Spring Cleaning of Applications

Kevin Kern serves as Innotas' President and CEO, leveraging his 20 years of operational experience with high-growth software companies. Innotas is a leading provider of Cloud Solutions for IT Management.

  Applications Delivery   Information Technology   Portfolio Management   Strategy  

Enterprise applications…we love them so much that we can’t let them go, even when they cost our businesses time and resources. Whether your business uses software as a service (SaaS) applications or legacy applications brought along from businesses your company acquired, most companies have so many applications now that they’re spending an inordinate amount of time trying to manage and maintain them. This management process is a drain on time and resources, weighs companies down and creates inefficiencies.

Call it application sprawl, application bloat or whatever you like, most companies that rely on applications could use a good old-fashioned spring cleaning to reassess and determine which apps in a company’s portfolio provide unequivocal value and which should make a polite exit.

This spring cleaning doesn’t need to be particularly painful. In fact, there’s a very reasonable five-step process that will help companies determine which apps truly add value to the business, which they can get rid of, and how to organize the remaining apps so they work as efficiently as they can.

As you go through this recommended five-step process, pay particular attention to the third step. It’s the best means to determine the business value of each application, which is the best indicator of whether an application should stay in your …

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