Use PaaS to Decrease Ongoing Application Maintenance Costs
Take advantage of PaaS to offload components of your application development and deployment maintenance.
- The organization currently has many applications that use the same type of back-end and mid-tier components, leading to duplicate service usage.
- With increasing sprawl, the app dev team can no longer sustain the resource overhead of maintaining the existing application portfolio while conducting development.
- Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) vendors sell the benefits of PaaS but you need an ROI-based business case to be built for PaaS recommendation.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- PaaS is not suitable for all projects. Carefully select pilot projects that have the greatest chance of success and determine the right requirements or risk significant cost overruns to fix problems or roll back development.
- Selection of pilot projects can be a significant undertaking.
- PaaS rollout may require peripheral projects to be accelerated.
- PaaS will modify internal roles and processes. Get ready for change management.
Impact and Result
- PaaS can offer an economic outsourced model for common application development components, similar to reusable libraries for non-cloud solutions.
Workshop: Use PaaS to Decrease Ongoing Application Maintenance Costs
Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.
Module 1: Map the Valuable Apps
The Purpose
- Identification of key stakeholders.
- Identifying applications important to the business.
- Discussion around current system architecture.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Common understanding across stakeholders of architecture for applications under PaaS consideration.
Activities
Outputs
Identify key stakeholders.
Identify the appropriate applications to consider for PaaS.
- Shortlist of suitable applications for PaaS.
Module 2: Identify Your PaaS Opportunities
The Purpose
- Use the system architecture to drive out potential PaaS opportunities.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Mapping of duplicate architectural components can help facilitate discussion around consolidation.
Activities
Outputs
Assessment of current architecture for reusable components.
- Mapping of PaaS consolidation opportunities to PaaS services.
Module 3: Implement PaaS
The Purpose
- Select the right PaaS services and run through a ROI analysis to determine suitable pilot projects.
Key Benefits Achieved
- A ROI business case for moving to PaaS.
Activities
Outputs
Map PaaS opportunities to PaaS services.
- ROI analysis for moving to PaaS.
Prepare rollout based on a project dependency timeline.
- Project rollout plan for PaaS. ROI analysis for moving to PaaS.
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Get the help you need in this 1-phase advisory process. You'll receive 4 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
- Call 1: Select the applications
Identify the most valuable applications based on services needs and deployment flexibility.
- Call 2: Document PaaS opportunities
Determine where applications can be optimized according to your system architecture. Keep development and maintenance improvements in mind.
- Call 3: Select the right PaaS services
Determine the fit of all possible PaaS services to enable your opportunities based on ROI, cost, and people, process, and technology impact.
- Call 4: Rollout and monitor PaaS
Inform key decision makers of the PaaS rollout, highlighting any cost deviations, unexpected impacts, and overall rollout success. Establish a monitoring plan and discuss the next steps.
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