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Ad hoc management of the application lifecycle leads to inefficient management of the application, reducing its overall value.
Applications pass through four lifecycle stages: Birth, Growth, Maturity, and Death. To effectively manage each application, the IT leader and Applications Manager (AM) must know to which state it belongs.
Determining if or when to retire an application is a difficult proposition. Retirement decisions have a reactionary effect on an enterprise's corporate and technology infrastructure. Using the wrong criteria to determine whether or not to retire...
Cutting costs can be an overwhelming and painful task, but knowing where to focus your efforts can make it easier. Take a look at our top ten favorite strategies. It doesn't have to be as painful as you think, and who knows, you could become the...
Many enterprises find themselves having to streamline a very large IT applications portfolio because of application redundancy, application aging, and unnecessary complexity. Use a three-phase approach to application retirement to put the right...