TIME Model (Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, Eliminate) for App Portfolios
IN-COM October 19, 2026 Applications, Code Review, Data, Enterprise ModernizationThe application rationalization meeting starts at 9 AM. By 11 AM, the team has classified twelve of the four hundred...
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Why COBOL-to-Java Converters Produce “Jobol”, and How to Avoid It
IN-COM October 15, 2026 Application Modernization, Data Modernization, IndustriesThe conversion completed in three months. The Java application compiled, passed basic smoke tests, and was pronounced ready for deployment....
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Comprehension vs. Translation: What AI Actually Solves in COBOL Modernization
IN-COM October 13, 2026 Application Modernization, Artificial Intelligence (AI), COBOL Posts, Code Analysis, Impact AnalysisOn February 23, 2026, IBM’s share price fell 13 percent in a single day, its steepest one-day decline since October...
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Blast Radius Analysis: Estimating the Cost of a Bad Deploy
IN-COM October 12, 2026 Applications, Code Review, Compliance, Industries, Tech TalkA single bad deployment produced a $180,000 incident, not because the deployment was uniquely catastrophic, but because nothing in the...
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Dependency Wheel Diagrams for Enterprise Application Portfolios
IN-COM October 1, 2026 Application Modernization, Applications, Compliance, Enterprise Modernization, Impact Analysis Software, Legacy SystemsThe architecture review board has a network graph. It was built from the CMDB eighteen months ago, manually updated three...
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Big Bang vs. Incremental Modernization: A Decision Framework
IN-COM September 28, 2026 Application Modernization, Code Analysis, Compliance, Data Modernization, Enterprise Modernization, Impact Analysis, Information TechnologyEvery consultant will tell you incremental is safer. They are right, and they are also telling you what is always...
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