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Application Portfolio Rationalisation

Most organisations don't know what they have. MAXION maps it — from stakeholder evidence, not from spreadsheets.

35%

Of enterprise applications are unused or underutilised (Gartner)

60%

Of rationalisation programs fail to achieve projected cost savings

70%

Of handoff failures caused by undocumented application dependencies

The Problem

Why this keeps going wrong.

Application portfolio rationalisation fails when the landscape assessment is incomplete. Shadow IT is missed. Integration dependencies between applications to be retired aren't mapped. Business value assessments are done by IT without the business context that justifies them.

The structural failure
1
Shadow IT missed in inventory assessments
2
Integration dependencies undocumented
3
Business value scored by IT, not business owners
4
Rationalisation decisions made without full context
How MAXION Solves It

Phase by phase. Nothing lost between them.

01Discover

Complete landscape coverage

MAXION interviews business owners, IT teams, operations, and finance — capturing the real business value of applications, the actual integration dependencies, the shadow IT that nobody documented, and the compliance requirements tied to applications IT didn't know existed.

02Planner

Rationalisation architecture

Target state portfolio generated from evidence — with explicit retire, retain, consolidate, and replace decisions grounded in stakeholder evidence, not IT assumptions. Migration sequencing that respects integration dependencies.

What You Get

Deliverables. Not slide decks.

Complete application inventory including shadow IT
Business value and technical health scored for every application
Portfolio target state with justified retire/retain/consolidate decisions
Migration sequencing that respects integration dependencies

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