Introduction

Cloud computing is emerging as a major disruptive force for both IT vendors and users. It is still very early days, though, for what many rightfully consider to be the most important trend of decade. The next three years will see cloud computing mature rapidly as vendors and enterprises come to grip with the opportunities and challenges that it represents.

Scope

*Explains why enterprises will investigate Cloud Computing during 2010.

*Explains which technologies will be required to deliver and support the Cloud Computing model.

*Provides advice for both , and vendor clients.

*Covers all industry sectors and ,.

Highlights

Cloud computing has the potential to lower IT costs by eliminating the upfront costs of hardware and software. It is the public cloud provider that invests in the infrastructure required to deliver the cloud services and also reduces ongoing operational costs in areas including development, deployment, integration, maintenance, and upgrades.

Enterprises will approach cloud computing as a way to boost IT effectiveness since it reduces the need to build capacity well in excess of the maximum projected demand. Taking advantage of elastic pools of computing resources through either public or private clouds increases the agility of enterprise IT.

Many enterprises are currently not ready for either private or public clouds or any type of hybrids. In addition, the current confusion as to what exactly cloud computing is, is exacerbated by the fact that many enterprises lack the knowledge and skills to effectively evaluate its potential.

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*Gain valuable insight into the impact of cloud computing on Enterprise IT.

*Understand public and private clouds and the different types of cloud-based service.

*Learn how cloud computing is being applied in different industry sectors.

Table of Contents :

Overview 2
CATALYST 2
SUMMARY 2
OVUM VIEW 3
analysis 4
A MULTI-FACETED PHENOMENON STILL SUBJECT TO DEBATE 4
Public clouds first… 4
…and then private ones 5
ENTERPRISES WILL TURN TO CLOUD COMPUTING TO LOWER IT COSTS 7
Using cheaper public clouds 7
Turning to private cloud can boost data centre economics 7
Hybrid is the way to go but will take time 8
ENTERPRISES WILL APPROACH CLOUD COMPUTING AS A WAY TO BOOST IT EFFECTIVENESS 9
Public clouds deliver efficient services but need to boost trust 9
Private clouds builds on on-going efforts and add new capabilities 10
ENTERPRISES WILL USE CLOUD COMPUTING TO BOOST INNOVATION 11
Public cloud flexibility drives innovation 11
Private cloud flexibility is more important than lower costs 12
ACTIONS 12
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ORGANISATIONS 12
Consider whether you are ready for cloud computing, not just whether cloud computing is ready for you 12
Head up, take stock and create your own recipes 12
Get cloud ready 13
Keep in mind that cloud computing is about the how, not the what 13
Always do your maths 13
Focus on relationship management 14
Do not overestimate or underestimate QoS issues such as security 14
Do not overload your cloud services 14
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PROVIDERS OF TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES 15
Weave cloud computing into your strategy 15
Adopt lock-in risk mitigation strategies 15
Focus on why customers should rather than can 15
Consider business-outcome-based pricing 16
Take a fresh look at SLAs 16
APPENDIX 17
DEFINITIONS 17
Cloud computing 17
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) 17
Multi-tenant architecture 17
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) 17
Private cloud 17
Public clouds 17
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) 18
METHODOLOGY 18
FURTHER READING 18
LEAD AUTHOR 18
CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS 19
OVUM CONSULTING 19
DISCLAIMER 19

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Aarkstore announce a new report  “Evolving Enterprise Applications 2009 – Increasing the Business Value of Investments in ERP and CRM” through its vast collection of market research report.

Enterprise applications like ERP and CRM systems provide the DNA for successful organisations but their scope and impact is so extensive, and the cost and risk of change can be so high, that they are often viewed as static transactional engines that are altered only when absolutely necessary. Although understandable, this approach has negative repercussions for the business and prevents the full value of these expensive, strategic and under-utilised assets from being realised. At a time when budgets are frozen or shrinking it pays to have a range of strategies and programmes that can be put in place to maximise the business value of existing investments.

These should cover optimisation of the existing implementation, and evolving and improving it via intelligent additions. We should also bear in mind that the current tough times will come to an end, at which point systems will have to be fit and healthy in order to cope with the upswing, so paying attention to the basics now will pay extra dividends later.

