A backlog of
requests, turned into one portfolio worth steering
cplace IT portfolio and demand management software scores every IT request against real capacity and budget, then ranks it in one live investment portfolio. Built for large, regulated enterprises. Configurable in No-Code and Low-Code.
Trusted by global leaders
Six reasons IT demand never turns into a ranked portfolio
Demand arrives in a dozen formats. Business units, subsidiaries, and functional teams each submit requests their own way. Harmonizing them for portfolio-level scoring then takes weeks.
Every stakeholder group has its own priorities. Business, IT, finance, and compliance often rank the same requests differently. Aligning them into a single funded plan is where the process stalls.
Application data is scattered across separate systems. CMDBs, EA repositories, financial systems, and PPM tools each hold part of the picture, yet nothing combines the information into a single, real-time portfolio view.
Scoring criteria drift across the organization. What counts as “strategic” in one business unit means something different in the next. Portfolio comparisons lose meaning without a shared model.
Governance cycles can’t keep up with the business. By the time the annual portfolio review lands, half the assumptions have shifted. Reprioritizing mid-year means rebuilding the model from scratch.
Portfolio views are always one step behind delivery. Executive dashboards refresh on a slower cadence than the projects they report on, so steering decisions arrive after the moment to act has passed.
Run one ranked IT portfolio instead of a backlog of requests
Consistent scoring turns competing requests into one comparable portfolio
With cplace, every IT request runs through the same intake process and gets scored against the same criteria, with real capacity and budget attached. IT applications become a single portfolio instead of a mystery, so you can steer funding, retention, and retirement decisions from a single source of truth.
Six shifts you feel in the first quarter
One intake for every business unit
Demand from every subsidiary and function enters through a single, configurable intake. No more harmonizing spreadsheets before the portfolio review.
One score everyone trusts
One score everyone signs off on. Business, IT, finance, and compliance weigh in with role-weighted inputs and land on a single agreed number. No alignment workshop needed.
One portfolio view across your data
cplace pulls from CMDB, EA repositories, financial systems, and PPM tools into one live portfolio picture. No manual consolidation necessary.
One scoring model, one language
One shared definition of strategic, urgent or high-risk. Business units keep their own priorities, but the scoring criteria mean the same thing everywhere. Cross-unit comparisons hold up.
Portfolio decisions at business speed
Reprioritize mid-cycle without rebuilding the model by using No-Code and Low-Code to change scoring, intake, and views on your portfolio team’s timeline.
Live portfolio, live steering
Executive dashboards refresh with the underlying data, so steering committees decide on the current picture, not last month’s.
15% better
resource utilization
10% fewer
budget overruns
25% less
time spent on reporting and approvals
Connects with your enterprise ecosystem
How cplace runs IT portfolio and
demand management
One intake, one score
All IT demand enters through a single intake and gets scored against consistent criteria, so you can compare priorities across the whole portfolio.
Applications as a portfolio
TIME analysis (tolerate, invest, migrate, eliminate) maps your application landscape, so rationalization decisions rest on data instead of opinion.
Adapts without waiting on IT
The portfolio team can adjust scoring models, intake forms, and portfolio views with No-Code and Low-Code as governance changes.
AI-driven IT portfolio and demand management
Align every IT request with your strategy in minutes
Built into the platform your teams already use, cplace AI helps evaluate incoming requests against current priorities and makes every recommendation transparent. It also shows the impact of different funding scenarios, enabling faster, more confident decisions. As priorities evolve, the IT portfolio can be realigned quickly and consistently.
- Portfolio-wide insights in minutes
- Comparison of different funding scenarios side by side
- 100% of demand scored against current criteria
Built for the teams that turn IT
investment into business results
investment into business results
- CIOs & IT leadership: Steer IT investment from one ranked portfolio you can defend to the board, line by line.
- Internal IT & IT Portfolio Managers: Own the intake, the scoring model, and the portfolio, instead of chasing requests through inboxes.
- Large & regulated enterprises: Automotive, pharma, life sciences, financial services, and public sector, where every IT investment must hold up to audit.
Modular building blocks power cplace IT portfolio and demand
management
cplace solutions are built from modular building blocks: ready-made apps and templates that snap together and can be tailored without code. IT portfolio and demand management uses:
IT Demand Management
Structured intake and scoring for incoming IT requests
Portfolio Management
IT investment portfolios and executive-level views
TREES by 2l Forge
Hierarchies for application and IT investment portfolios, including TIME analysis
Kafka Analytics Connector
Executive analytics feeds from operational IT tools
cplace AI Companion
IT demand scoring, scenario comparisons, and portfolio insights
Frequently asked questions
These are the questions that come up most often when CIOs and IT teams first talk to us about running IT demand and portfolios in cplace.
Some enterprises run cplace alongside their existing tools; others use it to consolidate parts of their portfolio and demand management. On this page, we focus on the IT portfolio and demand management solution, but cplace is a broader enterprise platform that also covers strategic portfolio management, cross-company planning, resource and capacity management, and enterprise agile planning. The right entry point depends on where portfolio steering sits in your current landscape today.
Traditional PPM suites ship with a fixed feature set that evolves on the vendor’s roadmap. cplace ships as a modular, configurable platform: your IT shapes intake, scoring, and portfolio views in No-Code and Low-Code, without waiting on a release cycle. The same platform scales beyond IT into strategy, cross-company planning, and delivery, so the model your teams build once travels across the enterprise. Enterprises pick cplace when governance needs to change faster than an out-of-the-box solution allows.
Scoring criteria, intake forms, portfolio views, workflows, and reports are all No-Code and Low-Code. Your IT team owns the model. Deeper changes, such as new integrations or custom logic, are typically built by your architects with cplace support, not by us alone.
Most large enterprises go live with a first productive portfolio in a few months, starting with one business unit or one demand type and expanding from there. Because cplace ships as modular building blocks, implementation teams focus on aligning existing apps with your unique processes instead of building software from scratch.
cplace AI works with your portfolio data within your own tenant. Your customer data is never used to train public or shared models. Every AI-generated score is fully traceable, with clear reasoning behind each result — helping you maintain governance, transparency, and auditability.