The business question What is our roadmap? provides an overview of application lifecycles including the lifecycles of the predecessor and successor applications. It helps you to know which applications are approaching end-of-life but have no defined successor application so that you can plan, communicate, and take corrective action for applications that are at risk.
lifecycle
The lifecycle describes the planned schedule of a current real-world object in different lifecycle phases of a product. Lifecycle phases will be different depending on the object class. Lifecycle phases for an application are Pilot, Production, Retired, and Sunset.
application
An application is a complete installation of a software offering a functionality to an end user. The application might consist of or require other technical components to run.