Loss Of Historical Financial Data Triggered This Application Consolidation Program

Application consolidation efforts can be difficult for application development professionals to justify to business leaders. Spend money to decommission applications? That seems counterintuitive when the business perceives that it needs more, not fewer, applications. However, bloated application portfolios are a severe tax on the very resources that would otherwise enable new projects and innovation. Bloat consumes hardware and software maintenance dollars, is a multiplier on every technology upgrade, and subjects firms to excess business risk, as one energy company discovered the hard way.