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Simplify and optimize your application landscape

Consolidate applications, retire legacy systems, and preserve critical business data

How can you reduce application complexity and costs?

Years of growth, mergers, and decentralized decisions often create complex application landscapes with overlapping systems and rising costs. T-Systems combines AI-driven portfolio analysis with proven consolidation approaches to identify redundancies, retire obsolete applications, and preserve critical business data. The result is a leaner, compliant, and future-ready IT landscape that lowers costs, reduces complexity, and maximizes business value.

Common scenarios – and how to master them

Your challenges

  • Multiple applications increase costs and complexity
  • Legacy systems are often retained for historical data access
  • Hidden dependencies make retirement and consolidation risky
  • Compliance requirements demand secure long-term data retention
     

Our approach

  • AI-driven analysis identifies overlaps and consolidation opportunities
  • Consolidate capabilities into fewer strategic platforms
  • Preserve and archive data from retired applications
  • Enable secure, compliant application retirement that supports cloud and modernization initiatives
     

Why choose T-Systems for application portfolio rationalization?

Lower costs

Fewer apps

Reduce licenses, infrastructure and support costs

Data preserved

Previous history

Maintain secure access to historical business data

Future ready

Cloud ready

Simplify migration and modernization initiatives

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FAQ

What is application consolidation?

Application consolidation reduces redundant systems by identifying overlapping business capabilities and consolidating them into fewer, more efficient platforms, improving governance and reducing operational costs.

What does application retirement include?

We securely extract, archive and preserve business-critical data before retiring obsolete applications, ensuring continued access for operational, legal and audit purposes.

Will historical business data remain accessible?

Yes. Historical information is transferred into a central archive with search and reporting capabilities, allowing authorized users to access data after the original application has been retired.

How do you minimize project risks?

Our structured methodology identifies dependencies, validates business requirements, and carefully plans each transition to minimize disruption and maintains business continuity.

Which applications can be consolidated or retired?

Typical candidates include CRM, ERP, BI & Analytics, ITSM and custom-built legacy applications where duplicate functionality or historical data retention creates unnecessary complexity.

Why choose T-Systems?

T-Systems combines extensive infrastructure and application assessment experience with AI-driven discovery and analysis to identify dependencies, redundancies and consolidation opportunities across complex landscapes. Proven transformation methodologies and secure data management support informed decisions on consolidation, modernization and development while preparing applications for future cloud initiatives.

Ready for the next step?

Simplify your application landscape and accelerate modernization.
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