The business question What are our investment and retirement candidates? examines recommendations to invest in or retire applications. The recommendations are calculated in the context of a TIME (Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, Eliminate) quadrant. The quadrant shows all applications that provide business capabilities. The applications are analyzed across 4 dimensions to reveal application investment and retirement candidates in support of rationalization goals. This business question enables you to scrutinize investment decisions by comparing recommendations with actual application assessments.

• The Y-axis represents a weighted score based on application age, architecture and development type, vendor support, and interfaces.
• The X-axis represents a weighted score based on business relevance, number of users, ownership, business capabilities provided by the applications, and organizations using the applications.
• The circle size indicates the application's operational expenditure (OPEX) of the current year.
• The color indicates whether the application's current score aligns with the application's recommended score, whereby green indicates the current and recommended scores are aligned, red indicates they are not aligned, and grey indicates no recommendation score was defined.

Applications in the bottom left quadrant represent good rationalization candidates with low business and technical scores. Those in the top right quadrant represent good investment candidates with high scores. All applications without the required business and technical scores are not evaluated.

To understand how business capabilities are impacted by recommendations: Select a business capability in the Business Capability field to show the applications that support the business capability. Assess the recommendations to retire or invest in applications in terms of how they will impact the business.