Enterprise Application Rationalization
The Challenge:
Following an aggressive cycle of multi-national M&A activity, a premier Global Consumer Retail Group ($4.8B annual run-rate) inherited an opaque, fragmented tech architecture spanning 640+ decentralized software applications. Unmapped shadow IT systems compromised regulatory corporate security, siloed transactional business functions, and generated severe software license inflation. Cross-departmental functional redundancies accounted for massive infrastructure operational overhead, directly degrading financial operating margins.