Solutions
Real-world challenges that APM+ helps IT leaders solve every day.
Obsolescence & Cyber Risk Management
The Problem: Vendors retire products on their schedule, not yours. When mainstream support ends, fixes slow down. When extended support ends, they stop. A component past end of support is a vulnerability that will never be patched, and too often it's an auditor, a penetration tester or an attacker who finds it first. Spreadsheets don't send reminders, so the upgrade arrives as an emergency, or as an extended-support invoice nobody budgeted for.
How APM+ Solves It:
- Nightly Obsolescence Scan: Every application's product and tech-stack components (operating systems, databases, runtimes, middleware) are checked each night against vendor mainstream, extended and sustaining support dates from our end-of-life database.
- Alerts With Real Lead Time: Your admins are alerted 12, 6, 3 and 1 month before each support milestone, and again when it lapses. That's time to plan and fund the upgrade, not scramble for it.
- The Accountable Owner Is Told: Optionally email each application's Business Owner about the components their applications depend on, so the decision lands with the person who owns it.
- Know the Blast Radius: Every component is ranked by risk and shows exactly which applications depend on it, and how many of them are business-critical. Export the list for your risk register or audit pack.
- See Two Years Ahead: A quarter-by-quarter view of upcoming support milestones shows when the upgrade waves will hit, so modernisation and cloud migration can be sequenced and budgeted in advance.
The Outcome: No surprise upgrade projects, no unbudgeted extended-support fees, and no unpatched components quietly running your most critical systems.
Application Rationalisation & Cost Optimisation
The Problem: Over time, organisations accumulate "software bloat." Departments buy duplicate tools, shadow IT runs rampant, and millions of dollars are wasted on underutilised licences.
How APM+ Solves It:
- Spot Redundancies Instantly: Group applications by business capability to immediately expose where you are paying for three different tools that do the exact same thing.
- TCO Benchmarking: Capture the true Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for every application, giving you the hard data needed to justify retiring legacy systems.
- Survey the Business: Use our automated user surveys to find out if an expensive application is actually being used—and loved—by the people on the ground.
The Outcome: Slash IT spending by decisively retiring, consolidating, or renegotiating software contracts.
Business & IT Alignment
The Problem: The business side often views IT as a "black box" cost centre. When budgets are tight, it is incredibly difficult for IT leaders to prove the business value of their technology stack.
How APM+ Solves It:
- Capability Realisation Mapping: Visually link every single application in your portfolio directly to the business capabilities it supports (e.g., "HR Onboarding," "Order Processing," "Customer Retention").
- Expose Critical Gaps: Easily identify strategic business initiatives that are critically under-supported by your current technology.
- Speak the Board's Language: Move conversations away from server costs and software updates, and toward business value and strategic enablement.
The Outcome: Transform IT into a strategic partner. Give the C-suite and the Board a clear, objective view of how technology investments are driving the business forward.
Post-Merger IT Integration (M&A)
The Problem: When two companies merge, their tech stacks collide. IT is tasked with figuring out which systems to keep, which to kill, and how to combine them without disrupting operations.
How APM+ Solves It:
- Rapid Onboarding: Use our pre-built templates and Excel import wizards to ingest the acquired company's portfolio in minutes.
- Side-by-Side Comparison: Objectively score and compare competing applications from both companies based on cost, health, and strategic fit.
- Accelerate Synergies: Quickly identify the easiest applications to retire to deliver immediate cost savings to the newly formed business.
The Outcome: Turn years of post-merger IT chaos into a structured, data-driven consolidation project that delivers ROI fast.
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