Enterprise Applications Ecosystem: a Manifesto
Ovum Plc
March 9, 2011 24 Pages - SKU: OV6196621
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Introduction
While the hundreds of thousands of apps for the iPhone and Android smartphones and iPad-style tablet computers are the center of today’s breathless hype, enterprise applications and the surrounding ecosystem are what corporations and public sector organizations run their businesses on.
Features and benefits - A new approach to thinking about enterprise applications that can lead to better future-proofing of the IT strategy and saving money
- See the complex set of interactions that occur at the “forest level of the enterprise applications ecosystem
Highlights
While enterprise applications are mere lines of software code and not living organisms, there is a value to thinking of enterprise applications as part of a community and its environment.
Your key questions answered - What are the distinct elements of the evolving enterprise applications market ?
- Why does evaluating the enterprise applications ecosystem require a different approach?
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- SUMMARY
- Catalyst
- Ovum view
- Key messages
- The enterprise applications market is now a complex ecosystem
- The enterprise applications ecosystem has distinct elements
- Evaluating the enterprise applications ecosystem requires a different approach
- ANALYZING THE FOREST ECOSYSTEM, NOT JUST COUNTING THE LEAVES ON A TREE
- Taking an ecosystem approach
- Evolution of the market perception
- Blind men and the elephant
- The business value for IT taking an ecosystem approach
- INTRODUCING THE ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS ECOSYSTEMS FRAMEWORK
- A high-level context
- Core Applications
- Market Forces Ring - expanding or pressuring the core applications
- Extended Technology
- Extended Service
- Disruptors
- Issues
- Adapt Ring - adapting enterprise applications to meet different situations
- Industries and Public Sector
- Geography
- Style of IT adoption
- OVUM'S RESEARCH AGENDA FOR THE ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS ECOSYSTEM
- Overview
- Core applications
- Enterprise applications ecosystem
- Supporting research projects
- RECOMMENDATIONS
- Recommendations for enterprise and public sector IT
- Ignore “business as usual”
- Audit your strategy, plans, and infrastructure
- Take a zero-based approach to enterprise applications strategy
- Recommendations for vendors
- Evaluate where you stand in respect to other parts of the ecosystem
- Take a zero-based approach to thinking about the implications of the ecosystem
- Alternative views
- Inertia
- Macroeconomic
- Disillusionment
- APPENDIX
- Further reading
- Methodology
- Author
- Ovum Consulting
- Disclaimer
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