 rationalization of a large application portfolio rationalization of a large application portfolio hemraj mon 10272025 740 rationalization of a large application portfolio business technology transformation solutions business technology transformation image enterprise architecture solutions enterprise architecture image healthcare industries healthcare image manufacturing industries manufacturing image research industries research image image a multiconcept home improvement franchise system with four consumer brands and more than 1000 locations in the united states and canada the challenge the client has been growing with inclusion of new services and product offerings and through acquisition over time the application portfolio had grown to over 700 separate applications being supported by it business required it to reduce its annual outlay by close to 40 reduction of the application footprint by 50 was a key requirement to achieve this goal of annual outlay reduction our solution the goal of the project was to rationalize the it applications portfolio in order to reduce the footprint by 50 and improve manageability and cost effectiveness the work required study and understanding of current state architecture and developing a future state architecture for the enterprise we used a bestofbreed and customized it portfolio rationalization and integration methodology and carried out the following in this project  studied the current state of client application environment from the following perspectives application redundancy application usage application health studied the key applications for the organization for the following perspectives enterprise applications operational applications determined key strategic application vendors with which to form strategic long term relationships worked with the us europe and apacbased it teams and identified the bestvalue future state applications using an objective quantitative model created a future state application portfolio based on rationalization outcomes illustrating tobe application architecture wiring diagram tobe application architecture transition plan illustrating yearly pace of transition infrastructure impact analysis and remediation recommendations created a specific change management plan and communication plan to facilitate end users transitioning from one application to another created a governance and application rationalization sustainability framework to take in to account application lifecycle including procurement tobeintroduced technologies such as cloud based applications and mobile applications exception processing communication and management and ability to serve m a work created effective communication plans to address actual project implementation governance procedures and outcomes decision support related to application rationalization on an ongoing basis developed a disposition plan for each application incorporating human factors organizational change management financial legal regulatory impact and technology sunset designs for data integration and infrastructure highlights we went on to assist the client with the implementation of the rationalization the rationalization effort saved over 40 million in annual outflow for the client business technology transformation solutions business technology transformation image enterprise architecture solutions enterprise architecture image healthcare industries healthcare image manufacturing industries manufacturing image research industries research image  