Modern IT Architecture Survey 2016

Modern IT Architecture Survey 2016Online survey among 85 C-level IT professionals

in cooperation with our lead business partner leanIX

Enterprise & IT Architecture Management

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Table of contentsOverview of the sample

• Profile of the participants 4

Results of the study • Impact of digital transformation on the IT industry 6• Feedback collection from the business 7• Applications offered inside or outside the company 8• Updates of provided IT solutions 9• Update cycles 10• New technologies & strategies 11• Current operated systems 12• Technological trends & technology risk 13• Enterprise architecture tools 14

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Overview of the sample

Profile of the participants

4

Targetcompanies

Multi-corporateenterprises,mid-sizedbusinesses,hiddenchampions,andpublicadministration

Target group CIOs,Heads ofIT,andseniorITprofessionals,from theUK,Belgium,TheNetherlands,andNordics

Method Onlinequestionnairedistributed viae-mail

Period February8- 22, 2016

Participants 85decisionmakersfromtheareasITarchitecture,ITinfrastructure,ITSecurity&EnterpriseMobility

Manager/SeniorManager/ProjectLeader;33%

Director/Headof/Leader;33%

BoardMember/Vice

President/C-level;26%

Other;8%

Jobleveloftheparticipants

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25%

Chemicals,Materials&Food

Energy&PowerSystems

Professional&ConsultingServices

ConsumerProducts&Retail

Healthcare&LifeSciences

Other

Automotive&Transportation

Finance,Banking&Insurance

Information&CommunicationTechnologies

Industryoftheparticipants

0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

<1,000 1,000-5,000

5,001-10,000

10,001-50,000

50,001-100,000

>100,000

Approximatenumbersofemployees

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Results of the study

Impact of digital transformation on the IT strategy

6

How much is your IT impacted by digital transformation?

43%

27%

25%

5%

Alot

Quiteabit

Totally

Notmuch



7

Feedback collection from the business

We have heterogeneous teams of Business and IT in place to allow frictionless collaboration

We develop a deep understanding of the business requirements in IT

We use collaboration tools to encourage direct information exchange

We set up joint KPIs that can be understood both by Business and by IT

Other

40%

22%

20%

17%

1%

How do you collect feedback from the business that your services and solutions actually work?



To what extent is IT in charge of the applications offered inside or outside the company?

Applications offered inside or outside the company

8

55% 35%

10%

50-99% 100% lessthan50%



Updates of provided IT solutions

9

What is the fastest release or update cycle of your provided IT solutions you have to support?

To what extent is continuous deployment used to support the update cycles?

Several times per day

Once a month

Once a week

Once a day

Once a year

6%

49%

26%

10%

9%

38% Continuous integration is in place, but deployment has to be conducted manually

29% First steps in the direction of continuous deployment have to be taken

11% Continuous deployment and integration has no priority for us

22% A complete deployment pipeline (e.g. with blue/green deployment) has been established



Update cycles

10

How do you ensure high quality for the end-users while maintaining fast update cycles? *

Peerreviews57% Automaticunit

andintegrationtests44%

Automaticperformance

tests36%

AutomaticUItests32%Other

6%

Intuitive user-interface

Manually

Webinars

44%

40%

35%

Videos 26%

Classroom training 46%

Other 4%

How do you ensure training for the end-users while maintaining fast update cycles? *

*Multiplechoicepossible



New technologies & strategies

11

Technology is not well

developed

22%

How do you screen the market for new technologies and application strategies? *

60% We actively engage with industry peers to gather new ideas for applying emerging technologies

59% We actively engage with external sources (e.g. vendors, consultants) to gather new ideas for applying emerging technologies

11% Other

13% We don’t screen the market actively




Current operated systems

12


How do you monitor the performance (availability, response time) of your operated systems?

4% Continuous deployment and integration has no priority for us

25% A complete deployment pipeline (e.g. with blue/green deployment) has been established

36% IT Operations are monitoring the infrastructure without considering the business impact

35% Business, Development & IT Operations have joint KPIs to monitor the systems from IT and Business side

What architecture patterns and technologies shape your current architecture? *

22% OAuth

66% Central user authorization for all applications

54% REST APIs

27% Microservices

13% Webhooks

10% Docker

4% Other



Technological trends & technology risk

13

What is the most important technological trend that shapes your IT operations?

Continuous integration

Application performance management

Containerization (e.g. Docker)

30%

27%

4%

Videos

Continuous deployment 36%

3%

How do you handle technology risk, e.g. end-of-life of third party software? *

Wehandletheavailablelifecycledataourselves

67%

Weuselifecyclemarketdata,

e.g.Technopedia

36%

Don’tknow9%

Werelyonourvendors

40%




Enterprise Architecture tools

14

If there was an out-of-the-box Enterprise Architecture tool available which gets you up and running within a week would you consider

this a proper solution?


44%

29%

27% Yes

Don'tknow

No

On-premise

Does not matter

33%

26%

SaaS in the Cloud 41%

If you were to choose such a tool what would be your preferred operating model?

What architecture patterns and technologies shape your current architecture? *

Performance78%

Cost66%

Interfaces34%

Risk52%

Availability65%

Incidents44%

UserActivity44%

Transactions34%

Supporttickets28%Bugs

26%

LinesofCodes7%Other

2%



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15

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