Feel stuck maintaining legacy apps

Are you stuck in a loop maintaining applications that aren’t so useful anymore? Retiring legacy applications frees up valuable time, budget and resources for higher value initiatives—giving you an advantage over the competition.

Winning withApplication Retirement

“Most IT organizations spend

80%

60-80%of their budget just

keeping the lights on”

“By 2020,

50%of all current applications

in the data center will be retired”

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1 IDC, Application Portfolio Rationalization - Consolidation and Retirement Strategies, 20132 UniSphere Research, Governance Moves Big Data from Hype to Confidence, 20143 Gartner, Build a Leaner Data Center Through Application Retirement, October 24, 2013

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