Clarity in the system jungle

Business value instead of gut feeling. The App Value Index separates digital value creators from digital dead weight: it reveals which applications actually affect revenue, costs and risk, and which only add complexity.

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Licences

Budgets flow into applications without benefit.

Licence, operating and support costs tie resources to systems that no longer serve the strategy.

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Dependencies

Critical dependencies stay hidden.

Until an outage, a migration or a modernisation makes them visible and causes considerable extra costs.

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Redundancy

Duplicate systems, double the complexity.

Redundant applications increase complexity, risks and operating costs without creating additional value.

Where you stand

Which applications create value, and which only create complexity?

Every application leaves traces. In revenue. In costs. In risk.

Our app value analysis methodology separates digital value creators from digital dead weight — because the biggest costs often don’t come from the applications that stand out, but from the ones nobody questions.

What is it costing you?

CorInnoHiveVALUE separates digital value creators from digital baggage and turns application management into a discipline with measurable business impact.

Without CorInnoHiveVALUE

  • What it costs you: Licence budgets flow into applications that hardly deliver any benefit.
  • What it costs you: Operating and support costs tie valuable resources to systems that no longer serve the strategy.
  • What it costs you: Critical vendor, technology or integration dependencies stay hidden and can cause considerable extra costs during outages, migrations or modernisation projects.
  • What it costs you: Technical debt grows unnoticed and makes every change more expensive.
  • What it costs you: Redundant systems increase complexity, risks and operating costs.

With CorInnoHiveVALUE

  • What you gain: Value contribution transparency — You can see at a glance which applications create business value and which mainly cause costs.
  • What you gain: Investment clarity — Budgets flow to where they have the greatest effect, rather than into systems of questionable benefit.
  • What you gain: Risk transparency — Critical dependencies, technical debt and hidden weaknesses become visible before they become a business problem.
  • What you gain: Portfolio clean-up — Applications with low strategic relevance or high effort are identified systematically.
  • What you gain: Target architecture with direction — The analysis produces a clear roadmap for modernisation, consolidation and transformation.
  • What you gain: Understanding business impact — You can see which applications accelerate your business goals and which hold them back.
  • What you gain: Quick wins included — Measures with high benefit that can be implemented immediately become visible early and can be realised straight away.

How we solve it

  • We make visible which applications create value and which are only there because they always have been.
  • We assign every application a clear future: keep. Modernise. Replace. Switch off.
  • We develop a three- to five-year target architecture that fits the corporate strategy.
  • We create transparency about costs, risks, dependencies and potential, and show the most sensible way forward.
  • With a business impact analysis, we translate technical findings into business effects. Because in the end, what counts is not the application, but its contribution to business success.
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App Value Index: the truth behind your applications

Our methodology follows the PDCA cycle (plan, do, check, act), the proven principle of continuous improvement. Instead of one-off analyses, you establish a repeatable management cycle that creates transparency, prioritises measures, checks results and systematically develops the application landscape.

Turn your application portfolio into a value driver.