KEY FINDINGS

• Enterprise applications are an easy target for cost-cutting initiatives but inappropriate cost cutting of the core applications that run the business undermines value and increases risk.

• Breaking down organisational silos, particularly between IT and business units, is fundamental to exploiting the innate value of enterprise systems but requires a collaborative culture and enterprise architecture approach.

• Applications are in a state of change – restructuring around a series of platforms and tasked with delivering process standardisation.

• Application extension is not just about adding new functionality but providing tools for insight, analysis, and collaboration.

• The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model brings its disruptive influence to bear on the integration, ERP, and application development areas.

• Under-utilisation of existing systems is a significant issue – 50% of standard functionality regularly goes unused.

• Standardisation is a major contributor to unlocking value and reducing costs.

• Strategic maintenance management can improve operational costs and release resources for value-generating initiatives.

• The next round of upgrades will be more challenging than normal technical or functional upgrades but is necessary in order to support the quest for business agility.

• Stability and flexibility appear to be mutually exclusive, but architectural change is starting to provide a solution, thereby providing a business case for additional investment.

• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM) are edging systems towards the much sought after alignment between applications and business objectives and application agility.

This Report reveals:

• How to make the most of existing financial and intellectual property investments in enterprise applications.

• What steps organisations can take to control the cost of maintenance and assess its real value to the business.

• The impact of Software-as-a-Service on delivery and payment models, and key technology and integration considerations.

• Where to direct investment in application extensions in order to secure the most effective returns.

• How technology change around SOA and BPM is impacting the way applications are constructed, accessed, and managed.

• The role of portfolio management and application consolidation in managing for business value and cost effectiveness.

• Why increased utilisation of standard components reduces cost and risk to the business.

• Why enterprise application upgrades are still so challenging and what can be done to ease the pain.

Additional Information

CATALYST

Enterprise applications are functionally mature at the core but remain immature in the value generation area. Technology changes are opening up more opportunities for value maximisation at the business level but are also increasing complexity so that, more than ever, enterprise applications need to be viewed and managed from the multiple perspectives of architecture, process ability, and delivery, under the banner of cost and value to the business.

ANALYSIS

Introduction

Enterprise applications – integrated suites of applications used to run a large part of an organisation’s core business – are highly mature in terms of functionality, with some aspects qualifying as commodity operations because there is little differentiation between the various offerings. They are far from being commodity items in their entirety however because of their role in automating, standardising, and executing the critical operations needed to run a business. Investment in enterprise applications is a consistently high priority for organisations but the unfortunate aspects of their cost and complexity make them a prime target for cost cutting during recessionary times.

While constant evolution could be interpreted as a sign of weakness, it is more an indication of their strategic value and a reflection of the cost and intellectual capital tied up in them. Indiscriminate cutting will undermine value and increase risk to the business; strategic investments to improve efficiency or better manage interactions can release the value from existing investments, and generate new opportunities.

Business Issues

Business has a dynamic and momentum that sometimes defies logic but cannot be ignored and IT plays a critical role in enabling organisations to function effectively. While applications contribute through their transaction, data management, and automated process execution abilities, the key to unlocking their value lies in aligning them with business goals and being able to rapidly and cost-effectively change them in line with business change.

While technology plays a vital part in enabling this, an integrated mindset is also an important consideration, whereby applications, processes, infrastructure, management, people, and business objectives are viewed as inter-related components not siloed projects. A collaborative approach supported by formal methodologies and frameworks such as Enterprise Architecture, Business Management Modelling, Value Management, and benchmarking for health and fitness for purpose are routes towards a better understanding of both costs and value-generation opportunities, and towards enabling more proactive use of IT and enterprise applications to improve the business.

With the world economy scaling down, 2009 may not be the time for wholesale new investment, but strategic spending is advisable to maintain the value of existing enterprise application investments, streamline and improve business operations, and enable organisations to take advantage of fresh opportunities. This can be achieved through application extension; not by loading up on transactional-type functions, but by focusing on “intelligent” extensions – those geared towards providing insight and analysis; enabling group, enterprise, and partner-wide collaboration; improving customer interactions; or driving more efficient processes which can directly affect the amount of business that can be done, or the margins achieved.

