Application Excellence
Analyze, manage and optimise applications
Application Excellence: Metrics helps you determine and increase the business value of your strategic software.
Applications are the strategically most important part of corporate IT - and often a black box. Application Excellence from Metrics brings light into the darkness and shows correlations and solutions. Optimising the application landscape is not one giant project, but an evolution of many small steps.
Costs and benefits of applications
Metrics Data Lake,
Average, 2023
Software accounts for around 47 percent of the IT budget. Nevertheless, a large proportion of IT managers are unable to objectively assess whether the costs, speed, organization and functions of applications are in line with market standards.
Our vision of application excellence encompasses a company's entire software ecosystem - from application development, security and application operation to user experience and user adoption. We support IT managers in designing the application landscape in such a way that it drives the business departments forward effectively and economically.
Client project: "Heraeus - Applications put to test"
Four dimensions of application excellence
Costs of applications
1. How to quantify the costs of dev, ops and maintenance
2. How to manage application costs to stay within budget
3. How to continuously evaluate the cost reduction potential
4. How to allocate software costs fairly and efficiently
Time to market of applications
1. When added business value is created in the development process
2. Why regular user feedback is important right from the start
3. How development and deployment time is continuously optimised
4. How the degree of agility is aligned with business requirements
Functionality of applications
1. How integration with existing systems & data sources works
2. Why functions are aligned with business requirements
3. How they create business value for the company
4. When software supports the achievement of business goals
Organisation of applications
1. How standardization is combined with individuality
2. How operating models and applications are coordinated
3. When application architecture is scalable, flexible & reliable
4. How applications are measured and controlled in companies
Application excellence results from appropriate organisational maturity and a corresponding cost level.
Would you like to find out more about Application Excellence? Feel free to contact me!
