Simple Applications and Workflows
IT departments deal with a wide array of application needs. Core architecture, systems integration, and business process management are central to a company’s competitive differentiation. But what about all the tactical applications that fall below this threshold of criticality?
From vacation request approvals to employee award nominations, when IT builds and subsequently maintains a tactical application, it is a slow and costly endeavor with low ROI.
Anticipating the lengthy IT development processes and associated costs, business units will often resort to using spreadsheets, documents, email, or even multi-tenant hosted software services (SaaS) to store and manage this information. However this ad-hoc approach is not only inefficient for business users, it also results in decentralization of information that is difficult for IT to secure, govern and integrate.
No wonder these small, tactical applications are the bane of many organizations. Business units need them. IT is loathe to take on the expense. Managers are dissatisfied with costs and time delays.
What's a business to do?
