Central Visibility Into a Complex Application Landscape
The Overview
Client:
FirstRand Group
Industry:
Banking and Financial Services
FirstRand Group is one of South Africa’s largest financial services groups, operating a large and complex application landscape spanning hundreds of systems across multiple business units.
Anylytical Technologies partnered with FirstRand to build a central platform giving executives, architects and governance teams a single source of truth for enterprise technology management.
The Challenge
FirstRand operated a large and complex application landscape consisting of hundreds of systems distributed across multiple business units. Senior executives, architects, technology leaders, and governance teams required greater visibility into application ownership, technology architecture, vendor relationships, operational costs, budget allocations, technical dependencies, business impact, and application lifecycle information. Without a centralised source of information, decision-making around investments, modernisation initiatives, and risk management was difficult and time-consuming.
The Solution
Anylytical Technologies designed and developed an Enterprise Application Portfolio Management Platform that provided a central repository for technology and application information across the group. The platform enabled stakeholders to access application inventories, technology architecture information, budget and cost allocation data, vendor and supplier information, application ownership and accountability, dependency mapping, technology risk visibility, and strategic reporting and dashboards, creating a single source of truth for enterprise technology management and governance.
Business Impact
- Improved executive decision-making
- Increased visibility across the application landscape
- Better management of technology investments
- Enhanced governance and compliance
- Improved risk management
- More effective technology planning and rationalisation
Technologies
- Enterprise Architecture Platforms
- Application Portfolio Management
- Business Capability Modelling
- Service Catalogue Management
- Executive Dashboards and Reporting
- Enterprise Data Management
- Governance and Compliance Frameworks
Services Delivered
- Business Analysis
- Enterprise Architecture Consulting
- Solution Architecture
- Software Development
- Data Modelling
- Reporting and Analytics
- Systems Integration
- Testing and Deployment