Manage and Modernize Your IT Portfolio with Bento

Technology is advancing, evolving, and developing every single day. With such fast-paced changes, you need to make sure your information technology (IT) portfolio stays up to date. That’s why Booz Allen developed the Bento toolkit, an IT modernization tool to help you reduce and consolidate applications to minimize spending and advance your technology.

Ready to modernize your IT portfolio? We’ll guide you through the integration of Bento into existing systems to help you achieve your desired business goals. Once you establish customized objectives for your IT needs, Bento collects data and evaluation criteria surrounding the portfolio to create a unique assessment.

Bento then uses this data to predict potential outcomes and suggest steps that will help you streamline your IT portfolio. By creating easy-to-understand data visualizations, Bento suggests options to eliminate, consolidate, or refresh applications.

Today, our Bento toolkit is helping clients in the defense, intelligence, and other federal and commercial markets with cloud migration strategy, IT investment planning, and technology modernization. What was originally developed for a client seeking a sustainable and cost-effective plan to support its applications is now a groundbreaking tool used for IT modernization across the Federal Government. 

Personalized templates for your unique portfolio

• We know that no two problems can be solved the exact same way. Since all of our clients have different needs in order to meet their business goals, our Bento toolkit provides customizable templates that can be adjusted based on unique business and IT requirements.

Rapid outputs to speed up your IT modernization

• IT modernization is a comprehensive process. The period between analyzing your portfolio and making changes can easily become prolonged. Bento shortens this timeline with streamlined input processes and automatically generated visualizations of the results. This tool enables input and analysis with just the click of the button and easy-to-read visualization dashboards.

Eliminating bias from critical business decisions

• When condensing an IT portfolio, some businesses make the mistake of relying on subjective opinions to make imperative IT decisions—decisions that affect company growth. Bento removes any subjectivity during analysis. By standardizing data and adjusting the weight of variables to fit priorities, Bento produces statistically grounded results.

Booz Allen offers several delivery options for Bento to ensure every organization can access our powerful framework. In addition to labor-based delivery, Booz Allen offers several licensed options to purchase Bento.

Bento Assessment License

• The Bento Assessment License includes 12-months of premium support which includes an end-to-end Bento Assessment supported by a dedicated Booz Allen analyst, access to the complete library of templates for dozens of use cases, and a sleek web application deliverable.

Bento Extended Support License

• For customers that have already completed a Bento Assessment, the Bento Extended Support License allows the customer extend support for an additional 12 months. This includes periodic updates of the web application deliverable and reach back support to continuously refresh their model and data.

Bento Specialist Support

• Bento customers with an active Bento License have exclusive access to additional on-demand support from Booz Allen experts for custom requirements gathering, data collection and cleansing, model configuration, and more.