Application Portfolio

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What Does Application Portfolio Mean?

Application portfolio refers to an organization’s collection of software applications and software-based services, which it uses to attain its goals or objectives. Managing these resources is often referred to as application portfolio management (APM).

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Techopedia Explains Application Portfolio

An enterprise’s application portfolio may be a significant determinant of its profitability. The enterprise personnel’s level of familiarity and expertise with the applications as well as the creation of new technologies (or the obsolescence of present ones) can all contribute to or detract from an enterprise’s bottom line.

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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.