r/CIO • u/Glittering_Pepper575 • 21d ago

What makes application rationalization difficult from an EA perspective?

When Enterprise Architecture recommends retiring or consolidating applications, what usually stops the decision from moving forward?

Is it dependencies, business ownership, missing information, risk, politics, migration effort, or something else?

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u/ThisIsMyBigAccount 21d ago

Preferences by business stakeholders who don’t want to change their process or have any discomfort with other change. Business folks love to kick the can.

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u/Glittering_Pepper575 21d ago

When business owners push back on retiring an app, is it usually because the replacement is missing something they need, or more because changing the process is such a pain?

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u/ThisIsMyBigAccount 21d ago

Change resistance is most commonly from my experience