Small, focused investments that leverage existing implementations can deliver substantial benefits. Improvements in production planning that reduce waste by a few percentage points can deliver significant financial returns for example; abandoned online shopping carts could be indicative of a poor process – reducing the number of clicks needed to complete an online purchase may increase the number of sales and any improvement can be readily measured. At a deeper level, providing analytics as a shared service across the enterprise and feeding insight into operational activities is a prime example of a value-generation strategy.

Every system has a limit in terms of modification and top-down extension, and when the cost and complexity of change starts to hold the business back a more radical approach is needed that may involve an upgrade. Always more difficult than they should be, the next round of upgrades will be even more taxing because they will include an architectural change to a SOA and need to be committed to on a “spend now, benefit later” basis. Once there, organisations are being offered the prize of applications with modularity, application flexibility to support business agility, and better business management plus shorter and easier upgrades, but to achieve these benefits a major upgrade initiative is required. While vendors are providing tools to make upgrading easier, they generally only apply to the modern versions of their applications.

Spending in strategic areas can be offset by savings in others. The cost of maintenance is a drain on budgets but there are strategies for managing costs. While the cost of maintenance fees paid to vendors is rightly an area of concern and there are ways to reduce the cost, internal maintenance costs tend to be higher and provide more scope for reduction from increased use of standard components to application consolidation.

Opting for an alternative application model such as SaaS can be an effective way of managing the cost of applications and improving business operational efficiency. The online delivery and subscription payment aspects are important because they describe a low-cost, rapid-deployment scenario, which can be all important for organisations looking for a rapid return on investment and the ability to alter business operations to enable them to quickly act on a business opportunity. However, the key to uncovering its full value is to understand its capacity for flexibility and how that flexibility complements each organisation’s need for an adaptable, agile, business.

Technology Issues

Change is always a difficult time and the degree of current change at both the application and underlying architecture levels is compounding the issue. All architecture roads seem to lead to SOA: vendors are rearchitecting their applications around SOA, the framework is altering the way applications are constructed, SaaS providers are building to a SOA model, and organisations are under pressure to make the transition. Yet that transition is no minor matter and the implications stretch beyond the technology sphere.

SOA is a response to the lack of agility in previous generations of applications that locked business into a rigid way of working because process knowledge and business rules were hardcoded within the applications. By delivering functionality as a series of services aligned with identifiable business operations and able to be loosely coupled together to create processes and applications, it is changing the way applications are constructed and provides an architectural approach to enabling the application agility needed to adapt to changes in the business environment.

Understanding where SOA fits with existing architectures and implementations, and how it can add value, is one of the major challenges facing organisations. It can be retrofitted into existing environments, playing a role in integration, extending their capability and providing access to new types of technology and functionality that existing systems are unable to support. As such it can extend the life and value of existing systems while providing a bridge to a new generation. However, it is an inherently more complex environment so it demands strict governance. As with anything new, it resolves some existing problems but presents a different set of challenges.

The application environment is also being redefined through the use of BPM, which plays an important part in opening up locked-away functionality and carrying out integration across disparate applications. Another of its value dimensions is its ability to focus on the external, providing an architecture for inter-company operation. BPM can also contribute to Master Data Management (MDM) initiatives, which provide another approach to management and integration across and outside the enterprise and play to the business need for an integrated mindset and architectural base.

The other dominant technology change is around SaaS of course. SaaS has expanded beyond CRM. Platform-as-a-Service has delivered highly accessible development, customisation, and integration capabilities within the context, and with the cost and usability benefits, of a service-based model. SaaS no longer means having to take what you are given.

Different SaaS architecture models have emerged and this impacts issues such as security, performance, and interoperability. The ability to integrate SaaS applications with each other and with on-premise applications has been key in raising the value proposition of the model and making it attractive to larger enterprises as well as small and medium-sized businesses. The SaaS model encourages organisations to subscribe to multiple services from multiple vendors, and even to become a provider of whole or component services. While this can pay dividends in enabling flexibility and business innovation it opens up new areas of risk to the business, both technically and legally, necessitating the need for management policies, strict governance, and stringent security.

