Application Consolidation and Mergers
Business Benefits
Optimize the application portfolio by combining overlapping systems.
Between 80 and 90% of all large enterprises will acquire or merge with another organization in the next three years, according to a survey conducted by KPMG. However, the study also demonstrated that just as many mergers will fail to deliver positive benefits as those that succeed. Many of these failures stem from ineffective integration of the two organizations' operations.
Without deep insight into the application portfolios of both companies, your IT team cannot determine how to effectively connect core business rules and business processes. And without the ability to compare the application complexity, value, and contents of each application portfolio there can be no way to determine which applications should be retained in the merged organization.
The challenge faced by merging companies also poses problems for organizations during the normal course of business. Often systems will grow in size and scope to the point of duplication. It is a common and inefficient situation for most companies where multiple -- even dozens of -- applications execute similar tasks. To free resources and reduce the overlap of systems, companies may decide to consolidate similar systems into fewer, more maintainable applications.
Relativity Technologies can help. Our
Modernization Workbench® platform accelerates the consolidation process through:
Due Diligence and Understanding of Business Processes
The operations of today's businesses are built on enterprise applications. As a result, it is imperative that application portfolios are richly assessed during the due diligence stage. With the Modernization Workbench, IT teams can conduct a complete investigation of an application portfolio using the solution's powerful documentation and visualization analyses.
The Modernization Workbench provides an impartial view of the structure, maintainability, complexity, and processes of the targeted applications. Using this information, analysts can better understand the value to their organization of the intellectual property embedded within the assessed application portfolio.
Analysis to Determine 'Best of Breed' Business Processes
The business logic embedded within an application portfolio represent valuable competitive differentiators. The Modernization Workbench enables your team to understand enterprise applications in detail -- including the structure and behavior of the targeted applications.
Armed with always-current documentation, deep querying capabilities, and reports generated by the Modernization Workbench, analysts are able to compare the functionality of one system with another to determine where gaps exist. This information gives management the ability to intelligently select which elements from the two portfolios represent the greatest value for the merged organization.
Improved Consolidation and Integration of Diverse Applications
The Modernization Workbench eases the challenge of consolidation by allowing analysts to probe deep into systems - down to the source code level - to determine the structure and flow of applications. This rich detail allows users to determine how to execute integration activities without disrupting the application portfolio.
Additionally, business rules buried deep with the application code can be uncovered, documented, and managed to ensure the transition of the needed logic to the merged application. Users can also isolate business logic into standalone components and execute SOA analysis activities that speed the deployment of service-oriented applications. The result: highly accelerated paths to consolidated and streamlined application portfolios.
