IBM has reduced its number of internal applications by 70%, but that's not enough for CIO Jeanette Horan.
When the company started its consolidation effort, it had about 16,000 applications. It has since cut that number to 4,500, "but it's still too many," Horan said.
Horan has given her IT team the task of cutting the number of remaining applications in half by the end of 2015. That would result in an overall reduction of about 85% from the original 16,000.
"I don't know whether we will make it or not, but it's a good goal," Horan said in an interview.
IBM's goal is to have common global applications across all business units.
"If you've got different applications in different countries, you don't have a global process," said Horan, who was appointed to her post one year ago.
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I am not so sure about trying having ONE application across countries where local laws and regulations play an important role as how the application should be running.
A global process is such that different countries play a part of the whole and not using one pair of shoes to fit all feet approach - my thinking
What would you say?
cheers ...
When the company started its consolidation effort, it had about 16,000 applications. It has since cut that number to 4,500, "but it's still too many," Horan said.
Horan has given her IT team the task of cutting the number of remaining applications in half by the end of 2015. That would result in an overall reduction of about 85% from the original 16,000.
"I don't know whether we will make it or not, but it's a good goal," Horan said in an interview.
IBM's goal is to have common global applications across all business units.
"If you've got different applications in different countries, you don't have a global process," said Horan, who was appointed to her post one year ago.
via
I am not so sure about trying having ONE application across countries where local laws and regulations play an important role as how the application should be running.
A global process is such that different countries play a part of the whole and not using one pair of shoes to fit all feet approach - my thinking
What would you say?
cheers ...
