A. Business Application Portfolio
Business Apps – core business capability and line-of-business systems
- ERP – e.g. SAP S/4HANA, Oracle ERP Cloud, Microsoft Dynamics Finance, Unit4 Business World
- CRM – e.g. Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, SAP CX
- HR/HCM – e.g. Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM, Youforce
- Finance – e.g. Oracle Financials, SAP Finance, Unit4 Financials
- Procurement – e.g. SAP Ariba, Coupa, Ivalua
- Industry Apps – e.g. nCino, FIS
- Reporting/Analytics – e.g. Power BI, Tableau, Qlik
UX / Experience Layer – frontends, portals and interaction channels
- Portals – e.g. ServiceNow Portal, Liferay
- Web Frontends – e.g. React, Angular, Vue
- Mobile Frontends – e.g. native iOS/Android, low-code mobile
- Case UI – e.g. ServiceNow Workspace
- Engagement – e.g. Dialogflow, Cognigy, Microsoft Copilot
B. Technical Application Portfolio
Technical Platforms – shared platforms enabling integration, data, identity and delivery
Integration – data movement and cross-system connectivity
- ETL/ELT – e.g. Informatica, Talend, Matillion
- iPaaS – e.g. MuleSoft, Boomi, Workato
API Mgmt – expose, secure and manage APIs
- Gateways – e.g. Apigee, Kong, IBM API Connect
- Portals – e.g. Postman, SwaggerHub
Messaging – asynchronous messaging and event streaming
- MQ – e.g. IBM MQ
- Events/Streams – e.g. Kafka, AWS SNS/SQS, Azure Event Hub
Low-Code – workflow, forms and low-code applications
- Low-Code Platforms – e.g. Power Platform, ServiceNow App Engine, Mendix
Data Platforms – data storage, analytics and governance
- Lakes – e.g. Databricks, Snowflake
- BI – e.g. Power BI, Tableau
- Catalogs – e.g. Collibra, Alation, Azure Purview
AI/ML – model development, training and serving
- ML Tooling – e.g. Azure ML, SageMaker, Vertex AI
- Model Serving – e.g. Vertex AI, SageMaker
- Feature Stores – e.g. Tecton, AWS Feature Store
Identity – authentication, authorization and privileged access
- SSO/MFA – e.g. Entra ID, Okta, Ping Identity
- PAM – e.g. CyberArk, BeyondTrust, One Identity Safeguard
DevOps – software lifecycle, pipelines and Agile delivery
- Source Control – e.g. GitHub, GitLab
- CI/CD – e.g. GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins
- IaC – e.g. Terraform, Pulumi
- DevSecOps – e.g. Snyk, Checkmarx, GitHub Advanced Security
- Agile / Work Mgmt – e.g. Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow DevOps
Observability – monitoring, logging, metrics and tracing
- Observability Tools – e.g. Elastic, Splunk, Prometheus, Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic, ServiceNow
Cloud Mgmt – govern, monitor and inventory public cloud footprints
- Config/State – e.g. AWS Config, Azure Resource Graph
- Policy – e.g. Azure Policy, AWS SCP
- Inventory – e.g. GCP Asset Inventory
Infrastructure Software – runtime and foundational execution environment
Compute – servers, virtualisation, containers and orchestration
- OS – e.g. RHEL, Windows Server
- Virtualisation – e.g. VMware vSphere
- Containers – e.g. Docker, CRI-O
- Orchestration – e.g. Kubernetes, OpenShift, Rancher
Storage – enterprise storage, backup and analytics
- Management – e.g. NetApp ONTAP, Dell PowerStore
- Backup – e.g. Veeam, Commvault, Rubrik
- Analytics – e.g. Dell CloudIQ, NetApp Cloud Insights
Database – operational and analytical database engines
- Engines – e.g. PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle DB, MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Sybase
- Utilities – e.g. Debezium, pgBackRest
- Data Foundations – e.g. schema/metadata tools
Network – connectivity, routing, SDN and traffic management
- Control – e.g. Infoblox
- SDN – e.g. VMware NSX, Cisco ACI
- Traffic – e.g. F5 BIG-IP, Citrix ADC
- Network Security – e.g. Palo Alto, Check Point, Zscaler
Security – threat detection, prevention and security operations
- Threat Detection – e.g. CrowdStrike Falcon, Defender XDR, SentinelOne
- VR – e.g. Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Nessus
- Hardening/CSPM – e.g. Prisma Cloud, Wiz, CloudGuard
- IGA – e.g. SailPoint, Saviynt, One Identity Manager
- SecOps (SIEM/SOAR) – e.g. Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk ES, IBM QRadar, Cortex XSOAR
IT Management – IT service, operations, portfolio and risk management
- ITSM/ESM – e.g. ServiceNow ITSM, BMC Helix
- ITOM/CMDB – e.g. ServiceNow ITOM Discovery/Mapping
- ITAM/SAM/FinOps – e.g. Snow, ServiceNow ITAM, Flexera, Apptio Cloudability
- EA/APM/TPM – e.g. LeanIX, Apptio, ServiceNow EA, BlueDolphin
- PPM/SPM – e.g. ServiceNow PPM/SPM, Planview, Miro
- GRC/IRM/BCM/DR/TPRM – e.g. Cerix, ServiceNow IRM, MetricStream, RSA Archer
C. EUC Portfolio
OS Stack (Built-In) – components delivered as part of the OS baseline
- OS Core – e.g. Windows, macOS
- Built-In Apps – e.g. Notepad, Safari, Edge, Terminal
- OS Services – e.g. Defender Core, Spotlight, Windows Update
- Drivers & Firmware – GPU/NIC drivers, firmware packages
Deployable EUC Packages – installable software distributed via endpoint management
- Productivity Packages – e.g. Office MSI/Click-to-Run, Adobe Acrobat MSI
- Security Clients – e.g. Defender Agent, CrowdStrike, Zscaler Client Connector
- Utility Tools – e.g. Notepad++, 7-Zip, Postman
- Custom Enterprise Apps – e.g. internal MSI/PKG/IntuneWin packages
- Browser Extensions (Managed) – e.g. LastPass extension, Grammarly extension
- VDI Clients – e.g. Citrix Workspace, Horizon Client
SaaS EUC Applications – cloud-hosted applications accessed via browser or lightweight client
- Office SaaS – e.g. O365 Online (Word Online, Excel Online, PowerPoint Online), Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Office.com Hub, Microsoft Loop, OneNote Online
- Collaboration SaaS – e.g. Teams, Slack, Zoom, Miro, SharePoint Online
- Creativity SaaS – e.g. Adobe Creative Cloud Web, Canva
- Communication SaaS – e.g. Outlook Web, Gmail, Google Meet
- EUC Engagement SaaS – e.g. ServiceNow Virtual Agent, Microsoft Copilot, Dialogflow, Cognigy

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