Challenging the IT Status Quo

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Challenging the IT Status

Quo Mike W JonesRegional Sales Executive

OutSystems

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What is Your IT Status Quo?

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What is Your IT Status Quo?

Constantly Fighting a Growing Backlog?

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What is Your IT Status Quo?

Consumed with Legacy Maintenance?

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What is Your IT Status Quo?

Out-sourcing Business Innovation?

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Challenging Your Status Quo

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Two Fundamental Issues . . .

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The Keep The Lights On (KTLO) Dilemma %

of

budget

time

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The Keep The Lights On (KTLO)

DilemmaLong-term TCO leads to zero innovation %

of

budget

time

Zero Innovation

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Constant Pressure to Do

More

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Is There a Solution?

How about a quick fix?

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What is the Real Problem?

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Riddle Me This!

How much did you spend on the last new

application for your business?

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Riddle Me This!

How much will you spend this year to enhance

and maintain that application?

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Go-live Costs vs. Lifetime TCO

Develop &

Integrate : $100,000

Initial Cost

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Go-live Costs vs. Lifetime TCOApplication

Change Is the Real Problem

Source: Gartner, “A Framework for the Lifetime Total Cost of Ownership of an Application”

Enhance with new features / business needs : $ 170

Maintain inc. bug fixing, re-architect & adapt:

$ 110 Operate (help desk, upgrades, updates,

performance tuning, servers, etc.): $ 140

42% of initial cost

Develop &

Integrate : $100,000

Initial Cost

Annual Cost

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The ‘Best Case’ Scenario

Stable business process and an application

built for change

Software Change is the Root Cause

We Need to Deliver A Lot

More Software

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Challenging the IT Status

Quo

2 recommendations

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1. Adopt A Pace-Layered Approach

STANDARD

DIFFERENTIATING

INNOVATING

Manage Applications Based

on Pace of Change

Weekly Change

Monthly Change

Annual Change

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1. Adopt A Pace-Layered ApproachDifferent

Governance Process for Each Layer

Pace of Change

Risk of Change

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Extreme Agile

Waterfall

Iterative

STANDARD

DIFFERENTIATING

INNOVATING

1. Adopt A Pace-Layered Approach

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STANDARD

DIFFERENTIATING

INNOVATING

2. Build For Change

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STANDARD

DIFFERENTIATING

INNOVATING

Rent/Buy &

Parameteri

ze Rent/Buy

1

Buy &

Customiz

e

2

Build

3

Business Process Become

Mission Critical

2. Build For Change

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STANDARD

2. Build For Change

DIFFERENTIATING

INNOVATING

Buy &

Customize

Rent/Buy &

Parameteriz

e

Rent/Buy

Build For Change

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2. Build For Change

• deliver fast

• change faster

• NFRs built in

• scalable

• secure

• easy to

integrate

STANDARD

DIFFERENTIATING

INNOVATING

OutSystems

Platform

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Challenging the IT Status

Quo

the time is now!

Software Change is the Root Cause

We Need to Deliver A Lot

More Software

STANDARD

DIFFERENTIATING

INNOVATING

STANDARD

DIFFERENTIATING

INNOVATING

Build for Change

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Challenge Your IT Status

Quo?

Become a source of innovation!

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Thank You