Decommissioning

Reduce cost and complexity in the application portfolio

Over time, legacy applications tend to overload IT departments, as organisations are reluctant to shut down legacy application even after replacement applications have been introduced. This is usually due to the fact that someone in the organisation needs to access the information. Maintaining outdated applications has significant impact on operational and maintenance cost. Next to the cost factor, this can also inhibit the investment into new applications.

A regular weighting of the cost and benefits of every application in the application portfolio can help decision-making, which applications should be maintained and which applications should be upgraded, replaced, consolidated or decommissioned.

Advantages of decommissioning

The advantages of successful decommissioning:

Significant cost reduction through: removal of hardware, software and unused licenses, readjustment of maintenance and support contracts as well as reduction of maintenance and administration effort;
Simplifying the processes, reducing redundancy and user experience through consolidating applications;
Regaining flexibility and agility in IT architecture and therefore keeping pace with implementation of new business requirement;
Solving vendor support problems and time consuming build effort for outdated architectures and programming language;
Complying with ongoing regulation and fulfilling audit requirements;
Less dependencies on outdated technology – where it might be difficult to get access to or hold the needed knowledge.