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# Business Application Lifecycle Management services - Legacy

# Business Application Lifecycle Management services - Legacy {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Zurich
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* Updated July 31, 2025
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* ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 1 minute to read

You can order a business application for your enterprise like any other service catalog item and register it as a new application in the application portfolio.

Enterprise Architecture integrates with Service Catalog to create a service catalog category called Business Application Lifecycle Management Services.

Use this service catalog category to request and register a business application in Enterprise Architecture. As you on-board a new application into the Enterprise Architecture inventory, the machine-learning business application solution predicts and suggests an appropriate category for the application. For more information, see [Predictive Intelligence for Application Portfolio Management](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/WJCER8bLcfNyYaYmI7ZjFA "The Predictive Intelligence for Enterprise Architecture uses machine-learning algorithms to predict, suggest, and drive the data outcome of the new application that is onboarded.").

Furthermore, you can also use this service catalog category to request a review of a technology change in the business application with the IT Architecture Review Board.

You can also use the business application lifecycle management service catalog to decommission an application that you no longer require. Proper decommissioning of an application takes care of:

* Archival of data generated when the application was in use.
* Uninstall all related software that the application depended on.
* Removal of any hardware dependency for the software.
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**Related tasks**   

* [Request or retire an application - Legacy](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/Nx3Ig8bcktQSf1HvFt_J~g "If you are an Enterprise Architecture user, you should use the Business Application Lifecycle Management services to request or register a new business application for your business. You can request a business application like you place an order for any other service catalog item.")
* [Manage service requests - Legacy](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/KdvlXRsLil8dfR0Z5AwJuw "You can approve requests raised by an Enterprise Architecture user either for a new business application or retire an application that the user no longer requires.")
* [Request an architecture review - Legacy](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/WdK5MbJqkVXtRFs268NPbg "You can request a review of your new architecture design proposal on the technology of a business application by presenting it to the architecture review board.")