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Applications and underlying business processes are changing at unprecedented speed. To keep up with the rate of change, organizations need to develop a layered application strategy that allows them to establish management and governance capabilities that can evolve rapidly.
Dennis Gaughan, MVP Research, and Val Sribar, GVP of Research, discuss the need to segment your application portfolio based upon business value and the rate of change of those applications.
8 December 2010
Pace layering is a new methodology for categorizing applications and developing a differentiated management and governance process that reflects how the applications are used and their rate of change.
28 March 2011
Gartner's Pace-Layered Application Strategy can help organizations develop a more-effective application strategy. The first step is to identify the individual applications, and then assign them to the appropriate layer based on their characteristics.
23 December 2011
To optimize the enterprise's ability to respond quickly to different environmental situations, organizations can layer their structures and processes so they respond at a pace appropriate to the situation, while balancing agility and flexibility with operational efficiency.
4 August 2011
Gartner's Pace-Layered Application Strategy helps companies segment their IT efforts to ensure that the demands from the business for differentiation and innovation are met. However, the system of record is the foundation that these higher-level systems rely on.
4 November 2011
Because they're delivered and refined quickly, systems of innovation enable enterprises to address urgent business issues. Use Gartner's Pace-Layered Application Strategy to build a quick-response capability in the IT organization, and to determine when it should be deployed.
15 April 2011
Gartner's Pace-Layered Application Strategy allows different rates of change, depending on the type of application, providing slow change and high control for some, while a more agile and experimental approach for others. To get the whole benefit, you need to differentiate governance and change processes by layer.
21 September 2011
The components of a real-time, operational intelligence system must be grouped into layers that are designed, developed and governed in different ways. IT architects and business leaders should make some of the layers flexible, but others must be systematic and disciplined.
21 July 2011
Use Gartner's Pace-Layered Application Strategy to continually assess your organization's e-commerce capabilities, investments and strategies. Because the model is flexible, it is particularly adaptable to changes in the e-commerce market and the technological advances that drive user expectations.
24 June 2011
Gartner's Pace-Layered Application Strategy can help finance organizations develop an effective, flexible and innovative business strategy. Use this model to deconstruct your portfolio of financial management applications and develop a long-term, dynamic technology plan that fully leverages your IT investments.
21 July 2011
Newer delivery models are making application strategy increasingly complicated for HR and human capital management organizations. Gartner's Pace-Layered Application Strategy provides a framework to organize implementation plans as these strategies evolve, while ensuring the agility of the HR/HCM organization.
14 July 2011
A number of marketing applications support integrated marketing. By applying a Pace-Layered Application Strategy to marketing technology investments, companies can demystify the selection, implementation and re-evaluation of marketing applications.
14 July 2011
Gartner's Pace-Layered Application Strategy helps order management and sales organizations develop a customer-focused, flexible innovative business strategy. This model enables order management architectures to respond better to customer and market changes, and to leverage existing order management investments.
8 June 2011
Gartner's Pace-Layered Application Strategy helps customer service companies create effective, flexible, innovative cross-channel strategies. Use the model to organize your applications and to develop a long-term, dynamic plan to leverage IT investments and incorporate CRM social media and mobility trends.
18 July 2011
Gartner's Pace-Layered Application Strategy helps sales organizations develop effective, flexible and innovative sales automation strategies. Use it to deconstruct applications in your sales application portfolio and develop a long-term, dynamic sales technology plan that leverages IT investments.
22 July 2011
Gartner's Pace-Layered Application Strategy can help supply chain organizations develop an effective, flexible and innovative business strategy. Use this model to deconstruct the body of applications in your infrastructure and to develop a long-term, dynamic technology plan that fully leverages IT investments.
14 July 2011
Proven BPMS and mobile technologies allow agile new layers to be built to front end the classic ERP systems of record at SAP customers. This illustrates the power of the Pace-Layered Application Strategy, especially when combined with techniques for measuring actual realized business benefits.
15 April 2011
A pace-layered application strategy is an approach for developing a differentiated management and governance process that reflects how applications are used and their rate of change. Managing the interdependencies of process and data across application layers requires critical connective technology.
21 June 2011
Service-oriented architecture is required to manage applications according to a pace-layered strategy.
17 November 2011
Service-oriented architecture can deliver benefits like agility. This agility is the result of separating concerns. Incremental improvements in agility can be gained through using pace-layering concepts to organize the service portfolio.
15 April 2011
Gartner's Pace-Layered Application Strategy allows different rates of change, depending on the type of application, providing slow change and high control for some, while a more agile and experimental approach for others. To get the whole benefit, you need to differentiate governance and change processes by layer.
5 July 2011
Gartner's Pace-Layered Application Strategy can help organizations run an effective, flexible and innovative procurement operation. Use this model to deconstruct the body of applications in your portfolio, and to develop a long-term, dynamic technology plan that fully leverages your IT investments.
28 November 2011
IT professionals are responsible for understanding the rate of change dynamics within the enterprise and how that affects system design. They will plan and create connective tissue that allows movement of functions and applications across layers and effective decoupling between layers. The bottom line: Good architecture enables various rates of change.
7 November 2011
Because the impact of consumerization is unevenly spread across an organization's applications, it is useful to segment an enterprise's portfolio. Use Gartner's Pace Layer Model to group applications into systems of record, systems of differentiation and systems of innovation.
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