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Application rationalization

Most application rationalizations name what to cut, then stall. Ours is tech-enabled and fast, surfacing realizable opportunities you can act on.

// The challenge

Rationalization that stalls

Most rationalizations take 6 to 12 months on manual spreadsheets, then hand over a cut list that stalls, because no one can get it accepted.

  • Slow, manual and spreadsheet-driven
  • A cut list with no buy-in
  • So nothing actually changes

// Our approach

Realizable opportunities, fast

Our application portfolio rationalization puts tech enablement behind the inventory, then surfaces realizable opportunities, not a cut list.

  • Tech-enabled inventory, fast
  • Findings and assumptions, validated
  • Finding, impact and remediation

// Why Pivot Point Consulting

The uncommonly agile difference

Every finding comes with its impact on the organization and a suggested remediation; the business case your team needs to socialize the change and get it accepted. We move in 10 to 12 weeks, not the 6 to 12 months manual rationalizations take.

It is not a one-off. Our healthcare application rationalization leaves a smart repository that your team can run AI against to test every future purchase against your portfolio, and we will even go with you to pursue opportunities under a value-based, at-risk contract.

// Success story

Results that speak for themselves

Real outcomes from our application rationalization clients.

Read more success stories
MUSC Health
100+apps; ~$1.7M saved over 10 yrs

Success story · Application rationalization

MUSC targets 100+ applications to retire

We helped MUSC identify realizable opportunities and prioritize more than 100 applications for retirement across its portfolio.

MetroHealth
Up to 500Epic tickets handled a month

Success story · Managed services

MetroHealth reclaims time for IT priorities

A custom-managed service absorbed routine Epic tickets so MetroHealth's own team could refocus on strategic IT priorities and projects.

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// What we cover

From inventory to realizable wins

Tech-enabled inventory

Tech enablement accelerates the inventory. We collate every application fast, then rapidly share what we're seeing and the assumptions we're making, so you can validate or invalidate them early and the whole engagement moves in weeks, not months.

  • Tech-enabled application inventory
  • Rapid findings and assumptions
  • Your validation or invalidation
  • Weeks, not months
Phone with floating app icons, healthcare application rationalization
Pivot Point Consulting understood we needed a strategic approach to planning and executing application rationalization and decommissioning. Using their proven methodology, they worked with us to establish a programmatic approach, enabling MUSC to manage IT assets efficiently. Because of this work, we are able to realize immediate and long-term savings, and have the capability to do this work ourselves.
Amy Bandy-Taylor
Applications Architect, Information Solutions, Medical University of South Carolina
// FAQs

Application rationalization FAQs

Our most frequently asked application rationalization questions, answered.

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It is a structured review of your application portfolio that identifies realizable opportunities, what to decommission, consolidate or invest in, with the impact on the organization mapped for each.

//Work with us

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