Enterprises often tolerate legacy application sprawl, underestimating its drag on budgets, risk posture, and innovation. The result is mounting technical debt, rising licensing/support spend, audit headaches, and slower transformation.
This eBook explains what application retirement is and isn’t then quantifies the “cost of doing nothing” and the tipping point shown by the Risk Score Over Time. To make this actionable, you’ll also want Part 2, which turns urgency into CFO-ready math and a self-funding execution model. Read both for the complete picture Part 1 frames the problem; Part 2 funds and runs the solution.
Download this eBook to explore key topics:
- Legacy app sprawl: visible, hidden, and strategic costs
- Real-world Tier-1 ERP footprint example
- Cost of technical debt and support/licensing over time
- Audit exposure and productivity drain
- Impact on cloud migration, data access, and innovation
- Risk Score Over Time and Why Timing Matters.