Enhancing and modernizing business systems is now a high priority for many organizations and budgets are being carefully scrutinized.
As part of any transformation strategy it is important to recognize which applications have served their useful purpose and can be retired, freeing up resources for innovation.
In many cases obsolete systems are kept running just to access historical data, which is often critical for customer service, compliance and operational continuity. By following a controlled legacy application decommissioning process you can maintain easy access to this valuable data while eliminating the costs, risks, and effort of supporting aging software and hardware.
Often the hardest part of a decommissioning project is just getting started. We have a simple process that can help you to:
Our legacy application decommissioning solutions are based on the Columbus DW enterprise content management (ECM) system, part of the Columbus enterprise information management (EIM) suite.
We have more than fifteen years’ experience in successfully delivering legacy application decommissioning projects of all sizes. We work with organizations operating in all business sectors, including heavily regulated industries. Our cost-effective solutions can be utilized to retain data from any business application that needs to be retired – helping companies to tackle the data management challenges of legacy applications and move forward with their digital transformation strategy.
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