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Cloud Readiness as an Enabler for Application Rationalization: A Survey in the Netherlands

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Global Sourcing of Digital Services: Micro and Macro Perspectives (Global Sourcing 2017)

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For over a decade both cloud computing and application rationalization are IT-strategy priorities in most organizations. Cloud computing has grown in the last decade and will continue to grow steadily. Most organizations struggle with reducing the number of applications. There remains a strong resistance from the business, to consolidate and standardize the legacy application platforms. Potentially migrating legacy applications to Software-as-a-Service applications resolves the business migration concerns. As the Software-as-a-Service functionality is a ready to use functionality which can be assessed prior to phasing out legacy applications. This is a distinct difference from a scenario where legacy applications will be replaced by to-be-(custom)-build applications. Also the implementation roadmap of Software-as-a-Services applications is much shorter and most of the Software-as-a-Services applications have data migration tools to import the data from the legacy applications into the new environment. A survey of 124 organizations indicated weak negative linear relationship between the estimated percentage Software as a Service applications and the envisioned number of applications for organizations with +500 applications for the period 2017–2022 (three two year intervals).

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Beulen, E. (2017). Cloud Readiness as an Enabler for Application Rationalization: A Survey in the Netherlands. In: Oshri, I., Kotlarsky, J., Willcocks, L. (eds) Global Sourcing of Digital Services: Micro and Macro Perspectives. Global Sourcing 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 306. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70305-3_7

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