Managing Intel’s thousands of applications and millions of IT resources (such as identities, Domain Name System (DNS) records, accounts, certificates, VMs, databases, and more) requires capabilities beyond those found in commercially available application portfolio management (APM) solutions. We have developed a custom APM framework that strictly gates the provisioning of new resources used by applications. Our goal is to provision IT resources only when an application is correctly registered and the resources are linked to a specific application. This approach to APM helps enable cost savings, creates more efficient application and resource lifecycle management, and reduces security and compliance risk.