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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.

Use PaaS to Decrease Ongoing Application Maintenance Costs Research & Tools

1. Map the applications suitable for PaaS

Determine a starting point for architecture discussions that will drive reusability.

Storyboard: Use PaaS to Decrease Ongoing Application Maintenance Costs
Platform-as-a-Service Rollout Tool

2. Find where PaaS can help

Gain an understanding of what options are available and select the right ones.

3. Map PaaS services to needs

Analyze which services are most suitable to carry forward.

4. Monitor the rollout

Manage stakeholder expectations and the budget for future phases.

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Authors

Andrew Kum-Seun

Altaz Valani

Carolyn Burns

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