Hexaware’s APA will provide CIOs with a ROADMAP that can help them reduce application maintenance burdens and rationalize their application portfolios. Following are some of the drivers of the high application maintenance costs associated with the managing a complex Application landscape..
- Mergers & Acquisitions , specific systems for specific line / departmental functions leads to a situation whereby any application landscape becomes a complex web of home grown bespoke systems & packages (Mainframes, Client Server as well as web based applications)
- Data & functionality replicated in heterogenous applications
- Applications at different levels of Technology adequacy
- Complex & often proprietary EAI solutions to ‘connect up’ these disparate systems
- In a recent survey by Foresters 80% of IT budget are taken away by maintaining existing applications leaving a paltry 20% for newer initiatives.
- Paucity of Legacy skills like IMS, PLI, Assembler
- Aging of Baby boomers (Cobol programmers)
- Dependence on a few key resources including contractors
- Poor compliance to SLAs, quality parameters
- Waning application knowledge
For the all the reasons cited above, IT is not perceived as an ‘enabler’ of business but more as a bottleneck
APA recommendations
- Recommend for each application
- Retain
- Retire
- Modernize
- Replace with a package solution
- Which modernization approach to pursue (Web Enable, Integrate Legacy with New Technology, Re Host or Rip & Rewrite)
- Provide a IT Road Map
- To achieve rationalisation & modernisation of application landscape
- Position applications for the ‘Future’ agile Service oriented Architecture
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