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Understanding an application''s true age: when did you last look at your systems? (Business Case).

Publication: XML Journal
Publication Date: 01-JUN-02
Format: Online - approximately 1031 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
If you've been in the enterprise solutions industry for any length of time, you're doubtless familiar with the principle that every packaged application needs to go through a particular process of analysis, selection, and deployment. These are costly endeavors that require many internal and external resources and many months of work.

You're also familiar with the belief that companies desperately seek to enhance or customize these solutions, once installed, to fit their growing needs rather than throw them away and start again. Sometimes, however, companies have iv face the difficult task of admitting that they've outgrown an earlier selection and need to move toward a new solution quickly or face the problems associated with undersized and poorly fitting existing applications. At times like this, what's needed is a new type of analysis that can determine the true age of an application based on the needs of the company, not the length of time...

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