IT APPLES & IT ORANGES AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADER CONUNDRUM

Every day CIOs are asked to choose between

things that are seemingly incomparable.

Yet they still must choose between IT Apples and Oranges.

An Apple lover thinks their fruit is better because…

“They come in red, green, and yellow.”

“They keep the doctor away.”

“They are crisp and sweet.”

“They make a great pie.”

“And they are affordable!”

While the Orange lover thinks their fruit is better because…

“They are bright orange.”

“They are high in Vitamin C.”

“They are sweet and juicy.”

“They make a great jam.”

“And they are affordable!”

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“Development said the latest release is all green.”

“The system integrator said the upgrade is easy as pie.”

“We can’t afford not to move this system to the cloud.”

And every day CIOs make decisions based

on subjective & incomplete information.

“We need to sunset this system and move to the other one.”

“If you give me this one little feature I can close my deal.”

“The new ERP version has some sweet features we’ve got to have.”

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So how do you make the best choice?

To make objective decisions you need a standard set of data and benchmarks to balance against all the opinions.

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Facts and perspective enable objective visibility needed to make effective decisions.

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The food nutrition label

provides facts and perspective.

APPLE FACTS

Color Red, green, yellow

Skin Edible

Health No doctors

Taste Sweet and crisp

How to eat In a pie

Serving size 100 grams

Calories 52

Carbohydrates 13.81 grams

Fat 0.17 grams

Protein 0.26 grams

Cost $2.11/lb

ORANGE FACTS

Color Orange

Skin Not edible

Health High Vitamin C

Taste Sweet and juicy

How to eat As a jelly

Serving size 100 grams

Calories 47

Carbohydrates 11.75 grams

Fat 0.12 grams

Protein 0.94 grams

Cost $1.17/lb

A set of data that provides standard assessment of size, definitions of good stuff and bad stuff, normalized costs, and industry benchmarks.

What if there were a nutrition label for applications?

How much more confident would you be in your decisions when armed with standardized, objective visibility into your critical systems?

Objective visibility into your critical systems is possible!

BILLING NUTRITION FACTS

TECHNICAL

Production Risk Medium

Adaptability Risk Medium

Complexity Low

Size 2.1 MLOC

System Age 13 years

Ingredients: JSP, EJB, PL/SQL, COBOL

VALUE

Criticality High

Number of End Users +5,000

COST

Number of Developers 18

Annual Maintenance Effort 8 FTEs

E-PAYMENT NUTRITION FACTS

TECHNICAL

Production Risk High

Adaptability Risk Medium

Complexity High

Size 1.2 MLOC

System Age 8 years

Ingredients: PHP, Java, T-SQL, VB.NET

VALUE

Criticality High

Number of End Users +10,000

COST

Number of Developers 25

Annual Maintenance Effort 5 FTEs

Application nutrition label powered by CAST HIGHLIGHT.

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Insight needed to make objective decisions

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Benchmark your applications against other organizations

Compare systems or drill down into individual system details

View applications against standard size, complexity and health metrics

Systems rated objectively based on source code analysis

When you can’t tell apples from oranges

you usually end up with a bunch of lemons.

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