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Application modernization – Five driving factors

Enterprise needs keep evolving, making existing applications effectiveness questionable. Aging application portfolio and legacy systems need to be assessed for modernization. Application assessment for modernization will have a two-pronged approach. First, identify the driving factors for application modernization and assess the level of overhauling required for modernization of the application portfolio. Several factors drive application modernization:

Intel SOA Expressway

One fine morning my manager asked me to look at this appliance and understand the benefits it has to offer as there was a customer specific need. To my surprise I was so fascinated by this Appliance from Intel for this much needed appliance which augments the various needs whether it is hosted services or rich internet applications. The best part is that it supports both Windows and Linux

What is it Anyways?

The Latent Business Analyst

Ever wondered how implicitly we tend to become Subject Matter Experts (SME) after working on a software project or a program over a period of time. Once this threshold is crossed, you become a trusted advisor to the customer which you have earned as a result of sheer attention to detail and due diligence by delivering consistently and correctly year over year.

Application Tuning Unleashed for Oracle Databases

It is a well known fact that great object oriented programmers are not great database developers and the opposite holds good with a few exceptions in both the cases. Each of these are experts in their own space and often leave the job of fine tuning applications as a reactive approach after the size of the data grows into hundreds of Terabytes and the same becomes stale over a period of time and users start to complain about serious performance issues.

The Costs and Implications of Application Software Maintenance

Software maintenance is defined as “the process of modifying existing operational software while leaving it's primary functions intact”. It is different from hardware maintenance due to the fact that software does not experience any physical wear and tear, but generally it's usefulness depreciates over time. In almost all cases, software is delivered and implemented with hidden flaws. On average, the cost of application software maintenance is greater than half of the overall systems' life cycle cost.

Application Quality Measurement and the Outsourcing Relationship

I recently came across an interesting webinar presented by our Partner Cast software.  The webinar does a great job of presenting many of the challenges faced in the outsourced vendor buyer -relationship and discusses traditional techniques (SLA's, extreme  process focus) currently used by many parties. This is followed by a deeper dive of the improvements afforded by leveraging Application Quality measurement techniques.

The Emperor's New Clothes

Ever wonder about the risk profile of your IT application portfolio?