Technical Debt Management

Technical debt doesn't stay still - it grows, compounds and quietly undermines your ability to transform. ABACUS surfaces your debt, quantifies its impact and gives your team a clear, actionable path to remediation - before it becomes a crisis.

Supporting 1000+ of EA & IT Professionals for over 20 years

HMRC
Bank Albilad
Saint Gobain
Arxada
CERN
Ameritas
KLP
University of Edinburgh
Volkswagen
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MTA
Sophos
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BOI
CLP
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BNP-Paribas
Staples
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Informatica
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Medimpact
MOdern Woodmen of America

From Technical Debt to Digital Transformation

EAs need proactive technical debt management to streamline modernization, accelerate innovation, and ensure long-term agility. Including the ability to:

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    Identify Redundant Systems

    Easily spot obsolete systems to streamline the technology and simplify maintenance.

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    Quantify Technical Debt Costs

    Understand the financial and operational impact of legacy systems for better decision-making.

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    Prioritize Modernization

    Focus efforts on the systems that deliver the highest value and reduce the most risk.

Risk-Based Application Portfolio Management & Technical Debt Reduction

  • Filter for high-risk systems: Quantify financial / reputational exposure if they fail.
  • Flag events that increase technical debt: New releases, end-of-support, project delays, key staff exits, and surface quick-win productivity opportunities.
  • Categorize systems: Retain, Refresh, Redesign, Retire or Tolerate / Invest / Migrate / Eliminate.
  • AI Assistant: Instantly surface debt insights without manual analysis

Measure Technical Debt Metrics

  • Real-Time Cost & Risk Insights: Automate technical debt scoring with no-code algorithms in ABACUS for instant, data-driven decision-making.
  • Connected, Collaborative Data Management: Seamlessly integrate systems and empower data owners to keep your EA catalog accurate and actionable.
  • Visualize Technical Debt: Use Gantt charts and heatmaps to spot debt hotspots and prioritize remediation.
  • Measure Impact: Track cost savings, risk reduction, and debt ratios to show measurable business value.
Technical Debt Cost

Supporting Enterprises for Over 20 Years

  • $1million

    In technical debt savings reported by organizations using ABACUS

  • 94%

    On average, 94% of organizations report improvements in visibility or control over IT assets and architecture

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Managing Technical Debt

Help decision-makers turn technical debt from a liability into an opportunity for modernization and innovation. 

In this eBook, you’ll discover what technical debt is, how to tackle it, and how to transform it into a catalyst for change. These approaches can be added to your own toolkit as you bring stakeholders on board.

“We can drill down on the relative vulnerability rating for a particular server in a few moments. This makes for much more intelligent decisions.”

– Infrastructure Architect

“Saved over €338k EUR in 6 months by reducing applications by 10%.”

– Infrastructure Architect

Latest Case Studies

HMRC Case Study

HM Revenue & Customs

HMRC replaced disconnected process documentation tools with a single enterprise architecture repository, creating a connected BPMN and ArchiMate practice across the organization.

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Bank Albilad

Bank Albilad integrated governance across every initiative on a single platform — cutting product launch times by 30% while strengthening regulatory compliance across the bank.

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Saint-Gobain

Saint-Gobain wanted to transform their Enterprise Architecture practice by embedding architects into agile delivery teams, adopting ArchiMate as a shared modeling language.