A Real-World Success Story: The World Bank Group Delivers Increased Business Value with Application Portfolio Management

In order to help the World Bank Group achieve its goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity worldwide, the enterprise architecture group needed a solution for managing its applications portfolio. They lacked a single, full list of all applications, and had no way to manage its assets. The lack of awareness of which applications were a justifiable investment meant that business leaders were unable to make informed decisions about them. Planview’s solution for capability and technology management was implemented by Abduljabbar and his team, allowing them to eliminate manual efforts, and store and maintain application information in one place. With the solution now being the system of record for the World Bank, the automation saved significant time, and brought accountability to the application documentation process. The solution also allowed business leaders to make better investment decisions, with questions such as what business or IT capability will the application support? Does the application help us gain a competitive advantage? being answered. The World Bank Group now relies on Planview’s capability and technology management solution to collect, manage, and maintain its inventory into a single, trusted source of record.