AppO - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

AppO is web-based business prioritization software designed to help organizations make complex yet informed decisions and plan strategic outcomes on the basis of any chosen criteria. It is predominantly used to select and prioritise project portfolios, The application helps teams identify the likely impact of their decisions on key stakeholders, identifying where compromise might need to occur.

Key features of AppO include an unlimited customizable criteria hierarchy, including a mix of tangible and intangible, that would enable a multi-national or government to model a universal set of value measures. AppO can also model an unlimited hierarchy of potential investments, again allowing a multi-national or government to model all potential investments across the whole organisation as portfolios, sub-portfolios, programs and projects. AppO also accommodates multiple opinions of what constitutes value that can again be modelled as a hierarchy so that all stakeholder opinions can be modelled and consensus among groups identified along with where compromise will need to occur for stakeholder support. Again, AppO can accommodate multiple assessments of the likely outcomes of each investment, modelled as a hierarchy so that the consensus assessment can be identified along with indications of potential bias or pet projects.

If value measures such as Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) are included in the value measure hierarchy the use of AppO will provide the basis for your claims to ethical behaviour, Since decisions taken using AppO are statistically defendable then the use of ESG value measures can prove your sustainability credentials.

AppO can "fuse" potential investments so that projects can be fused into a program, programs into sub-portfolios and sub-portfolios into portfolios so that assessment at the lowest level can be fused into successively higher levels, thus the relative business value at any level and in any organisational structural unit can be inferred.

AppO includes advanced "What if" analysis, including the ability to analyse multiple hierarchies of potential investments, multiple hierarchies of value measures, multiple hierarchies of assessments and multiple "opinions" of the relative importance of each value measure. AppO also includes a "Sandbox" that allows the user to change measures "on the fly" and observe the impact.

AppO is "white labelled" for consultants, meaning that a consulting business, after accreditation by Kepa Software can create and manage clients accounts in the application without reference to Kepa Software.

There are numerous "inventions" within the application that reduce the time and effort to develop a portfolio recommendation. One such "invention" is rapid assessment whereby AppO can highlight the most influential value measures and allow the user to assess only a few value measures rather than hundreds, then, by a reiterative process remove the low value potential investments and assess the remaining on more value measures. In once case this approach saved person-years of assessment effort.

Security is provided such that access to data is controlled by allowing a user to see only specific potential investments. User access to functionality can also be restricted so that the ability to see, create, or modify data can be controlled, user by user.