Application retirement is a growing reality for many organizations as they grow, merge or otherwise consolidate operations. The number of enterprise systems that IT departments support continues to grow. Applications that are candidates for retirement consume computing resources, storage, and manpower to maintain yet provide very little business benefit to the organization.

Application retirement is a viable strategy for eliminating redundant legacy applications, thereby improving operational efficiency and reducing costs.  By reducing the number of applications within the IT infrastructure, DBAs can concentrate on maintaining critical business applications with the highest value to the organization instead of compiling data from disparate sources.