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For the digital enterprise making use of the best-in-breed applications is non-negotiable, and the number they are relying on is increasing. Workforces on average rely on 162 applications to stay productive, according to cloud identity and access management platform Okta's recent "Businesses @ Work" report. This is a departure from the traditional enterprise approach of stack simplicity; purchasing one integrated system from a big vendor like Microsoft, Oracle or SAP.
[...] To discuss the changing landscape, senior leaders from three of the most successful enterprise applications – communications platform Slack, cloud content management platform Box, and Okta itself – hosted a breakfast roundtable. They cautioned that while increased application volumes are improving enterprise productivity, they are also bringing fresh complexities.
[Source: https://techerati.com/features-hub/opinions/how-can-enterprises-avoid-app-overflow]
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Saturday May 04 2019, @08:36PM
does the core program count as "one", or do you count the AWS stack, the reference databases, the document store, the middleware, the HR data export and import system, the public portal, etc etc?
The users will count this system as "one". The poor system owner and IT department will see and maintain 20+
Even using a word prcessor, saving a document can be done locally (On the PC), or on the share drive, or to the vitual share drive (which also creates a record in the document archive system.. One document, up to three systems..
Even the printers have a ui and require your building access card (activedirectory, print server, etc).. So another four or five "applications" every time you print.
Tl;dr: "we're software companies, you neeeeed us!"
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