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Cost Containment Plans for Retiring Applications

Cost Containment Plans for Retiring Applications

by Colin Cecil | Oct 20, 2024 | Delivering Value, Service Delivery, Technical Debt

There is a common misconception that savings from an application retirement are realized at the time of retirement. In reality a large portion of the savings can be realized at the time of decommissioning, and with good planning savings can be realized earlier in the...
Accessing the Data Archives

Accessing the Data Archives

by Colin Cecil | Oct 19, 2024 | Best Practices, Data Governance, Service Delivery

When designing an archiving service a key consideration is the level of access available to archived assets. Whilst there is no single solution that meets all needs I’ll focus on the best practice we have used, which is centralized records management...
What Gets Archived?

What Gets Archived?

by Colin Cecil | Sep 3, 2024 | Best Practices, Data Governance, Service Delivery

Just as real world garbagemen have restrictions on what can be thrown into the municipal waste dump there are rules on what the IT Garbagemen will accept into the corporate archive. Our basic rules: The owner of the application or data asset must have been identified....

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