As major enterprise application vendors continue to shift their business models and investments to cloud applications, IT decision makers must make difficult choices about their IT footprint and strategy. With increasing pressure from vendors to move to emerging cloud applications, many are reticent to undertake a significant migration to an immature solution when their existing applications are mature and still supporting business needs. In analyzing the experience of Rimini Street customers taking a business-driven roadmap approach, Nucleus found they were able to reduce the portion of their IT budget and resources devoted to support of legacy applications while gaining access to support that better met their needs. This better enabled them to plan and negotiate investment in new technologies, develop a sustainable future plan for digital transformation on their own terms, and reduce disruption and risk.