Application Retirement

What Is Application Rationalization?

What Is Application Rationalization? The dashboard lit up like a Christmas tree, red alerts flashing across the screen. I could hear the murmurs of confusion in the war room, fingers tapping frantically on keyboards as they tried to make sense ...

What Are Data Migration Best Practices?

What Are Data Migration Best Practices? The system was in a state of flux, data pouring in, but the metrics were all off. I stared at the dashboard, watching the green lights flicker nervously, signaling a false sense of success. ...

What Is Application Retirement?

What Is Application Retirement? The application has been on the retirement roadmap for three years. The replacement is in production. Active usage is down to 4%. The business case is signed. Every quarter, the retirement is pushed. The reason is ...

Legacy Modernization, Honestly: What ‘Just Move It to the Cloud’ Actually Costs

Legacy Modernization, Honestly: What 'Just Move It to the Cloud' Actually Costs Legacy Modernization Failure: The Loudest System Is Not Always the Root Cause Legacy Mainframe silent enforcement implicit retention audit by side-effect decades of dependence modernization New Stack cics-dump-first ...

IT Infrastructure Modernization, Honestly: What the Lift That Looks Clean Actually Costs

IT Infrastructure Modernization, Honestly: What the Lift That Looks Clean Actually Costs Infra Modernization Failure: The Loudest System Is Not Always the Root Cause Application Tier implicit data assumptions ordering assumptions retention assumptions format assumptions lift to new infra New ...

Data Warehouse Modernization, Honestly: What Lift-and-Shift Actually Hides

Data Warehouse Modernization, Honestly: What Lift-and-Shift Actually Hides DW Modernization Failure: The Loudest System Is Not Always the Root Cause Legacy DW / COBOL undocumented logic implicit business rules perform chains nobody owns the meaning lift and shift Modern Warehouse ...

Application Retirement, Honestly: What ‘We Decommissioned It’ Actually Misses

Application Retirement, Honestly: What 'We Decommissioned It' Actually Misses The app is officially retired. The login page is gone. The contract with the vendor is closed. But the data still has subpoenas waiting on it. That is the entire opening ...

Addressing Risks In A Platform For Third Party Risk Management

Problem Overview Large organizations face significant challenges in managing data across various systems, particularly in the context of third-party risk management. The movement of data across system layers often leads to issues with data integrity, lineage, and compliance. As data ...

Addressing Wealth Management Communications In Data Governance

Problem Overview Large organizations in the wealth management sector face significant challenges in managing communications data across various systems. The complexity arises from the need to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements while maintaining data integrity, lineage, and retention policies. As ...

Criteria For Evaluating Human Risk Management Platform Vendors

Problem Overview Large organizations face significant challenges in managing data across various system layers, particularly concerning data movement, metadata retention, lineage tracking, compliance, and archiving. The complexity of multi-system architectures often leads to failures in lifecycle controls, breaks in data ...