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Longtail Apps have always been an area of concern for IT managers, bleeding money, time and effort! Why not do something about it? What are the key challenges preventing Long tail Apps Management?
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…Long tail apps
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The curious case of…
Popularity
No. of applications
ERP
SCM
CRM
Core business
apps are ITFavorites!
Core Biz Apps, on central infrastructure
Then, there are the
supporting apps
HRMS
ESS
Audits
Popularity
No. of applications
Supporting Apps/Systems, Somewhat peripheral &
distributed
Supporting & Situational Apps
Scattered and distributed In hundreds & thousands
…and more! supporting
& situational.
Popularity
No. of applications
• Visitor
Management
• Local Asset
Requests
• Physical Security
These Peripheral, Scattered &
distributed Apps have always been area of concern for
IT Managers !
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These Peripheral, Scattered &
distributed Apps have always been area of concern for
IT Managers !
WHY?
These Apps start in pockets and grow all across
the organization over time within
their own pockets
Built by end-users or sub-organizations,
using whatever quick tools are
available at disposal
MS – Access, MS - Excel
Lotus Notes
Oracle Forms
Visual Basic
They are often used to keep the business going, to keep up with KTLO
routine
They are often used to keep the business going, to keep up with KTLO
routine
Keep The Lights On
But they are locally built, hundreds of them, many of them for the same purpose
In all the unwanted places
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$$$
Growing in uncontrollable
manner, bleeding
money, time & effort
…while all
central IT efforts
are focused on core
systems.
Long Tail Apps are thus born !!
Pop
ula
rity
/ U
sag
e
# of Applications
Supporting Apps
• Mission critical• Tracked by CIOs• Enterprise wide usage
Situational Apps
Long tail Apps
• Non-Mission critical, but important• 200+ Small / medium apps• Approx. 10 to 50 users per app
• Non-mission critical, less important • Developed by power end users• Short lifetime – weeks or months
These Apps continue to
use outdated
technology…!
They use multiple
and mutually
inconsistent
approaches for the
same problem
They are
difficult to
monitor
They are heterogeneous
They are scattered
They end up on non-uniform platforms or architecture
And there are simply too many of them!!!
We see the problem!
Why not do something
About it??!!
We see the problem!
Cost Per application has been too high for
centralization
Head Body Long tailNo. of apps
Popularity
Why not do something
About it??!!Costs of providing the
traditional central infrastructure for these
applications has been too high, and there are too many of them making it difficult to
do that.
1.
It doesn’t seem worth all the effort!
Why not do something
About it??!!The scattered and
heterogeneity of long tail apps doesn’t seem all worth the effort in
absence of a pragmatic approach.
2.
Central IT Infrastructure notconducive for “continuous
innovation”
Why not do something
About it??!!Inherent Business
Innovation characteristics are hampered by the
difficulty of development & accessibility problems of
traditional IT infrastructure
3.
We didn’t have an alternative cost effective platform
Why not do something
About it??!!
?
The available set of target platform options do not provide the cost-effective migration path
and sustenance.
4.
We had to live with
these problems
!Costs Per application too high for centralization
It doesn’t seem worth all the effort!
Central Infrastructure not too conducive for continuous innovation
We don’t have an alternative cost effective platform
We had to live with
these problems
! Until
We had to live with
these problems
! !Cloud
happened!!!
We had to live with
these problems
!…enables long tail Apps Management
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PaaS
!!!!
We had to live with
these problems
!…enables long tail Apps Management
www.orangescape.comwww.twitter.com/orangescapewww.slideshare.net/orangescapeVisual
PaaS
!!!!
