⚡ 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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