Lower costs and improve profitability
With constant changes in information architectures and an ever-reducing IT staff, it is both economical and effective to move to a managed application platform. LongJump provides both an immediate and enduring approach to lowering application development costs. Rather than bringing in highly paid consultants or investing in custom architectures for simple but specific projects, many "long tail" IT applications can be built immediately with the on-demand LongJump platform. Over time, with more applications being built and served on the platform, the individual user-per-application costs become reduced to pennies per day.
Meet faster time-to-value requirements
Many long lead IT projects take months of planning, testing, and execution, and over time changes in requirements can also slow down successful implementations. With LongJump, businesses can focus on data and process design to deliver applications quickly, instead of ordering, managing, provisioning, and testing application infrastructures. In addition, LongJump provides a quick start to applications so developers do not have to rebuild common, enterprise-grade components, interfaces or processes. If you know your data and how you want to map out processes, a completely functional application can be built and deployed to your team in minutes.
Leverage data across the enterprise
Because of LongJump's centralized database approach to applications and related data, any object in one application can be re-used and related to objects in another application. This helps to create single, consistent, multi-use records for a complete 360-degree view of that business entity. Leveraging data in this way allows for a variety of consolidation and collaboration scenarios to unify or aggregate enterprise data and analysis and streamline processes across different departments or functional areas.
Add management visibility and compliance
LongJump helps IT improve overall management visibility and compliance by standardizing the way all custom applications access data, creating actionable policies around data, and mapping out defined workflows as part of the business processes. Administrative levels can build very sophisticated reports across all data sets to gain visibility into company operations.
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Reduce maintenance requirements
Gartner estimates maintenance on enterprise systems can be 30% of their initial cost. As a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, all management of backend systems is handled by LongJump. There are no servers to upgrade, no databases to patch, no optimization to worry about, and no software licenses to manage. LongJump is the transparent, fully-managed single-vendor application architecture solution IT has been waiting for.
Acheive greater IT to business alignment
Why should developers waste their valuable ingenuity on building the same basic components of an enterprise business application, when they could be solving real business problems? With LongJump, skip the late-night hacking cycles of database and user administration, reporting, and interaction design and focus on the core information management and processing issues troubling your constituents. IT teams that struggle with business alignment issues can use LongJump as a single platform improving the quality of IT services and conveying their experience and best practices. Because the hurdles of application development are reduced or in some cases eliminated, IT can spend their energies providing guidance around information modeling and data management to solve key issues around the organization, rather than tactics for "keeping the lights on."
Meet changing business needs
Because of the ease of development and delivery, application changes can be made quickly to support new business requirements. This enables IT to be highly responsive to their constituents. Changes can be implemented on-demand so business users see immediate results. In some cases, simple changes (such as to the data model or policy engine) can be handled at the user or manager level so IT doesn't need to be involved.
Homogeneity and infrastructure refresh
LongJump aides IT teams in reducing the silo effect. By providing an application platform and data repository for situational and specialized business needs, many smaller, legacy applications can be rolled into a single enterprise-accessible platform. In addition, LongJump can also provide a home for rogue applications for every department, as well as business processes that have been conducted using spreadsheets or other ad-hoc databases. This ultimately reduces the number of vendors, hardware, and software licenses that IT has to manage and pay for. LongJump also provides a single, industry standard connection to other areas of the enterprise with REST, SOAP, Java-based connection points. |
