Rationalizing a thousand-application estate

Large estates don't need discovery on every application. They need an honest inventory, a way to tier it, and deep analysis only where a decision depends on it.

Start with what you have

Every large organization has an application list: a business continuity spreadsheet, a CMDB export, a survey from a past program. ARC imports it as it is, flags duplicates, and marks every value as imported until its owner confirms it. Nothing is thrown away, and nothing is trusted blindly.

Provenance is the point

Portfolio tools fail when nobody believes the data. In ARC every field says where it came from: entered by an owner, imported, answered in intake, or measured by discovery. When discovery runs again, measured fields refresh and owner edits stay.

A thousand rows you can't trust is worse than a hundred you can.

Spend discovery where it pays

• Tier by value and health. Each application placed on a value-against-health grid, with an ARC suggestion beside the owner's own plan.
• Find the gaps fast. High-priority apps without a DR plan, unsupported versions, sensitive data without MFA, apps with no owner.
• Go deep selectively. Run discovery on the applications a modernize, merge or retire decision actually depends on.

What you get

Timelines depend on access to code and people; we confirm them on the scoping call.