the cost of hiring a dedicated team. Identify redundant applications, consolidate licensing, and reduce maintenance spend with structured analysis rather than guesswork.
    • Always-Current Portfolio Visibility: A stale application inventory is not useful. APMaaS keeps your portfolio data current so that leaders making budget, modernization, and vendor decisions have information they can trust.
    • Reduce Technology Risk: Unsupported and aging systems create security exposure that compounds over time. Continuous lifecycle tracking ensures vulnerabilities and end-of-life risks are surfaced before they become incidents.
    • Clearer Governance and Ownership: Every application has an owner, a lifecycle status, and a business justification. That clarity accelerates compliance reviews, audit responses, and procurement decisions.
    • Scalable to Your Modernization Cycle: APMaaS can scale up during major rationalization programs, cloud migrations, or M&A integration work, and scale back to steady-state maintenance once those initiatives complete.
    • Independent, Evidence-Based Analysis: CloseReach brings third-party objectivity to portfolio decisions — Invest, Migrate, Tolerate, or Eliminate — so that recommendations are driven by data and business alignment, not internal politics.
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    Choose Your Coverage Level

    Full APM Function Management: We run the end-to-end APM operating model — inventory governance, lifecycle classification, dependency mapping, and executive reporting — with your approvals at defined decision points.

    Fractional APM Lead: We provide the APM leadership function on a part-time basis, including governance structure, standards, Gartner® TIME classification, and reporting to IT leadership and the CIO.

    Co-Managed APM: Your team owns the function; we drive cadence, portfolio reviews, lifecycle decisions, and repository discipline to keep the program running between internal capacity constraints.

    Targeted APM Components: We take ownership of specific deliverables: application inventory buildout, business capability mapping, lifecycle classification workshops, TCO and ROI analysis, or rationalization reporting.

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    Frequently Asked Questions About APM as a Service

    A one-time audit produces a point-in-time inventory and a set of recommendations. APMaaS is an ongoing service that keeps the inventory current, maintains lifecycle classifications as conditions change, and continuously feeds decision-quality data to IT planning, budgeting, and governance processes. The audit tells you where you are. APMaaS keeps you from reverting.

    Not necessarily. We can run the function, co-manage with your team, or manage specific modules such as governance, roadmaps, and portfolio decisions.

    We establish a predictable cadence for reviews, reporting, and decision-making so architecture stays aligned to business priorities and delivery realities.

    Yes. APMaaS is designed to scale for modernization, cloud programs, mergers, or portfolio rationalization waves.