Longtail Apps have always been an area of concern for IT managers, bleeding money, time and effort! Why not do something about it? What are the key challenges preventing Long tail Apps Management?

1. The curious case of… ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? …Long tail apps

2. Core business apps are IT Favorites! Popularity No. of applications Core Biz Apps, on central infrastructure ERP SCM CRM

3. Then, there are the supporting apps Popularity No. of applications HRMS ESS Audits Supporting Apps/Systems, Somewhat peripheral & distributed

5. Local Asset Requests

7. WHY? These Peripheral, Scattered & distributed Apps have always been area of concern for IT Managers !

8. These Apps start in pockets and grow all across the organization over time within their own pockets

9. MS – Access, MS - Excel Lotus Notes Built by end-users or sub-organizations, using whatever quick tools are available at disposal Oracle Forms Visual Basic

10. They are often used to keep the business going, to keep up with KTLO routine

11. Keep The Lights On They are often used to keep the business going, to keep up with KTLO routine

12. But they are locally built, hundreds of them, many of them for the same purpose

13. ? ? ? ? In all the unwanted places

14. Growing in uncontrollable manner, bleeding money, time & effort $ $ $

15. …while all central IT efforts are focused on core systems.

16. ! Long Tail Apps are thus born !

17. Popularity / Usage # of Applications

19. Tracked by CIOs

21. 200+ Small / medium apps

22. Approx. 10 to 50 users per app

23. Non-mission critical, less important

24. Developed by power end users

25. Short lifetime – weeks or months# of Applications

27. Tracked by CIOs

29. 200+ Small / medium apps

30. Approx. 10 to 50 users per app

31. Non-mission critical, less important

32. Developed by power end users

34. Tracked by CIOs

36. 200+ Small / medium apps

37. Approx. 10 to 50 users per app

38. Non-mission critical, less important

39. Developed by power end users

40. Short lifetime – weeks or months# of Applications

41. These Apps continue to use outdated technology… !

42. They use multiple and mutually inconsistent approaches for the same problem

43. They are difficult to monitor

44. They are heterogeneous

45. They are scattered

46. They end up on non-uniform platforms or architecture

47. And there are simply too many of them!!!

48. We see the problem!

49. Why not do something About it??!! We see the problem!

50. Why not do something 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. About it??!! 1. Popularity Body Long tail Head No. of apps Cost Per application has been too high for centralization

51. Why not do something The scattered and heterogeneity of long tail apps doesn’t seem all worth the effort in absence of a pragmatic approach. About it??!! 2. It doesn’t seem worth all the effort!

52. Why not do something Inherent Business Innovation characteristics are hampered by the difficulty of development & accessibility problems of traditional IT infrastructure About it??!! 3. Central IT Infrastructure not conducive for “continuous innovation”

53. Why not do something The available set of target platform options do not provide the cost-effective migration path and sustenance. About it??!! 4. ? We didn’t have an alternative cost effective platform

54. Costs Per application too high for centralization ! It doesn’t seem worth all the effort! Central Infrastructure not too conducive for continuous innovation We had to live with these problems We don’t have an alternative cost effective platform

55. ! Until We had to live with these problems

56. ! ! Cloud happened!!! We had to live with these problems

57. ! www.orangescape.com www.twitter.com/orangescape www.slideshare.net/orangescape Visual PaaS We had to live with these problems ! ! ! ! …enables long tail Apps Management

58. ! www.orangescape.com www.twitter.com/orangescape www.slideshare.net/orangescape Visual PaaS We had to live with these problems ! ! ! ! …enables long tail Apps Management