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Retire Legacy Applications Seamlessly: Introducing Our Application Retirement Whitepaper

Businesses often burden themselves with legacy applications that no longer serve their strategic objectives. Application retirement, also known as application decommissioning or sunsetting, offers a solution by gracefully transitioning from outdated systems to modern, efficient architectures. Our whitepaper explores the benefits and strategies behind this critical process. Leveraging Digital Archiving Solutions Application retirement concerns the separation of applications and the information stored in them. Indeed, this information has to be available longer than the application itself. Our approach to application retirement revolves around leveraging advanced digital archiving solutions. Our platform allows organizations to seamlessly transfer all data and content—including images, videos, and documents—from legacy applications to a standardized archive. This archive ensures data integrity and accessibility, allowing for easy searchability and reuse in future applications. Our solution extends beyond application retirement, catering to diverse use cases such as preserving digitally signed documents and enabling efficient Quality and Assurance (QeA). A user-friendly dissemination interface empowers users to access archived data effortlessly.   What Does It Do? Our application retirement solution delivers tangible benefits: Data Preservation: By retiring legacy applications, businesses can save crucial data and documents in a secure archiving environment.  IT System Optimization: Removing obsolete applications leads to streamlined IT systems and reduced operational costs.     Compelling Reasons to Retire Applications There are several compelling reasons to embrace application retirement but the most important one are regulatory reasons. Compliance initiatives like DORA and NIS2 require the financial industry and other important sectors to implement secure data archiving and limited access to sensitive information. Besides, transitioning to cloud-based platforms like SAP/HANA or Salesforce becomes smoother when legacy data is archived effectively. You might also opt to modernize your legacy applications; however, this might result in high IT costs. Adopting new solutions often requires retiring older applications while retaining critical data, so it’s a good move to archive this data. A nice extra to eliminating outdated applications reduces system maintenance costs and optimizes resource allocation.   Conclusion Application retirement is applicable in every business context. As information can be stored in very disparate systems, combining it in one single archive is not only cost-effective but also a blessing for users. Add to this the disappearance of the need for knowledge of old systems and the accompanying maintenance, and the balance for the solution’s advantage can only be positive.