Best Practice Report

Strategies To Cut Application Costs And Increase Productivity Using Application Mining Tools

Increase Productivity And Quality While Reducing Exposure To Risk

April 24th, 2009
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Phil Murphy
With contributors:
Mike Gilpin , David D'Silva

Summary

Today's economic climate demands that applications professionals do more with less: more new development, more maintenance, more integration, and more technology change to support wild fluctuations in the pace of business change. A tall order in good economic times, these demands border on impossible as the economy falters and IT budgets tighten. Applications professionals need productivity gains for the plethora of day-to-day activities: scoping the impact of proposed changes quickly, completely, and accurately; ensuring the quality of application changes; proving adherence to functional and compliance requirements; right-sizing testing efforts; and maintaining ongoing stores of application knowledge to enable greater agility. Application mining tools increase productivity across a wide range of these activities, especially against large bases of custom-developed applications.

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