What is our application roadmap?
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The business question What is our application roadmap? helps you understand the current and planned applications in the application roadmap. The visualization focuses on application lifecycles in order to understand which applications are approaching their end-of-life but have no successor applications planned. Review the application roadmap to identify gaps in application support and take corrective action for applications that are at risk.
This business question visualizes the application roadmap in a Gantt chart. The visualization shows when applications are planned to be implemented and when they will reach end-of-life. A green bar represents the application's start and end dates. The application's lifecycle phases may be displayed by a multi-colored bar below the green bar.
Mature organizations may have a lifecycle planning practice and capture the phases of a lifecycle. Application lifecycle phases may include: Plan, Pilot, Production, Sunset, Retired.
Symbols indicate whether an application is strategic for the business and its current object state. Black vertical arrows show the relationships between predecessor and successor applications. The arrow starts with the predecessor's end date and points to the successor application's start date.
Examine each application lifecycle and identify the applications that will reach end-of-life and have no successor applications defined. To define a successor application, go to the Data Source page and specify the successor for an application in the Successor column.
Do the most important applications have a planned migration to a predecessor application? Sort the data based on the application end date to understand which applications require immediate attention. Click the Filter 
button and select End Date in the Sort Order field. The applications that are strategic to the business will have a checkmark in the Strategic column, which indicates that these are most critical for the business. Recommendation: Assess which of the strategic applications will retire soon and review whether a successor application is defined. If no successor application is defined, you can consider whether the application should be migrated to a successor version or a different application. Or can the application be retired?
What is the impact of an application's migration on a business capability? Click the Filter button and select a business capability in the Business Capability field and set a checkmark for Show successor/predecessor applications. Recommendation: Review the visualization to understand which applications support a business capability and whether a successor application is defined for an application that will soon reach end-of-life. If no successor application is specified, go to the Data Source page and specify the successor for an application in the Successor column.
How will application support change over time? Click the Filter button and enter the current date in the Active Date field to understand the current and planned support that applications provide. Change the date to a date in the future to understand the future support of the business. Recommendation: Look for applications that will have reached their end-of-life and have no successor application defined. Consider whether a successor application should be defined or whether the application can be sundowned.