97 example, the processes, teams and business capabilities that they support. This is fundamental in enterprise architecture. You can then provide all this information in digestible visualisations to identify those applications that are duplicated, have low business value or low technology fit. Then you can select the ones that are no longer needed.” Retiring applications in this way also enables businesses to streamline their application portfolio, which increases productivity and allows firms to invest in better-suited applications. Beyond these cost savings, there are other financial benefits associated with using iServer365, as outlined by the TEI report. According to Mitchell, one of the most important is accelerated resiliency planning. “The report found that organisations could save up to 50 per cent of their time here,” he says. “Given that this is the decade of disruption, building resiliency is fundamental to preventing business disruption. However, if it does happen, organisations must be able to react quickly. iServer365 enables that.” Finances aside, the cloud platform also fosters greater collaboration across departments. “While enterprise architects are the core users of the platform, they cannot provide answers on their own,” says Mitchell. “They rely on collaboration with the wider business to understand all this metadata and the relevance and cost of applications. “People are more likely to collaborate if you make it easy for them to do so. This results in greater engagement from these wider stakeholders, which will add to the enrichment and the value of the enterprise architecture that you're building. It's a critical success factor for true enterprise architectures to be built, maintained and updated in this way.” For Mitchell, a key differentiator for Orbus is its interoperability with Microsoft. “That's important because most organisations use Microsoft Applications,” he says. “We have native integrations with its key collaboration applications, including Teams, SharePoint and Power BI. We've focused much of our development on integrating with these tools because people will best engage with you if it's through the tools they use every day. Microsoft interoperability has always been our specialism.”
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