Application Delivery

Shrink Enterprise Application Projects By 50%

Applications support business process, and for digital business, applications are the business process. Application delivery organizations must support the business through timely and quality app releases.

Of course, the applications that enable business process also require data: customer data, purchase history data, pricing data, inventory data, transaction data, etc. The information that powers applications lives in enterprise databases, and the cost and overhead of maintaining those databases can significantly impact application delivery. In fact, application development is often bogged down by non-development processes, including database provisioning processes.

Large IT organizations can often take days or weeks to provision a new, usable database copy for an app development team. After the developer requests the database, as many as four different teams – storage, DBA, server, and network administration – may be involved to complete the request. If the app requires updated data for testing, delivery is delayed further.

By shortening the time required to provision databases and enabling developer self-service, Delphix can dramatically reduce application delivery time. In one real world sales application, Delphix shortened an application delivery project by 50%, from 12 months to only 6 months.

Application development and delivery teams should consider Delphix to cut the time, cost, and effort required to deploy new business applications that run on databases.

 Learn More:

IDG Research CIO Application Survey IDG Research, in conjunction with CIO Magazine, recently conducted research with over 100 F1000 CIOs to better understand their plans for application projects in 2013. The average IT budget among respondents was $423 Million per year, with $173 Million (41%) allocated for enterprise application projects. Respondents indicated that 60% of those projects are already over budget or late. Get the survey results here.

 

Enterprise Strategy Group Whitepaper on ERP Upgrades ESG Research, a leading analyst firm, has produced a new whitepaper on ERP upgrade projects. The paper discusses key challenges for ERP upgrades and how Delphix database virtualization can be used to overcome these problems. Get the whitepaper here.

 

Data Integration Application Projects Informatica (NASD: INFA) completed an internal Master Data Management project in 2011, designed to integrate data from 6 customer systems into a single master view of customers. The resulting application helps Informatica sales and marketing teams close more deals, sooner. The project was delivered 50% ahead of schedule using Delphix. The CIO, Tony Young, was awarded an IT Innovators award by Ventana Research for this work. Get the case study here.

 

Delphix For Application Projects Delphix accelerates the application lifecycle by eliminating delays in creating and managing test data. Delphix customers are putting applications into production up to 50% faster, with fewer bugs and production outages. Get the Delphix data sheet here.