Market Issues

The enterprise applications market has passed through its phase of febrile acquisition activity and settled into a consolidation and development mode. That has done nothing to lessen the dynamism within the sector as the vendors work on updating architectures and application structures, and integrating their acquisitions. Although acquisitions will never cease, it looks like most of the major ones have been completed. The next round will revolve around the Web 2.0 vendors and the specialist SaaS providers.

The economic situation has changed the balance of power in the vendor-customer relationship with customers in a stronger position than during the boom years. Vendors’ heavy investments in acquisitions and developments mean they are under pressure to recoup their costs via increased sales, but with budgets being cut or remaining static they are struggling. As a result customers are being offered rather more in the way of carrots than sticks as indicated by vendors’ willingness to offer substantial licence discounts, defer increased maintenance charges, and engage with user groups to start tying maintenance to value and deliverables.

There is also an increased focus on providing highly focused productivity and application modules that can be implemented rapidly for a quick ROI, something that fell by the wayside in recent years as vendors concentrated on architectural developments. Some of the new modules are actually components stripped out of larger existing modules that have been repackaged and tweaked to address a specific operation. While there is an element of buyer beware – check that you don’t already have the function – it is an indication of the potential value that can be delivered through fine-grained modules.

Economics, customer power, new architectural models, and disruptive delivery models, have opened up the market and shown that there are alternatives to the traditional enterprise application format. However, there is a risk of vendor lock-in (in a strategic more than a technical sense), as a result of each of the major providers offering both applications and middleware, and in some cases the data infrastructure and hardware too. Taking advantage of end-to-end stacks can be beneficial for harmonisation across global operations but it has to be a conscious and strategic decision.

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Aarkstore announce a new report  “Application Development and Lifecycle Management: The Impact of Agile Practices on People, Processes, and Tools” through its vast collection of market research report.

The options available for building software applications have never been so wide ranging as they are today. This is largely to do with the impact of the Web, with different solution models available depending on user needs, from infrastructure to end device considerations. The most recent trend of cloud computing is also opening new possibilities that are lowering the cost barrier, increasing access to high performance computing, and also lowering the skill barrier for non-programmer information workers, whether in SMEs or departments in large organisations, to build business applications.

KEY FINDINGS
- ALM systems have improved considerably from the first generation of products; the new generation is Web-based and strong on collaboration.
- Agile methodology adoption has entered mainstream development and is making developers and managers rethink how they carry out application development.
- Agile practices are having a major influence on the ALM solutions market; supporting Agile processes is a hot area.
- ALM system architecture identifies core lifecycle functions, including process support with workflow, integrated data repository, and reporting.
- Business Intelligence (BI) for application development has now become an ALM system fixture, offering advanced analytics applied to project statistics.
- Software estimation remains a niche activity but should, be a core lifecycle activity in ALM.
- Defect and Issue Management is another core activity that cross-cuts the application lifecycle and is supported well by leading ALM systems.
- ALM system users should have read-and-write features for process guides, allowing users to modify content, supporting collaboration and knowledge exchange.
- ALM systems that alter the functionality exposed depending on the process selected represent an advanced, state-of-the-art technology, not yet seen in the market.
- The rise in Software Systems Engineering reflects the increasing use of software

CATALYST
Application development continues to evolve with processes and methodologies receiving significant
attention through Agile practices, while on the tooling side a new generation of Application Lifecycle
Management (ALM) products are appearing with process and workflow support figuring largely.
June 2009

ANALYSIS
Introduction
Software application development is one of those subjects that never disappears but is always evolving. Since the last general survey Report on this subject – Application Lifecycle
Management (ALM), published in September 2005 – there has been a lot of activity in the ALM field. With our colleagues in Datamonitor we published an ALM Decision Matrix in 2007 that looked at the vendor ALM suite market, and we now repeat that exercise in this Report with all the leading vendors participating. (The Datamonitor Decision Matrix also replaces what used to be the Market Lifecycle Ratings in  Technology Evaluation and Comparison Reports).
The areas that are currently receiving the greatest activity in application development are:
- Agile development and Agile project management.
- ALM.
- Testing and test management.
- Enterprise Web 2.0.

