Toolkit

Setting Your Course For An Application Portfolio Rationalization Strategy

Beyond The 2023 Horizon

January 6th, 2023
Biswajeet Mahapatra, Principal Analyst
Biswajeet Mahapatra Principal Analyst
Linda Ivy-Rosser, VP, Research Director
Linda Ivy-Rosser VP, Research Director
With contributors:
Charles Betz , Rachel Kwon , Analise Gutierrez

Summary

Most firms struggle with how to manage their existing application portfolio. New growth initiatives, mergers, business applications, and citizen developers add to the core technology landscape — resulting in complexity and redundancy with both disruptive IT consequences and business impacts. CIOs must strategize to rationalize and “right-size” their portfolio on an ongoing basis. This report describes what CIOs, with their enterprise architecture practice, must do to guide an application rationalization program.

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