Application Rationalization

Application Rationalization (AR) within the Abode product suites offers a range of products ans service delivering more insight into the state of the organization’s application landscape than other AR products. Applications with completely different names can be matched. This is particularly applicable when organizations have to merge or rationalization is used to centralize and rationalize data centers.        

Detailed technological and financial/economical assessments result in different migration scenarios, based on multi-angle viewpoints that deliver more insight. Based on these multi-angle viewpoints better decisions can be made.

Data analysis solutions, like an integrated information portfolio data warehouse environment, enable the organization to base their decisions on more than the standard analysis reporting. User-friendly analysis and reporting tools can rapidly produce sophisticated information about the status of the portfolio, address the necessary challenges, support migration planning, etc.

This results in diminishing the number of licenses, reduction of maintenance costs, while technological improvement projects, while business functionality improvement initiatives can be set up easily.

Approach

Enterprise Architects distinguishes the following phases to derive at excellent Application Rationalization results:

1. Scoping & Start-up
2. Assessments
   1. Business Assessment
   2. Application Inventory Assessment
   3. Value Framework Assessment
3. Launch
   1. Loading the Framework(s)
   2. Application Rationalization Analysis
   3. Application Rationalization Reporting & Decision Support
4. Results Reporting
   1. Workshops
   2. Finalizing AR Report
5. After-Care
   1. Setting up the AR/BI Environment
   2. AR Training
   3. Coaching
   4. Information Portfolio Planning

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