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Millions of applications are not used: Application Landscape Report
By siliconindia
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Saturday, 30 April 2011, 00:59 IST
Only 4 percent of all survey respondents say that every IT system that they support can be considered business-critical. Merely 41 percent indicate that half or more of their IT systems are vital to the business, and 17 percent think that only a few applications (10 percent or less) in their entire portfolio can be classified as mission-critical.
In addition, companies have a problem with data retention. IT systems generate great quantities of data, which can grow exponentially ' up to 5 percent per month on a large system.
In order to standardize on a few selected applications and platforms, IT may choose to retire several duplicate systems. Retirement of applications did not make the list of top rationalization strategies, even though nearly a third of the survey respondents agree that between 1 percent and 10 percent of their application portfolio needs to be retired, and another half of surveyed IT executives estimate the number of applications that are candidates for decommissioning to be between 11 percent and 50 percent.
