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App Rationalization

Your application portfolio has grown faster than your ability to manage it. We start with 40 free hours of senior consultant review to show you where the waste is, with no cost and no commitment.

Claim your 40 free hours

How the free review works

1. Discover

3. Rationalize

1. Discover

We pull your app inventory, contracts, and license data. About 2 hours of your team's time.

2. Map

3. Rationalize

1. Discover

We group your apps by function, owner, spend, and usage. About 3 hours of your team's time.

3. Rationalize

3. Rationalize

3. Rationalize

We find the redundancies and the consolidation plays worth making. About 2 hours of your team's time.

4. Recommend

About six weeks, start to finish

3. Rationalize

You get a prioritized list of opportunities with savings estimates, walked through in a 1 hour readout.

About six weeks, start to finish

About six weeks, start to finish

About six weeks, start to finish

Kickoff in week 0, discovery in weeks 1 and 2, mapping in weeks 3 and 4, a draft review in week 5, and your executive readout in week 6.

No cost, no commitment

About six weeks, start to finish

About six weeks, start to finish

The 40 hours are on us, with no procurement cycle. If the findings are useful, we talk about Phase 2. If not, you keep the deliverable.

Why Spark for app rationalization

Senior-only delivery

Senior-only delivery

Senior-only delivery

Every hour you get is a senior consultant who has run healthcare IT from the inside. No junior analysts learning on your dime.

Vendor-agnostic

Senior-only delivery

Senior-only delivery

We don't resell software, so our recommendations are clean, defensible, and free of channel bias.

Proven at scale

Senior-only delivery

Proven at scale

Combined, our team's experience spans 100+ hospitals and 5,000+ clinics, from regional health systems to top-25 academic medical centers.

A real example: a Philadelphia-area health system

330 apps reviewed

170+ redundant or unused

170+ redundant or unused

Third-party applications assessed across the health system's portfolio.

170+ redundant or unused

170+ redundant or unused

170+ redundant or unused

More than half of their third-party apps turned out to be redundant or unused.

52% smaller portfolio

170+ redundant or unused

7-figure annual savings

The portfolio reduction the health system achieved.

7-figure annual savings

7-figure annual savings

7-figure annual savings

Identified in licensing and support contracts alone.

3 vendor consolidations

7-figure annual savings

3 vendor consolidations

The ones the IT team had always wanted to make.

A funded program

7-figure annual savings

3 vendor consolidations

The CIO used the business case to fund a full rationalization program.

Ready to see where the waste is?

Tell us a little about your application portfolio and we'll get your 40 free hours on the calendar.

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