As businesses grow, IT departments are continuously challenged to look for new applications that address unmet business needs, drive efficiencies and reduce costs. As an organization adapts to change and leverages the latest technology to deliver more value to customers, the corresponding change is reflected in the application portfolio. It is not uncommon for companies that have been in business for a decade to have hundreds of legacy applications that deliver marginal value to the business but yet represent a significant operational and maintenance cost.

This white paper discusses best practices for identifying legacy applications that are of little or no value to an organizat...