Optimize your application portfolio with cost insights

To support the rationalization initiatives that many organizations worldwide are currently focusing on, we have added structured application total cost of ownership (TCO) tracking to your workspace. This helps you to gain visibility into TCO, to identify high-cost areas, and to prioritize rationalization candidates in order to reduce spend in alignment with IT and business goals. The following added capabilities enable you to capture the allocation of costs, view their breakdowns by organization or business capability, and directly monitor TCO evolution in the executive dashboard:

• An optional meta model extension that can be activated in the administration area, extending the application fact sheet to capture licensing, maintenance, and support costs in a consistent and structured way.

• Automatic aggregation of the above inputs into an application's TCO using preconfigured calculations that can be adapted to reflect your organization's cost model. Similarly, two preconfigured and adaptable calculations automatically allocate the application TCO to the related business capabilities and organizations.

• Enhanced landscape report settings to allocate selected costs by clusters (e.g., per business capability or organizational unit), helping to identify high-cost areas. These are directly visible in two new pre-configured reports, the "Application Total Cost of Ownership per Business Capability" landscape report and the "Application Total Cost of Ownership and TIME Classification" landscape report.

• Cost evolution KPIs in the architecture executive dashboard to give IT and business leaders a real-time view of total IT spending, savings progress, and investment alignment across the portfolio (e.g., the application TCO, maintenance/support/licensing cost, and their share of the TCO).

Together, these capabilities provide the visibility and control needed to connect architecture decisions with financial outcomes, empowering teams to manage and reduce costs and accelerate innovation and transformation.