Basic The Basic application platform is characterized by static, disconnected applications and platforms which hinder the rapid development and interoperability of business-critical applications. Businesses at the basic stage will experience such shortcomings as:
- A general lack of process and rigor in how these applications are developed.
- Ill-defined business processes.
- Insufficient knowledge of the overall health of applications and services due to a lack of tools and resources.
- Lack of a vehicle for collaboration and exchange across development teams or with business users.
- An IT environment that is hard to manage and optimize, resulting in higher costs, application backlogs, and lower IT productivity.
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| Standardized The organization with a Standardized application platform has begun to adopt XML and other industry standards more broadly across departments and with trusted trading partners. Businesses at the Standardized stage will be able to:
- Introduce a more sophisticated development and data infrastructure which can begin to deliver business intelligence reports and business analytics.
- Automate some business processes and departmental services.
- Regard their IT departments less as a cost center than a business enabler that can help them build more adaptive applications quickly.
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Advanced The Advanced infrastructure is one in which IT can truly become a business enabler and partner. The infrastructure and applications are more easily managed, optimized, and delivered throughout the IT lifecycle. Businesses with this kind of infrastructure will be able to:
- Improve visibility of core business processes.
- Gain a clearer insight into performance.
- Use IT to quickly build applications that take advantage of new business opportunities or cope with competitive threats.
- Standardize on a flexible and robust application platform for their most critical applications and business processes
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| Dynamic Customers with a Dynamic infrastructure are fully aware of the strategic value it provides in helping them run their businesses efficiently so they stay ahead of competitors. They benefit from being able to:
- Seamlessly integrate both users and data and customers and partners.
- Achieve collaboration between business and IT.
- Automate processes, often through integrate dtechnologies, helping to align IT with business needs.
- Control costs, while knowing that additional investments in technology will yield specific, rapid, measurable business benefits.
- Fluently use service-oriented architecture to deliver adaptive and cost-effective applications and application development.
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The power of an integrated application platform and infrastructure
