Put The Customer At The Center Of Your Business Applications Portfolio

Mature enterprise applications portfolios are well adapted to vertically integrated enterprises with highly trained dedicated users. But the age of the customer means that enterprises need to collaborate more effectively with customers, suppliers, employees, and partners accustomed to consumer applications that are "Apple easy" and "Google fast." If your organization increasingly relies upon services, intellectual property, content delivery, or consumer interaction, you should retool your business applications portfolio from an internal operational focus to one that is more externally focused on customers and responsive to new business paradigms. This report will help application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals assess the readiness of their applications portfolio from a business technology (BT) perspective, and evolve an applications portfolio that delivers compelling and differentiating customer experiences to accelerate growth and increase shareholder value. This is an update of a previously published report; Forrester reviews and updates it periodically for continued relevance and accuracy; we revised this edition to factor in new ideas and data.