What Strong App Development Demand Means to Channel
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The Backlog Grows
A full 82% of those polled said their app development backlog is growing, and 89% said they could not reduce it year over year. -
ROI Under Pressure
Most projects are delivered late (69%) and even more (76%) are over budget. -
Missed Goals
Nearly two-thirds (64%) don't fully meet requirements or provide expected business value (66%). -
Turnaround for a New App
Only 6% can do it in weeks. Almost a quarter (22%) said it would take multiple years. Nearly half (46%) report it would take them multiple quarters to build a new app. -
Turnaround for Change Requests
9% admitted it can take years to process change requests, 37% reported it would take months and 30% said it requires multiple quarters. -
Strongest Areas of App Demand
Mobile apps top the list, at 75%, with 68% saying they need those apps to be able to run across multiple channels. -
Types of Apps Needed
Customer- and partner-facing apps (56%), reporting and analytics (55%), document and content management (54%) and extending existing systems (51%) are driving demand. -
Total Number of Projects
A full 68% said they completed one to 20 projects last year, and 64% said they are looking at a similar number this year. -
Development Methodologies
While 36% said they were using Agile development methodologies, just as many said they are still using traditional waterfall methodologies. -
Citizen Developers
Backlog falls on the shoulders of professional developers; 78% report lacking tools to enable business users to develop apps. -
Collaboration Challenges
App development remains fairly monolithic: 75% can't easily create and share prototypes. -
Tools and Infrastructures Issues
A full 75% lack an integrated development environment; 74% said development tools and infrastructure are not readily available. -
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There's a lot of demand for new applications these days, but IT organizations are falling behind across the board, according to a new survey of 470 IT and business professionals conducted by Mendix, a provider of rapid application development (RAD) tools. Not only are application development backlogs growing, but the apps being delivered don't meet business needs and they are generally late and over budget, the study finds. It takes most IT organizations multiple quarters to build an application. As the backlog in demand for applications continues to grow, many organizations are increasingly likely to be looking for outside help to build those apps as pressure from the business continues to mount. All those bottlenecks, of course, represent a critical problem for solution providers across the channel because the rate of new applications and upgrades being deployed directly correlates to the amount of new IT infrastructure being consumed. As such, many solution providers now also have a vested interest in teaching IT customers how to take advantage of new development methodologies to accelerate application development and deployment in and out of the cloud.
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