Taming Application Sprawl

May 10, 2015

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  • Facing financial pressure during the great recession and the need to cut budgets, Cornell focused on reducing application support to achieve savings in the IT area.
  • IT chose an application portfolio management approach, which led to the Application Streamlining Initiative to tame “application sprawl” across campus.
  • ASI had three goals: synchronize IT and business prioritiesmanage apps as key assets; and reduce total cost of ownership of the apps portfolio.

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