Your Power Platform Estate Is Already a Software Portfolio
Power Platform workloads deserve portfolio decisions about investment, ownership, duplication, risk and retirement.
Thousands of apps and flows are not merely platform inventory. They are a software portfolio, complete with duplicated capabilities, hidden dependencies, uneven business value and accumulating support obligations.
Treating the estate as a security cleanup misses the management opportunity. Group assets by business capability and solution. Identify where several teams solved the same problem, where a personal flow became critical infrastructure and where an unused application still carries premium cost or data exposure.
Portfolio governance needs decisions: invest, tolerate, consolidate, replace or retire. Usage is evidence, not the decision. A low-volume regulatory process may be critical; a heavily used convenience app may remain locally supported.
Assign service tiers and owners, then connect investment to them. The platform team should make the portfolio visible; business leaders must decide which capabilities deserve durable support. Power Platform does not eliminate application portfolio management. It merely lets organisations postpone it until the estate is large enough to hurt.