The Technology Community and its related application landscape appear to evolve organically in every fast-paced company. Implementation departments are concentrated on execution, mergers arise and point strategies are adopted as stop-gaps to satisfy the company's ever-changing demands. You are at risk of not being able to grasp the application environment and where the related risks lay if measures are not in place to monitor any of this.
If management asked the question, "What are our most critical apps? Would you even have the term critical definition? This obviously illustrates the need to understand your application landscape deeper and to identify what is important and to whom in a quantitative way.
For all key value chain processes, applications are integral. They make it easier for organizations to work together, be more efficient and improve operating productivity.