This white paper leverages IDC primary research and buyer-focused research to derive an understanding of the customer perception of the business benefits of enterprise application platform adoption and modernization (upgrading to a new version of an existing platform). Three use cases are summarized to put value drivers in context and to identify challenges and best
Enterprises are attracted to gaining the same type of development capability being enjoyed by born-on-the-Web companies. Platform as a service (PaaS) promises to deliver similar benefits to enterprises. The dynamics of the PaaS market indicate that hybrid models provide the most flexibility where the private and public PaaS components are the same or have been
As organizations continue to add to their business application bases and deploy more applications in the cloud and on mobile devices, it will become even more important that they are able to achieve interoperability as efficiently as possible between distributed applications. Application interoperability is executed using integration middleware. For this white paper, IDC interviewed six
In this report, instead of exploring only single products, we researched the functionality and interoperability of all relevant products from each vendor to understand their fit for hybrid scenarios between the cloud and on-premises as well as across the different traditional on-premises integration capabilities. This report details our findings about how well each vendor fulfills
Over the last two decades, IT organizations have faced an uphill battle against complexity. As business demands have multiplied, scores of technologies have been implemented in an attempt to respond. By and large, this steady organic growth has resulted in data centers that are costly and complex, with over-provisioned physical configurations and siloed management. Virtualization
Today, IT is relied upon to support a broad spectrum of users and business services in an enterprise. As these organizations look to fulfill their charter, the IT service management (ITSM) solution in place can either be an invaluable ally or a persistent liability. This guide examines the unprecedented demands IT organizations must contend with
Service management platforms have a vital role to play, but in most organizations, they’re not living up to expectations delivering far too much complexity and cost, and far too little business value and time savings. This proves true even in organizations that have migrated to new solutions in recent years. This paper outlines why legacy
Today’s challenging and hyper-competitive business environment offers CIOs a unique opportunity to assume an expanded role as a strategic technology expert collaborating with the business toward greater success, more revenue and happier customers. It’s in IT’s hands at the moment, but the window of opportunity is closing as lines of business get tech-savvy, spending more
In areas such as sales force automation and customer relationship management, cloud-based computing services have become the norm—and substantially improved the economics, capabilities, and efficiencies customers have realized. Today, organizations can enjoy similarly substantial benefits by migrating their IT service management functions to a Software-as-a-Service model. This paper shows how CA Cloud Service Management enables
Technology-obsessed consumers are wreaking havoc on retail, placing slow-moving businesses at risk of not just falling behind, but falling off the radar. The shakeout began with two recent events: a surge in store closings and a list of big losers from the holiday season. This on-demand webinar, moderated by RIS News Editor-in-Chief Joe Skorupa, features