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Gartner Research VP, Distinguished Analyst Yvonne Genovese discusses processes involved in application overhaul projects.
19 August 2010
Several hundred Gartner clients participated in a series of Webinars on the Applications Overhaul theme run in December 2009 and March 2010. Questions raised show how the applications overhaul message is being received.
16 August 2010
For any IT organization with developed applications or customized packages, the application maintenance team represents a growing cost. CIOs need to spend some time understanding what they currently do, and directing desired behavior.
9 August 2010
IT debt -- the cost of dealing with delayed and deferred maintenance of the application portfolio -- threatens to grow to $1 trillion globally by 2015. IT management teams must measure the level of IT debt in their organizations and develop a strategy to deal with it.
26 July 2010
Evaluating alternative software deployment options involves collating input and requirements from multiple stakeholders. This research offers a structured framework for making a balanced assessment.
22 July 2010
This research provides an overview of application consolidation, identifying solution modes that can be applied to deliver application consolidation. It highlights the major differences between the consolidation of core applications and contextual applications.
15 July 2010
By 2015, at least 50% of large organizations will be regularly assessing business value relative to application costs and risks as part of the IT budget process.
9 July 2010
As the proportion of the IT budget consumed by applications increases, CIOs need to invest more of their time ensuring that the money is being spent wisely. By following the guidelines in this research, CIOs and their management teams can ensure that they are fully informed.
9 July 2010
IT organizations are fraught with short-term thinking. The result may be a train wreck for many organizations. Gartner presents 10 signs to which companies need to pay attention before it is too late to improve their IT environments.
14 June 2010
The real goal of application overhaul is lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and improved agility of the application portfolio. These nine critical success factors (CSFs) will help CIOs and application managers to establish an application overhaul program.
3 June 2010
IT organizations often have problems getting maintenance project funding to keep applications technically up-to-date or on the vendor's latest version. As the list of deferred maintenance grows, the risk of a catastrophic failure increases.
30 March 2010
This document provides a framework for the lifetime total cost of a business application. The framework will help CIOs, architects, designers and business managers make more-informed decisions when considering new applications and when reviewing the existing portfolio.
29 July 2010
Evolving IT for a complex business demand a balanced approach and prioritizing limited resources. Portfolio management techniques help explore the available options and guide investment choices.
29 July 2010
Effective use of the application portfolio is an imperative for organizations that are rapidly evolving.
28 June 2010
Application overhaul requires a strong governance process. If an application governance process doesn't already exist, then there are some key factors that must be addressed to govern an overhaul effort.
1 July 2010
Application standardization is an approach to application overhaul that reduces the complexity of the application landscape by getting as many groups as possible to use the same application for the same task.
28 June 2010
Through 2015, the major business driver of enterprisewide application overhaul projects will be a desire for process and information standardization.
12 May 2010
As market competition, customer and constituency pressures intensify and supply networks become more volatile, organizations should take an "outside in" view of business applications.
7 September 2010
IT modernization represents one of several work streams associated with an application overhaul initiative. IT modernization addresses the interrelationship of application and infrastructure components that must be considered together when making modernization decisions.
18 August 2010
Several vendors offer products to migrate IBM mainframe workloads to lower-cost platforms with reduced risk and effort. Clients should consider this option as a first step in their IT modernization plans.
26 July 2010
IBM's Enterprise Modernization strategy is being defined by the IBM Rational brand. Its focus is on the impact of modernization on applications, people and teams.
24 June 2010
Microsoft's modernization strategy depends heavily on partners to drive legacy application portfolios to the Microsoft application platform.
24 June 2010
This research outlines Oracle's modernization strategy, and identifies its key challenges and opportunities.
8 January 2010
Mainframe migrations can be executed in a number of ways. Which choice is best will depend on a number of factors, which we identify in this research.
8 January 2010
Organizations that have a significant investment in IBM mainframes can undertake modernization efforts while remaining on this platform. IBM has made significant investment and innovation in the platform, and clients have a variety of choices to continue their modernization efforts.
23 July 2010
Application portfolio management (APM) processes fill gaps in a company's knowledge about the costs, risks and business value of deployed applications.
22 July 2010
By 2015, at least 50% of large organizations will be regularly assessing business value relative to application costs and risks as part of the IT budget process. Many organizations' first attempt at application overhaul is a rationalization project.
22 July 2010
Good processes can overcome the technical, business and legal roadblocks to application retirements.
19 July 2010
Top-down analysis techniques enable application portfolio management (APM) processes to focus attention on the areas of greatest opportunity.
13 July 2010
Application overhaul initiatives thrive best when application value is explicit and related to cost and risk.
4 June 2010
Complexity in application portfolios is costly, but why? Here are some root causes and effective places to begin to drive improvements.
15 July 2010
We are exploring the best processes and tools for application portfolio management. Managed application portfolios, analyzed in the context of business and technical initiatives, yield better alignment of existing applications with business needs and more-effective allocation of IT spending.
29 July 2010
Efforts to simplify an application portfolio through consolidation may result in more-complex applications deployed to the users.
23 June 2010
Simplifying applications requires a top-down effort to frontload application architecture, development and sourcing efforts with a formalized, conceptual design process.
23 June 2010
To simplify applications, IT organizations must implement conceptual design processes. To be successful, the applications must be appropriately integrated into existing development methodologies like waterfall and iterative development.
22 June 2010
Application simplification requires a strategy for sourcing, because clients cannot directly control the development strategies that third-party vendors use.
17 June 2010
By 2013, most enterprise IT organizations will be dealing with at least one major project focused primarily on simplifying an overengineered software application. Many organizations will need to simplify overengineered applications during the next two years.
9 June 2010
Creative briefs have been used successfully to frame Web application development efforts, and can be used to create long-lasting narratives for employee-facing applications.
1 June 2010
Application simplification is a required component of any applications overhaul process. Consolidation, modernization and process standardization are important, but simplification is most likely to engage users and make them active participants in applications overhaul.
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