Flexera Sees BDNA Acquisition Driving App Rationalization
IT organizations have had a vested interest in trying to rationalize the number of applications that need to be supported to reduce the licensing fees and minimize total cost of operations. That’s not always been an easy goal to achieve, however, because individual lines of business inside an organization are often overly attached to an application even when there is another one being used by the application that provides the same functionality. But now that IT organizations are being tasked with lifting and shifting applications into the cloud, a unique opportunity to rationalize many applications is presenting itself.