2009 Agenda for Applications: Cut Costs While Growing the Business

ID Number: G00168631

12 August 2009

Susan Landry

In 2009, Gartner's research for application leaders will focus on cost optimization, key application initiatives that drive business performance effectiveness, and emerging trends and technologies.

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Table of Contents

Analysis

1.0

Developing the Application Research Agenda

1.1		Operational Priority No. 1: Reducing Operating Costs
1.2		IT Management Priority No. 1: Delivering Projects That Enable Business Growth
1.3		Continued Reduction in Custom-Developed Solutions

2.0

Applications Research Agenda for 2009

2.1		Role-Specific Agenda for Application Leadership
2.2		Research Agenda for Application Strategy, Governance and Management
2.3		Research Agenda for Business Applications
2.4		Research Agenda for Application Architecture, Application Development, Web Technologies and Integration

3.0

Application Leaders' Imperatives and Challenges

3.1

Key Initiatives Are Foundational and Persistent

3.1.1		Application Architecture
3.1.2		Application Modernization
3.1.3		Application, Process and Data Integration
3.1.4		Customer Experience Management
3.1.5		ERP, SCM and CRM Selection (SaaS or On-Premises)
3.1.6		MDM
3.1.7		Packaged Application Upgrades
3.1.8		Web Application Development and Management

4.0

Recommendations

List of Figures

	Figure 1.	Percentage of Operational Priorities Ranked No. 1 by Application Leaders

	Figure 2.	Percentage of IT Management Priorities Ranked No. 1 by Application Leaders

	Figure 3.	Shift in Most-Preferred Method for Developing Solutions

	Figure 4.	The Application Activity Cycle

	Figure 5.	Key Initiative Priorities

2009 Agenda for Applications: Cut Costs While Growing the Business
12 August 2009

2009 Agenda for Applications: Cut Costs While Growing the Business
24 March 2009

Business Applications
Reducing or Controlling Costs
Web Site Development Tools
Application Development
Application Architecture
Customer Experience Management
Applications Roles
Master Data Management
Application Management
Application Governance
Application Strategy
Driving Business Growth
IT Modernization

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