Long tail apps ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? The curious case of Popularity No. of applications ERP SCM CRM Core business apps are IT Favorites! Core Biz Apps, on central infrastructure Then, there are the supporting apps HRMS ESS Audits Popularity No. of applications Supporting Apps/Systems, Somewhat peripheral & distributed Supporting & Situational Apps Scattered and distributed In hundreds & thousands and more! supporting & situational. Popularity No. of applications Visitor Management Local Asset Requests Physical Security These Peripheral, Scattered & distributed Apps have always been area of concern for IT Managers ! ! These Peripheral, Scattered & distributed Apps have always been area of concern for IT Managers ! WHY? These Apps start in pockets and grow all across the organization over time within their own pockets Built by end-users or sub- organizations, using whatever quick tools are available at disposal MS Access, MS - Excel Lotus Notes Oracle Forms Visual Basic They are often used to keep the business going, to keep up with KTLO routine They are often used to keep the business going, to keep up with KTLO routine Keep The Lights On But they are locally built, hundreds of them, many of them for the same purpose In all the unwanted places ? ? ? ? $ $ $ Growing in uncontrollable manner, bleeding money, time & effort while all central IT efforts are focused on core systems. Long Tail Apps are thus born ! ! Popularity / Usage # of Applications Popularity / Usage Core Apps Supporting Apps Mission critical Tracked by CIOs Enterprise wide usage # of Applications Situational Apps Long tail Apps Non-Mission critical, but important 200+ Small / medium apps Approx. 10 to 50 users per app Non-mission critical, less important Developed by power end users Short lifetime weeks or months Supporting Apps Mission critical Tracked by CIOs Enterprise wide usage Situational Apps Long tail Apps Non-Mission critical, but important 200+ Small / medium apps Approx. 10 to 50 users per app Non-mission critical, less important Developed by power end users Short lifetime weeks or months Popularity / Usage # of Applications Supporting Apps Mission critical Tracked by CIOs Enterprise wide usage Situational Apps Long tail Apps Non-Mission critical, but important 200+ Small / medium apps Approx. 10 to 50 users per app Non-mission critical, less important Developed by power end users Short lifetime weeks or months These Apps continue to use outdated technology! They use multiple and mutually inconsistent approaches for the same problem They are difficult to monitor They are heterogeneous They are scattered They end up on non-uniform platforms or architecture And there are simply too many of them! We see the problem! Why not do something About it?! We see the problem! Cost Per application has been too high for centralization Head BodyLong tail No. of apps Popularity Why not do something About it?! Costs of providing the traditional central infrastructure for these applications has been too high, and there are too many of them making it difficult to do that. 1.1. It doesnt seem worth all the effort! Why not do something About it?! The scattered and heterogeneity of long tail apps doesnt seem all worth the effort in absence of a pragmatic approach. 2 2. . Central IT Infrastructure not conducive for “continuous innovation” Why not do something About it?! Inherent Business Innovation characteristics are hampered by the difficulty of development & accessibility problems of traditional IT infrastructure 3.3. We didnt have an alternative cost effective platform Why not do something About it?! ? The available set of target platform options do not provide the cost- effective migration path and sustenance. 4.4. We had to live with these problems ! Costs Per application too high for centralization It doesnt seem worth all the effort! Central Infrastructure not too conducive for continuous innovation We dont have an alternative cost effective platform We had to live with these problems ! Until We had to live with these problems ! ! Cloud happened! We had to live with these problems ! enables long tail Apps Management Visual PaaS ! We had to live with these problems ! enables long tail Apps Management Visual PaaS !