⚡ ROAD AR: APPLICATION RETIREMENT MADE SIMPLE ⚡

Decommission legacy applications while preserving access, compliance, and data integrity.

ROAD AR: Migrate. Modernize. Manage.

ROAD accelerates your move from legacy to cloud with zero-code pipelines, built-in governance, and measurable ROI.

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Business Challenges

Here are the problems that Application Retirement can tackle, both from a business and technical perspective.

High Infrastructure & Licensing Costs

  • Old applications often run on expensive legacy hardware or require costly software licenses.
  • Retirement eliminates the need to maintain these systems, reducing data center, storage, and software costs.

Complexity in IT Landscape

  • Legacy applications increase IT sprawl, making system integrations more difficult.
  • Retirement simplifies the application portfolio, reducing duplication and overlap.

Security & Compliance Risks

  • Unsupported applications often miss critical security patches.
  • Retirement solutions archive the data in a secure, governed repository that still meets compliance requirements (e.g., HIPAA, SOX, GDPR).

Ongoing Maintenance Burden

  • IT teams spend resources maintaining obsolete systems rather than focusing on innovation.
  • Retirement shifts data into standardized, easy-to-maintain formats, freeing staff for higher-value projects.

Data Accessibility Challenges

  • Business users may still need historical data for audits, legal inquiries, or reporting.
  • Retirement ensures data is retained in a searchable, accessible archive without the baggage of the original application.

M&A and Business Agility Limitations

  • Obsolete applications create barriers in mergers, acquisitions, or divestitures.
  • A retirement solution standardizes data access and reporting, streamlining due diligence and transitions.

Legal & Audit Readiness

  • Regulators and auditors may request legacy records years after system decommissioning.
  • Retirement solutions maintain an immutable, auditable archive with role-based access.

Vendor Dependency Risks

  • Some legacy systems are supported by niche vendors with shrinking expertise pools.
  • Retirement reduces dependency by moving data to open, widely supported platforms.

User Productivity Barriers

  • Accessing old applications is slow and requires specialized skills.
  • A retirement solution provides user-friendly interfaces and centralized access, improving productivity.

Cloud Migration Roadblocks

  • Legacy systems often cannot be moved to the cloud.
  • Retirement clears the way for cloud adoption by removing blockers tied to outdated technology.

How ROAD AR Works

1

Connect

Capture changes through several adaptive mechanisms.

2

Extract

Convert into strongly-typed change events with metadata & lineage.

3

Transform

Apply routing rules to land deltas into staging or directly merge into core models.

4

Archive

Execute warehouse-native MERGE with ordering, keys, and conflict policies.

5

Access

Run data quality checks and emit metrics & alerts.

Enterprise Challenges

ROAD Tackles the Hard Problems

Every enterprise faces these critical data gaps. ROAD provides proven solutions that deliver immediate impact and long-term value.

Cost

CHALLENGE

Legacy applications create ongoing, unnecessary expenses

SOLUTION

ROAD eliminates maintenance costs and licensing fees

$1M-$6M savings annually

Cloud Migrations

CHALLENGE

Moving everything to the cloud is costly and complex

SOLUTION

Retire outdated systems first, then migrate what matters

60-80% migration cost reduction

Acquisitions

CHALLENGE

M&A leaves enterprises with redundant applications and duplicate data

SOLUTION

ROAD consolidates and simplifies data landscape

Unified data architecture

Resources

CHALLENGE

The talent pool for legacy skills is shrinking

SOLUTION

ROAD automates away the need for specialized legacy expertise

Reduced dependency on scarce skills

The Cost of Inaction

40%

of IT budgets wasted on legacy maintenance and license costs

75%

increase in cyber risk from dormant systems

3×

longer cloud migration times without retirement

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Key Benefits

Cut costs by decommissioning unused or duplicate applications

Improve efficiency by streamlining application management

Maintain access without maintaining the full stack

Speed up IT modernization and cloud migration efforts

Minimize risk with full data lineage and audit logs

Ready to Retire Applications with Confidence?

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