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Thank you for your participation in the IT Key Metrics Data Survey. This IT Key Metrics Data 2011: Application Support Summary Report provides an overview of Application Support key metrics. Sourced from Gartner research note (RN)# G00208279, IT Key Metrics Data 2011: Key Applications Measures: Application Support: Current Year Questions? Interested in Custom Extracts or Benchmarking? Contact us at benchmarkinginfo@gartner.com More information on Gartners Benchmark Analytics solutions can be obtained at: www.gartner.com/benchmarking
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IT Key Metrics Data 2011: Application Support Summary Report .................................................... 4 Application Support Spend Distribution ($US) ..................................................................... 4 Distribution of Application Support Activities: By Region ..................................................... 5 Existence of a Service Level Agreement/Set of Objectives for Application Support Team . 6 Break/Fix repair time included in Service Level Agreement................................................. 6 Performance Measurement Solutions from Gartner............................................................. 7 About Gartner ....................................................................................................................... 8
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IT Key Metrics Data 2011: Application Support Summary Report Looking Ahead
The measures that follow highlight key cost and performance measures in the Applications domain. The measures explored should help to identify overall trends, although individual variations from these trends may be justified by specific business needs, as well as differences due to size and complexity of an organizations Applications environment.
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0% Occupancy Software - Development Software Software - User Vendor Packages Hardware Personnel
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Application support spend distribution provides insight into what cost areas are consuming the application support budget.
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EMEA Bug Fixes Minor Enhancements Business & Operations Support Technical Upgrades Other 17% 20% 46% 17% 0%
This distribution provides further detail regarding how application maintenance activities are distributed in terms of time spent supporting faulty or aging systems vs. supporting changing user demand.
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Service Level agreements help set expectations between a IS and business units. They outline the types services to be delivered, the single point of contact for end-user problems and the metrics by which the effectiveness of the process is monitored and approved.
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Break/Fix Repair Time is the amount of time that is required to make a defective application operational. This would constitute an unplanned incident.
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