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Application Rationalisation

Reducing a portfolio assembled independently over decades — platform consolidation, technology lifecycle planning and technical debt reduction.

Driving application rationalisation, platform consolidation and technology lifecycle planning across a portfolio of 300-plus applications assembled independently over decades by agencies that each bought for themselves.

Rationalisation in a federated estate is not a de-duplication exercise. Two agencies running the same function on different platforms may both be right, because their obligations differ; the work is establishing which duplication is accidental and which is structural.