Definition of Business Application Life cycle stage status

[alihamzei]

Dear All, 

We are implementing APM for a company in the Netherland and I need some help in regards to Application Life cycle stage status definition. let me start elaborating my confusion and hope someone can help me. 

Life cycle Stage	Life cycle Stage Status	Definition (My interpretation)	Question
Operational	End of Support	Business Application still in-use however there is no support from the vendor or new feature.	1. What is the definition of the "End of support"?
Operational	Pending Retirement	Business Application is still in-use however there is a plan of the retirement in the pipeline.	1. pending retirement and obsolete can use interchangeably, What is the correct use case for each ? 2. What is the definition of "Pending retirement"?
End of Life	Obsolete	Business Application Reached its end of life however still few users are using it as a process dependent of this business application and successor business application hasn't yet developed/planned/unknown.	1. what is the definition of "obsolete"?
End of Life	Retired	Business Application has reached its end of life and retired.	1. what is the definition of "retired"?

[MarkPenn]

Doron brings up an important use case where the company has decided to move away from a given technology.  For example, we no longer want to use Oracle databases.  The Oracle versions are supported by the vendor, but any business apps that use Oracle need to be flagged in some way, so we can determine the work necessary to move away from Oracle.  Sometimes these lifecycle/status fields have nothing to do whatsoever with a software vendor.  TRM is a really useful (and fairly recent) feature in APM.  Mark Castoe did a good job in this video explaining and demonstrating this.  I suggest viewing it:  Establishing Your Technology Reference Model (youtube.com)

[mkrish_plat4mat]

Life cycle Stage	Life cycle Stage Status	Question	Comment
Operational	End of Support	1. What is the definition of the "End of support"?	The application is no longer in support by the Vendor. Example if you take a COTS application(BMC Remedy, Servicenow) the old versions of the application will not be in Support by the vendor due to much recent versions of the application available for use
Operational	Pending Retirement	1. pending retirement and obsolete can use interchangeably, What is the correct use case for each ?	Pending Retirement is from Strategic & Asset Management Perspective. If the Application passes the End of Support by Vendor or a From a Strategic perspective if we need to replace applications on certain versions to a newer one, we can use Pending Retirement to see it follows Organization change management soon.
2. What is the definition of "Pending retirement"?
End of Life	Obsolete	1. what is the definition of "obsolete"?	Obselete is if you have an application service and if you have moved the user base, integrations and its components to a newer version platform or to some other application which has replaced the older one, then the older one becomes Obselete. It will remain in Obselete for a fewer number of days until you start the retirement lifecycle management process for the older application service and its components
End of Life	Retired	1. what is the definition of "retired"?	Retired means it no longer available to end users and not serving any backend integrations. Only remaining process is start decommission for virtual/physical assets