Application Rationalisation Assessment Are your applications holding your business back?

ARE YOUR APPLICATIONS HOLDING YOUR BUSINESS BACK? Peru’s well proven Applications Rationalisation Assessment provides organisations with an adaptable methodology that delivers greater visibility, increased business value and helps you to reduce the cost of managing your application and server estate assets.

BECOMING AN AGILE BUSINESS All too often, enterprises’ application portfolios become unwieldy, unknown quantities. Gartner cites that, on average, 70% or more of all application related costs are typically spent on maintenance and support, This “keep the lights on” spending diverts resources that could be used to innovate and help grow the business. Peru helps clients to rapidly simplify their applications portfolio and significantly reduce the complexity and cost of its underlying infrastructure. Agility

GETTING UNDER THE COVERS Peru uses a proven range of tools, templates and techniques. These can be configured to suit the analysis information required and the business objectives you have in mind. Our analysis templates and metrics focus on business value, operating costs and risk exposure. This allows us to ascertain where your investments are making the best contribution to the business, and also crucially, where things need to change.

FOCUSING THE ANALYSIS Peru applies a structured process that progressively builds a rich definition of the applications and underlying infrastructure landscape. Our team will rapidly classify and evaluate your business applications from the perspective and criteria that matter to you. email R&D HR Payroll Legacy BI Lotus Notes We will profile your applications and develop understanding of legacy and strategic applications. This helps to equip your business with the information it needs to consider its best options for simplifying the applications landscape.

Technical Sustainability DRAWING CONCLUSIONS The TIME matrix is used to assess the business value of applications as well as their technical sustainability. Category Breakdown Invest High business value, with low technical risk. These are the systems that should form the backbone of the future investment strategy for the organisation. Some consolidation is possible if multiple systems deliver identical functionality. Migrate High business value, but also high technical risk. These systems need to be managed over time to ensure that there is either; a migration strategy to better systems or a plan in place to reduce the technology risk. Clear strategy around this type of system is often the most critical component of any IT strategy. Tolerate Low business value, but low technical risk. No driving force for change here. Single instances can be tolerated but large numbers of systems/applications of this type can lead to complex and costly support structures. Eliminate Low business value, with high technical risk. These systems need to be actively managed to ensure they are replaced/removed as quickly as possible Strategic Platforms Legacy Platforms Low Value High Value Business Value Technical Sustainability Invest Tolerate Eliminate Migrate

ON THE ROAD TO SUCCESS Peru rapidly delivers a current state assessment which will allow highlight where the true business wins and challenges lie. We will provide true visibility of your application spend and quantify the cost and impact of making the changes that will bring more value and agility to your business You will be able to see where and how tighter alignment of your applications to the needs of the business can be achieved. These insights are the building blocks for the Applications rationalisation road map to deliver cost efficiency and business agility.

ACHIEVING A STEP CHANGE Many organisations are maximising virtualisation, converging their infrastructure and moving to Cloud deployment. The Peru Applications Rationalisation Assessment helps companies to prepare for the journey. Our approach can also typically result in circa 20% cost savings as well as delivering benefits such as: Revenue Identifying candidates for removal or remediation Freeing up people and money to focus on change and innovation Reducing application maintenance costs Rationalising the server estate Reducing infrastructure and operational costs

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