The application development subjects that are on the horizon, are:
- Development in the Cloud.
- Parallel programming (especially General Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units – or
GPGPU).
- Extension of ALM to overlap IT governance.
- RESTful Service Oriented Architecture. (REST is Representational State Transfer).

While what and how applications are being developed evolves, developers are still needed to programme the machines and create these applications. It had been considered that advanced modelling such as Model Driven Development (MDD) in the guise of software factories would at some point deliver on the next leap forward, a technological breakthrough such as a higher abstraction compiler that takes models rather than a high-level programming language to churn out the machine code. The Object Management Group’s Model Driven Architecture (MDA) appeared to be moving in that direction. This did not transpire, and is not likely to in the immediate future. These themes are expanded upon below.

Business Issues

Ultimately, software applications are built to satisfy the needs of the business, and the subject of the clash of two different cultures – the IT department and the rest of the business – has been discussed often, possibly to exhaustion. Some intractable problems become ‘solved’ through irrelevance because the ground has moved, and it can be said that whereas in the early days of computing the computer department in a business was a quite distinct function, a place where data was sent to be processed and returned with some useful statistics or reports, today there are businesses whose sole basis for existence relies on the IT function. Examples vary from obvious ones such as online banks and Web 2.0 companies, to less obvious virtual companies that operate solely due to the existence of the Internet and products with embedded software where the software component has grown exponentially. The net result of this shift towards greater reliance on IT is that the business has to take a greater interest in its IT function to succeed in the market, especially if the IT people are not delivering.

A real-world example illustrates how businesses are tackling this problem (names are omitted for confidentiality reasons): an IT company arose from being a small operation to having a billion dollar turnover in a short period. This company used to release its key platform application on an annual basis, but as a result of this rapid growth its current releases were taking 18 months and longer. The CEO gave the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) the highest priority directive to solve the problem. The CTO decided that all the company’s developers would switch to Scrum, the most popular Agile methodology, in big-bang fashion. The switchover was a success and delivery was back to a 12-month cycle. BT is another example where in this instance the CEO directed the company to adopt Agile, and an incremental adoption plan is in progress. Alternately, the concept of reducing waste is a message that many businesses understand and this is central to Lean Development, which takes many ideas from the lean movement and Total Quality Management, and combines them into an Agile methodology. Lean Development is found to be more comprehensible to businesses than some of the more developer-oriented Agile practices.

Businesses also want greater real-time insight into software project progress, and the new generation of BI solutions integrated into ALM suites provide this capability. Rather than reacting post-event, senior managers can act to avert problems escalating into software crisis dimensions. In particular, visibility
into quality control and test performance of the work in progress is necessary. When schedules become pressured, testing is the area that is traditionally cut by Project Managers. Therefore senior business managers must keep track of testing and quality – getting this wrong incurs long-term damage to the organisation in the marketplace. Agile methodologies are liked by business executives because they make
testing an integral part of the development lifecycle, not the last activity before
shipping.

Enterprise Web 2.0 represents a puzzle to many company executives: they see staggeringly successful businesses emerge, based on the Internet and the set of concepts and technologies behind Web 2.0, but do not see how this is relevant for them, or how they can emulate that success. This is likely to change as Web 2.0 culture permeates the workforce, that were raised in the Internet age, and use of the Web grows. Cloud Computing will accelerate that process, as various entrants trial new business models for earning revenue by offering utility-like computing services. Addressing security concerns is paramount though and will act as the brake whenever any mission-critical applications are considered. Expendable, low-risk business activity will find its way to the Cloud today. It will probably take the Internet mark 2 (there are various initiatives for upgrading the Internet, increasing bandwidth and improving security at nodes being prime motivations), for Cloud Computing to become truly ubiquitous.

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Continuous developments in the EPM field have brought enterprise resource management also in the umbrella of EPM focus. Organizations today need to manage their resources effectively and optimize their utilization across various the enterprise projects. For this, the management needs up-to-date information on resource allocation, assignment, availability and utilization.

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