A recent survey by MuleSoft and Deloitte revealed businesses use an average of 976 individual software applications. That’s a whole lot of technology—unless you’re in healthcare. In this business, ...

Application rationalization is a crucial step for government contracting organizations aiming to streamline operations, cut costs and embrace the latest technologies. However, transitioning from an ...

As organizations evolve, they build context-specific software applications to meet business needs. Over time, the environment for which these applications had been developed to execute business ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

While agencies often look for quick wins on new administration policies, the application rationalization process is not one of those areas, an official said. A central part of the administration’s ...

Why thoughtful application rationalization is critical to deal success in the face of strong financial headwinds.

Not enough agencies are rationalizing applications effectively before migrating them to the cloud. While the federal Cloud Smart strategy mandated app rationalization, not enough agencies have a good ...

Agency IT portfolio managers looking to move to the cloud now have a guide to help determine which applications should come along and which had better stay behind. “The speed of technological change ...

A combination of hyper-rationalization integration and pricing pressure demands by enterprises on application outsourcing (AO) providers have driven AO prices down for the third consecutive year, ...

Don’t you just love buzzwords and silver bullets? My first post on this blog was about the cloud as a silver bullet. And Scott Adams from Dilbert catches painful realities as well: see this strip. Now ...