Webinar slides describing the high costs of maintaining legacy applications and the opportunity made available by application decommissioning to free data from legacy apps, remain in compliance, and redirect valuable resources to strategic IT projects. Includes case studies based on EMC's InfoArchive platform.

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Application Retirement: Stop Spending Millions
Supporting Legacy Applications
Bryant Bell
Senior Product Marketing Manager,
EMC Enterprise Content Division
(ECD)
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Andrew Bates
Solutions Director,
Flatirons
Julie Fouque
Marketing Director,
Flatirons

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Turning Content into Knowledge®
Andrew Bates
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Bryant Bell
Enterprise Content Division
“We take content seriously.”
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Today’s Sponsors & Presenters
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Agenda
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Changing the Discussion
and the Application
Maintenance Burden1
Definitions:
Legacy Applications and
Application Decommissioning2
Getting Started with
Application Decommissioning3
Value:
Unlocking Application Data4
Choice:
One Size Doesn’t Fit All5
Compliance:
Preserving Data Integrity6

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Changing the Discussion
IT TRANSFORMATION JOURNEY

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12
Week Time
To Value
$3.8M
Available Annually
By Eliminating
1 Main App
80+
More Apps To Be
Consolidated Or
Decommissioned
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The Application Maintenance Burden
67% OF IT BUDGET SPEND
T-30
YEARS
T-25
YEARS
T-20
YEARS
T-15
YEARS
T-10
YEARS
T-5
YEARS
TODAY
Internet of Things
Web-based
SharePoint
Productivity (e.g. Office)
Client Server
Content-Centric
Email
Collaboration (File-based)
ERP
Mainframe
0%
70%
ITMAINTENANCESPENDAS%OFTOTALITBUDGET
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7. Background
Definitions
Legacy applications
• Obsolete
• Redundant
• Necessary
Application decommissioning
• Turn off old technology
• Preserve the data for use
• Shared platform for all
decommissioned applications
• Repeatable
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8. Facts about legacy applications
SOURCE: NCC survey of companies with over 50 IT staff
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9. IT Budget Challenges
The burden of legacy applications
• No competitive advantage to be
gained, table stakes
• Minimize spend to achieve
“acceptable” service levels
• Most infrastructure and maintenance
of application spend falls into this
category
• Ever increasing spend
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10. Application Decommissioning
Redefine the Pie
Technology investments that lead to
or support new products / services
that lead to sustainable competitive
advantage
Technology investments that lead to or
support new products / services that
lead to sustainable competitive
advantage
• Make good investment (ROI) decisions
• Can lead to competitive advantage –
but often targeted at parity with
competitors
• Reduce and Shift the spend
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11. Getting Started
If you meet one or more of these criteria you may be a very good candidate for
application decommissioning.
(for Banks)
Need to Support
FDIC
Requirements (e.g. Insurance,
Consumer Packaged
Goods, etc.)
Litigation Prone
(e.g. Financial Services
Pharmaceutical, and
Government)
Regulated Current or Future
M&A Activity
Expected
Need to Securely
Maintain Old
Application Data
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12. Business Value
Determine the business impact and value
• Talk to the business and SME’s
• Determine how the application is currently used
• What is the type and nature of data?
• Discuss governance climate
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13. Plan for the Data
How should the data be managed?
• How can you get the data out of the application?
• Determine how to model the data (in xml)
• Understand the size and magnitude of the data
• Identify retention policies and desires
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14. Consider the Technology
• “To Be” Application Requirements – search, drilldown
views and reporting
• Production environment
• Architecture
• Non-functional requirements
What is the current IT landscape?
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15. The Big Question
• Make a short list of candidate
applications based on data state
and business value
• Determine the costs to:
– Establish the environment
– Extract, Transform and Load the data
– Configure and develop the
application to meet requirements
• Evaluate cost to maintain vs cost to
decommission
• Proof of concept
Is the cost to decommission worth it?
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Application Decommissioning for InfoArchive
XML is vendor-neutral, self-
describing, ubiquitous, future proof.
Schema-less noSQL XML database
vastly simplifies ETL. No target
schema, ultimate flexibility.
SQL Gateway enables access
by BI applications.
Archive structured and unstructured
with a single solution.
Iterative approach facilitates
EMC training your team
to own archiving process in future.
Low-cost, low-risk, simple,
extremely fast to implement.
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17. The Application Decommissioning Machine
App 1
App 2
InfoArchive
User
Access
Transformed into XML
 Self-describing
 Efficient
 Future Proof
Any source data:
 Mainframe
 RDBMS
 Document Images
 Print Streams
 Unstructured data
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EMC’S next generation software platform for
compliant application data preservation.
EMC INFOARCHIVE
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OPTIMIZECOST TAKE-OUT IT Transformation
Decommission
Reduce Costs
Application, Infrastructure &
Storage
Right Size
Data Access
Historical Context & New
Perspectives
PRESERVE COMPLIANCE
Beyond cost savings
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ARCHITECTED FOR VALUE
• Don’t simply architect the past, re-draw the
boundaries
• Make the data available to more people, with full
control
• Put the data to work in new ways: make
accessible to other applications, analysis,
historical context
• Re-envision application data by user, unhook from
function
• Big Data Lake ready
APPLICATION DATA
UNLOCKED
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12
Siloed Applications
Decommissioned
EPIC
Regulated Patient
Information
Resurfaced
360°
View of the Patient
to the Clinician
Enterprise
Medical Record
Application
Complete &
Patient CentricInfoArchive
Immunizations
X-Rays
Treatment History
Test Results
Progress Notes
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ALL BASES
COVERED ARCHITECTED FOR CHOICE
• One size does not fit all: multiple archive
strategies - optimized to source application
• All application data: structured and unstructured
• Create and manage one central pool of
application data
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+30B
Records Migrated
60k
User Accesses
Per Day
80+
Information Types
Archived Every Day
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ARCHITECTED FOR COMPLIANCE
• Compliance is built-in – not an after-thought
• No burden. Compliance runs in the background.
• Preserves fully auditable chain-of-custody
• Designed for long-term preservation: future-proof
• Prepared for any discovery request
DATA INTEGRITY
PRESERVED
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Changing the Discussion
IT TRANSFORMATION JOURNEY

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For more information:
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email: InfoArchive@FlatironsSolutions.com
Andrew Bates: Andrew.Bates@FlatironsSolutions.com