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WisdomX Orbis Overview

Most enterprises have a plan for building systems. Almost none have a reliable plan for retiring them. WisdomX Orbis is the first platform built specifically to identify, analyse, and safely decommission legacy IT systems, turning a costly, unmanaged backlog into a governed, data-driven programme.

What WisdomX Orbis Does​

Orbis connects to your existing IT estate, discovers every legacy, redundant, and obsolete system, and presents a ranked list of decommissioning candidates, with the cost, risk, and recommendation your team needs to make confident decisions.

Once a candidate is approved, our exclusive partner platform Snapshot derisks the decommission by capturing a complete archive (context, code, data, and documents) into cold storage before the system is closed. Nothing is lost. Everything is recoverable.

The platform works in three stages:

  • Discover — automated ingestion of your asset estate, surfacing legacy, redundant, obsolete, and idle systems with their real running costs
  • Analyse — risk scoring across compliance, security, and operational dimensions, with a dependency map showing exactly what each system connects to
  • Decide — your team reviews the candidates and approves decommissioning with a single decision. Snapshot handles the rest.

What the Platform Delivers​

  • A live count of legacy systems identified, with new discoveries flagged weekly
  • Potential annual savings quantified in pounds, broken down by infrastructure, licensing, and support costs
  • High-risk system count with compliance, security, and operational risk breakdowns
  • Lifecycle status for every system: Active, Redundant, Obsolete, or Decommissioned
  • A system dependency map showing traffic, latency, error rates, and inferred connections
  • Safe decommissioning via Snapshot: context, code, data, and documents archived to cold storage before closure
  • Carbon and energy savings calculated from CPU usage, unused data, and obsolete background processes (coming soon)

Who It Is Built For​

WisdomX Orbis is designed for enterprise technology and finance leaders who are accountable for IT estate decisions:

  • Chief Technology Officers and IT Directors managing estates with significant legacy system debt
  • Enterprise Architects who need visibility of system dependencies before making closure decisions
  • Finance and Procurement teams quantifying the cost of running systems that should have been retired
  • Risk and Compliance officers who need to understand the security and compliance exposure of their legacy estate
  • Private Equity portfolio teams managing technology assets across multiple businesses
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Not a developer tool. Orbis is built for decision-makers. The platform surfaces complex infrastructure data as plain-language recommendations and financial figures, with no technical background required to use it.

The Problem It Solves​

Between 70 and 80 percent of enterprise IT budgets are consumed by maintaining systems that should have been retired. Legacy systems accumulate silently, each one carrying ongoing licence costs, support overhead, compliance exposure, and security risk.

The harder problem is that nobody knows exactly which systems are safe to close, in what order, and what will break if they do. Without that visibility, decommissioning programmes stall. Costs compound. Risk grows.

WisdomX Orbis solves the visibility problem. It tells you what you have, what it is costing you, what risk it carries, and what is safe to close, backed by live data, not spreadsheets.

What Changes When You Use It​

Without Orbis, decommissioning decisions are made on instinct, with incomplete data, by people who are not sure what depends on what. Projects overrun. Hidden dependencies surface at the worst moment.

With WisdomX Orbis:

  • Your team sees every legacy system, its running cost, its risk level, and its recommendation in one dashboard
  • Decisions are made on evidence: cost breakdowns, risk scores, dependency maps
  • Approvals are recorded against the system, creating a clear decision trail for governance and audit
  • Snapshot derisks every approved closure: nothing is deleted until everything is safely archived
  • Carbon and energy impact is tracked automatically as systems are retired (coming soon)