The business question What are our investment and retirement candidates? helps you to decide where to focus rationalization activities by analyzing applications on multiple dimensions in the context of a TIME ( Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, Eliminate ) quadrant. Understanding the application score will help in making decisions about whether it is best to keep an application ( Tolerate ), invest in the application ( Invest ), consider the application as a migration candidate ( Migrate ), or sundown the application ( Eliminate ).

The business question reveals which applications may qualify as candidates to invest or retire in order to meet rationalization goals. By comparing recommendations with real-world application scores, this business question ensures that you scrutinize investment decisions from different perspectives.

To open this business question, go to the left navigation panel, click to expand Business Questions, click to expand Rationalization and click What are our investment and retirement candidates? 

The Applications Providing Business Capabilities (TIME Analysis) view shows the applications in a TIME ( Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, Eliminate.The quadrant shows all applications that provide business capabilities in the company. Applications that do not have the required business and technical scores are not evaluated.

The analysis looks at the business and technical scores of applications and places each application into one of four quadrants Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, or Eliminate. At the same time, the report colors the applications according to the value specified for the Recommendation attribute.

This allows you to assess whether the strategic recommendation of the application reflects the real world business and technical score. Understanding the application score will help in making decisions about whether it is best to keep an application ( Tolerate ), invest in the application ( Invest ), consider the application as a migration candidate ( Migrate ), or sundown the application ( Eliminate ).

The report shows applications as bubbles analyzed across 4 dimensions. Point to an application to show a tooltip with the following information: Application name, business score (BS), technical score (TS), Recommendation value, current year operational expenditure (OpEx).

• The bubble size indicates the application cost based on the current year operational expenditure (OpEx).
• The bubble color indicates the correspondence of the business and technical scores with the strategic recommendation specified for the application
  • The bubble is green if one of the following criteria applies:
    1. technical and business scores are less than 2.5 and the application's Recommendation attribute = Eliminate.
    2. technical score is >= 2.5 and the business score is <= 2.5 and Recommendation = Tolerate 
    3. technical score is <= 2.5 and the business score is >= 2.5 and Recommendation = Migrate 
    4. technical score is >= 2.5 and the business score is >= 2.5 and Recommendation = Invest.
  • The bubble is red if none of the above criteria applies.
  • The bubble is grey if the Recommendation attribute is not defined for the application.
• The X-axis value is the weighted business score based on application indicators
  • BS - Business Relevance: 0 = Unknown / 1 = Business Operating / 2 = Business Enabling / 3 = not applicable / 4 = Business Evolving / 5 = Mission Critical.
  • BS - Numbers of Users: 0 = 0 / 1 = 1-10 / 2 = 11-100 / 3 = 101-1.000 / 4 = 1.001-10.000 / 5>10.000
  • BS - Ownership: 0 = Unknown / 1 = other role / 2 = not applicable / 3 = IT Owner / 4 = Business Owner / 5 = Business Owner and IT Owner.
  • BS - Provided Capabilities: (0 = 0 / 1 = 1 / 2 = 2-3 / 3 = 4-5 / 4 = 6-7 / 5>7)
  • BS - Using Organizations: (0 = 0 / 1 = 1 / 2 = 2-3 / 3 = 4-5 / 4 = 6-7 / 5>7)
• The Y-axis is the weighted technical score based on application indicators
  • TS - Application Age (months): 0 > 120 / 1 = 73-120 / 2 = 49-72 / 3 = 25-48 / 4 = 12-24 / 5 < 24
  • TS - Architecture Type: 0 = unknown / 1 = Mainframe / 2 = Distributed / 3 = Client Server / 4 = Stand Alone / 5 = Cloud Based ext. Webpage.
  • TS - Vendor Support Lifespan (months): 0 <= 0 / 1 = 1-3 / 2 = 4-9 / 3 = 10-18 / 4 = 19-24 / 5 > 24
  • TS - Development Type: 0 = unknown / 1 = not applicable / 2 = Bespoke / 3 = COTS-Customized / 4 = not applicable / 5 = COTS-Configured 
  • TS - Interfaces: 0 = 0 / 1 = 1 / 2 = 2-3 / 3 = 4-6 / 4 = 7-9 / 5 > 10

Understand which applications are currently active. Select Active in the Object State field. Switch to Plan to review whether the strategic recommendation of planned applications reflects the real world business and technical score.

Understand which applications support a specific business capability. Select a business capability in the Business Capabilities filter field to show only the applications supporting that business capability.

Understand which applications are owned by a specific organization. Select an organization in the Business Owner filter field to show only applications owned by the organization.

Understand which applications are assigned to a specific application portfolio. Select an application group in the Application Group filter field to show the applications assigned to the application group.