Platform Overview
Making Portfolio Management work like a charm
Colloquial is the architecture tool that makes it easy to harness the cumulative knowledge in your organisation.
✔ Simple to collect the facts you need
✔ Layer on insights
✔ Effortless to maintain
Empower your team to make faster decisions and better investment outcomes backed in trusted data.
How Colloquial works
Take stock
of what you’ve got
Fact Cards are your future source of truth
We start by creating Fact Cards for all the things in your business that you want to track. You can bulk import your inventory from XLSX.
Focus on the facts
you need to know
Choose from our ready to-go fact templates
Start with a template, customise, or create your own.
Set a data quality target, trust period and priority so you can monitor how complete your data is and when it needs to be checked.
Crowd-source
your business knowledge
No need to go-it-alone. Gather the answers you need with ease.
You can even request, view and update Fact Cards directly in your Microsoft Teams chat.
Take a
bird’s eye view
Explore your portfolios interactively
Layer on insights to spot overlaps, risks misalignment and opportunities.
Dive into the details
What type of Fact Cards can be used?
Many of our customers kick off with an inventory of their current Apps and related Stakeholders.
Some prefer to start in the Capability and Process space.
You’re in the driver’s seat. Turn on the Fact Card types you need when you’re ready.
There’s no need to worry about extra costs - we don’t charge any extra.
What kind of Facts can be collected?
Collect facts using our library of templates, or build your own:
Single-choice assessments capture a response from a list of options, like the Identity Security used on Apps
Multi-step assessment use indicator questions to calculate an overall value, like the Technical Fitness of an App.
Roles define a Stakeholder relationship to Fact Cards, like a Business Owner, Support Partner, or Data Protection Officer.
Details are used to track key text, numbers, finance or dates such as contract expiry.
Links capture the source of important documents and websites like a Solution Design or Operating Procedure.
How do we slice and dice our Fact Cards?
Fact Card Groups are used to organise and visualise each type of Fact Card. Colloquial comes with best-practice reference architecture based on TBM, TOGAF and APQC frameworks to get you started.
Tags can be used across all Fact Card types. You might want to focus on all Fact Cards related to a particular project, regulation, or line of business.
How do our Fact Cards stay trusted?
Trust periods are part of the data policy that is set on each fact template. You control the scope, priority and how frequently that piece of knowledge needs to be reviewed to be considered trusted.
Updating facts is a breeze with integration to collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams and Slack. Fact checks can be requested and updated directly in a Teams chat.
Ready to see more? Get started with Colloquial
30 day free trial
We’d love to show you Colloquial in action.
Let’s start with a free consultation, and we can provide you with a guided 30-day free trial.
Need a helping hand?
We offer a wide range of tailored services.
Our onboarding and consulting services can help you maximise the value from Colloquial faster.