Gartner Says Adopting a Pace-Layered Application Strategy Can Accelerate ...
"There is a gap developing between the business users of enterprise applications and the IT professionals charged with providing these applications," said Yvonne Genovese, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. "The business leaders are looking for modern, easy-to-use applications that can be quickly deployed to solve a specific problem or respond to a market opportunity. The IT organization is typically working toward a strategic goal of standardizing on a limited set of comprehensive application suites in order to minimize integration issues, maximize security and reduce IT costs. These competing goals often lead to strategic misalignment."
In the Gartner Special Report, "Accelerating Innovation by Adopting a Pace-Layered Application Strategy," ( http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/pace-layered-application-strategy/ ), Gartner analysts explain that Gartner's Pace-Layered Application Strategy is a new methodology for categorizing applications and developing a differentiated management and governance process that reflects how they are used and their rate of change.
Deslandes had 18 months to get KapStone off the seller's legacy IT systems and replace them with an architecture and infrastructure that could support the new company's aggressive growth-through-acquisition strategy. By 2008, Northbrook, Ill.-based
