Millions of applications are not used: Application Landscape Report
By siliconindia   |   Saturday, 30 April 2011, 01:05 IST
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Today's CIOs are looking to create better alignment between application development and maintenance activities. Only 13 percent of all survey respondents indicate that there is close synergy between their application development and maintenance teams, while nearly half (48 percent) say that the teams that build applications and the ones who keep them running are in synch 50 percent of the time or less.
Most new application development projects are initiated by the business. Simply knowing how many production systems exist in a company's application portfolio is not enough. Before making any changes, IT managers need to use analysis and metrics to understand the inter-relationships between applications and their dependencies. For decades, the business and IT department have developed solutions without regard for what will happen when these applications reach the end of their useful life. Engineers built applications for specific business problems, patched broken functionality, periodically upgraded core systems, and managed the multitude of redundant applications and large amounts of data that came with each merger or acquisition.

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