CIOs Overwhelmed With Obsolete Apps
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Subtraction by Addition
48% of CIOs and other tech leaders say their company has more applications than it needs, up from just 34% in 2011. -
A Current Consideration
76% say that app modernization is important to their organization's business objectives. -
Cleaning House
About seven of 10 respondents believe that up to one-fifth of their current apps share similar functionality and should be consolidated. -
Irrelevant Apps
Only 37% say that a majority of their apps are critical to their business. -
Flying Blind
58% say their organizations do not have a framework and methodology to help the application portfolio meet business objectives, and 46% of those CIOs and tech leaders say such a framework is needed. -
Top Strategies Used for Application Portfolio Modernization
Replacement: 36%, Enhancement: 36%, Consolidation: 28% -
Budget Forecast
61% say total IT spending within business will increase over the next five years. Just 11% say it will decrease. -
IT's Top Strategic Goals
Increasing efficiencies through tech systems: 55%, Boosting productivity: 47%, Cutting overall business costs: 36%, Improving quality of apps: 27%, Enabling innovation through apps: 26% -
Top Disruptive Technologies Being Deployed
Cloud computing: 56%, Mobility: 54%, Social: 41%, Big data: 34% -
Top Operational Challenges for CIOs
Data security: 61%, Data quality: 43%, Complexity of IT landscape: 40%, Obsolete, outdated tech: 34%, Governance and service integration: 33%
CIOs and other senior tech executives say IT is supporting far too many apps that are no longer relevant to business support, according to a recent survey from Capgemini. Most agree that app-modernization initiatives would help address the issue, but they also say that they don't have a formal strategy to align app deployment with business objectives. This could hurt performance in the long run should the problem linger, creating issues which go far beyond those that are a relatively minor irritation for IT. "Ultimately, it's not a problem that should keep the wider business up at night," says Ron Tolido, senior vice president of applications services for Capgemini. "But in a world where all facets of an organization are starting to embrace digital transformation—and are dependent on the quick deployment of mobile, social, big data and cloud solutions for competitive advantage—a well-rationalized applications landscape suddenly becomes a much bigger, strategic imperative for the whole company." The survey also sheds light upon broader tech topics, such as IT budgets, CIO challenges and disruptive technologies of interest. More than 1,115 global CIOs and top-level IT decision-makers participated in the research. For more about the survey, click here.