The Secret To Rationalizing Applications: Start With The End In Mind

As software becomes a central tool for customer engagement, pressure is mounting on application development and delivery (AD&D) leaders to create and deliver new customer-facing and mobile applications. Resource constraints often make fulfilling that demand a difficult proposition at best. The good news is that application rationalization looms large as an antidote to overly complex, wasteful, and redundant application portfolios that tie down resources that could otherwise be redeployed. The prelude to effective rationalization is to collect descriptive metrics about the application inventory to guide rationalization decisions. Ironically, this is the very point where most firms commit a fatal error. This report outlines how to avoid missteps that cause application rationalization programs to fail.