The Business Case

LiveApp Player

Most businesses today face the challenge of doing more with less. From the IT perspective, this means:

• Keeping development costs down.
  
• Leveraging and adapting current systems.

Within these constraints, however, organizations must ensure that their systems are compliant with the latest technologies and standards (such as XML and Web Services) or risk being left behind. And more importantly, IT systems and applications need to be able to adapt quickly to changing business requirement, or their value to the organization will steadily diminish.

Increasing complex business processes require increasingly complex applications, capable of handling high volumes of data from multiple sources and integration with a variety of other applications. But in today’s business environment, the plodding pace of traditional, coded-centric application development can render some applications nearly out of date when they are finally ready to deploy – at considerable expense. On the other hand, packaged applications too often only offer “chocolate, vanilla or strawberry” functionality that can’t be tailored to meet unique – let alone constantly changing – business requirements.

In short, companies faced with shrinking IT dollars and the need for up-to-date, feature-rich, flexible applications need to:

• reduce the complexity and time involved in application development;
  
• find cost-effective alternatives to (a) costly custom development or (b) packaged products that don’t meet their current or future business needs; and
  
• deploy solutions that are easily adaptable to changing business requirements.

So how can organizations (a) leverage their existing IT infrastructure, (b) deploy feature-rich, custom solutions quickly, and (c) keep their IT systems in line with their business needs over the long haul?

The LiveApp player makes all of this possible. Just like you upgrade your operating systems to get latest technology and features, you can upgrade the LiveApp Player to ensure that your solutions have all the latest technology and features as well. The LiveApp Player also includes a tool called the LiveModeler for integrating new and existing technology and products and the LiveIntegrator for integrating disparate functionalities into a powerful business application.