Veldrith

Technology strategy platform

Technology strategy, built on your own data.

Veldrith turns your applications, infrastructure, vendors and spend into a living strategy and roadmap: what to invest in, what to modernize or move to the cloud, what to retire, and where AI fits. The work of a strategy consultancy, kept current every day.

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Strategy · Architecture · Infrastructure · AI · Modernization · Cost

Technology strategy · sample retailerFY2027–2029
Roadmap to the target state
  1. Now
    InfrastructureDecide to renegotiate or exit VMware before the February 2027 renewal
  2. Now
    ApplicationsRetire 501 low-value applications across every tier
  3. Next
    CloudMove 118 data-center applications to the cloud in three waves
  4. Next
    AIStart AI on the 174 high-value applications that are ready for it
  5. Later
    ArchitectureConsolidate to one core platform per business capability
Target portfolio1,495 applications
Invest 177 Keep 521 Modernize 296 Retire 501

Generated from our live demo’s sample retailer, not a real company.

The problem

Big technology decisions are made with a partial view

Cloud moves, platform choices, vendor renewals and AI bets are decided from interviews and spreadsheets that are out of date before the strategy is approved.

70%

of the software Fortune 500 companies use was built more than 20 years ago.

40–50%

of total technology investment spend can go to technical debt.

8–15×

higher VMware bills reported by European customers after Broadcom’s takeover, a strategy decision forced by a vendor.

Sources: McKinsey, “AI for IT modernization”; ECCO study reported by Techzine, May 2025.

What we do

The questions a strategy firm answers, answered from your live data

Seven practice areas share one connected picture of your applications, infrastructure, vendors, people and spend.

Where should technology take the business?

Technology and digital strategy

A current-state assessment of the whole estate, a target state agreed with leadership, and a sequenced roadmap with investment cases, kept current as things change.

  • Current state from your own systems, not interviews
  • Target-state portfolio and operating model
  • Roadmap in Now, Next and Later waves, with investment cases
Where does AI pay off first?

AI strategy

AI readiness for every application, use cases ranked by value and readiness, and the data and platform gaps to close first.

What runs where, and for how long?

Infrastructure and cloud strategy

Data center, hybrid and cloud target state, migration waves, hardware and software lifecycle, and exit options when a vendor changes the terms.

Which platforms do we bet on?

Architecture and vendor strategy

Platform consolidation, build-or-buy calls, vendor selection, concentration risk and renewals planned months ahead.

What do we keep, fix or retire?

Application modernization

A rationalization score for every application, and a ranked plan to retire, replace, refactor, replatform or rehost.

Where is money leaking?

Cost optimization

Unused licenses, seats held by people who left, overlapping security tools and renewals with price jumps.

What could hurt us next?

Risk and resilience

Unsupported infrastructure, fragile dependencies, high-vulnerability systems and the applications behind your support calls.

Why Veldrith

A strategy engagement ends. Veldrith keeps working.

The usual approach is a 12–16 week engagement that samples the critical systems and ends in a slide deck. Veldrith covers the whole estate and stays current while you execute.

Strategy engagement
Veldrith
Evidence
Interviews, surveys, samples
Your own systems: CMDB, billing, contracts, sign-ins, tickets, scanners
Coverage
Mostly Tier 1
Every application, server and contract, every tier
Output
A final deck
A target state, a roadmap and ranked moves with owners
Freshness
A snapshot
Refreshed daily, and on demand
During execution
The team leaves
Tracks progress, risk and results against the plan

Method

From current state to target state

Step 1

Assess

Read-only connections build a complete current state: applications, infrastructure, vendors, people, spend and incidents.

Step 2

Decide

Compare scenarios side by side: cloud or on-premises, build or buy, renew or exit, with cost, risk and the systems affected.

Step 3

Plan

A sequenced roadmap in waves, ordered by value and dependencies, with an owner and investment case for each move.

Step 4

Track

Progress, risk and realized value measured against the plan as your systems change.

Read-only access Runs in your own cloud account if you prefer Refreshed daily, hourly for incidents and calls Software only to start, nothing to install in stores or data centers

Infrastructure strategy

Decide what runs where, before a vendor decides for you

Veldrith maps every server, platform and contract to the applications that depend on it, so infrastructure choices are made with the full picture.

  • Data center, hybrid and cloud target state, with migration waves
  • Hardware and software lifecycle: what is out of support, and what is next
  • Vendor exposure and exit options when prices or terms change
  • Capacity, resilience and the business impact of each move

Scenario: the virtualization renewal

Sample retailer · 360 hosts · renewal due February 2027

OptionCost changeRiskTime
Renew as isHighLowNow
Renegotiate, shrink footprintMediumLow3–6 months
Move to another hypervisorLowMedium9–18 months
Move workloads to cloudMediumMedium12–24 months

Each option lists the applications affected, their dependencies and the waves to move them. Illustrative ratings for the sample company.

The evidence

Every recommendation traces back to a score

The Application Rationalization Score rates each application from 0 to 100 and shows what pulls it down. Strategy decisions rest on facts the board can check, not on opinion.

  • Tier, stack and hosting turn the score into a move: invest, keep, modernize or retire.
  • AI readiness, risk and run cost are scored the same way.
  • Every number traces back to the system it came from.
Business value30%
Technical health25%
Cost efficiency20%
Usage15%
Reliability10%
Invest 70+Maintain 50–69Modernize 35–49Retire under 35

Live demo · sample retailer

What a strategy looks like for a 1,500-application retailer

Figures from our live demo, built on a generated sample company, not a real customer.

1,495applications serving 121 business capabilities
177to invest in as core platforms
296to modernize or move to the cloud
501to retire, 498 of them in Tier 2–4
174high-value applications ready for AI
11infrastructure product lines past vendor support
Open the live demo

Switch between the CEO, CFO and CIO views, open the roadmap of moves, AI readiness and infrastructure lifecycle. Along the way the plan frees an estimated $123M a year.

Who it’s for

One set of facts, an answer for each executive

CEOIs technology moving the business where we want it to go?

Where technology spend goes, how much backs the strategy, and where AI can pay back first.

CIOWhat should my organization do next, and in what order?

The target state, the roadmap in waves, and progress against it.

CTOWhich platforms and infrastructure do we bet on?

Architecture, cloud and data center direction, lifecycle and vendor options.

CFOAre we investing in the right things, and what can we stop?

Investment cases, returns by move, and the spend that no longer earns its place.

Industries

Built for estates with decades of history

Retail

Store, merchandising, supply chain and e-commerce platforms, and the customer calls they generate.

Banking

Mainframe-era cores, cloud adoption, and a complete register of technology suppliers and assets for regulators.

Insurance

Policy and claims platforms layered over many acquisitions.

Healthcare

Clinical and back-office systems where downtime and security gaps carry real risk.

Get started

Your technology strategy in six weeks

Start with a fixed-price strategy diagnostic. We connect read-only to a handful of your systems and hand back your current state, a target state, and a roadmap your leadership team can act on.

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  • A walk through the live demo
  • The strategy questions on your agenda this year
  • What a six-week diagnostic would cover
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