COTS vs aPaaS: When 80% isn’t Good Enough
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Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software is often used by governments but Application Platform-as-a-Service (aPaaS) is better suited for modernization efforts as it allows building customized applications rapidly. Unlike COTS that may only satisfy 80% of needs, aPaaS provides 100% of requirements while reducing legacy infrastructure costs. It enables multiple applications on shared infrastructure and mobile app development without maintaining different OS versions. aPaaS deployed on FedRAMP certified cloud reduces security spending needs.
COTS vs aPaaS: When 80% isn’t Good Enough
- 1. COTS vs aPaaS: When 80% isn’t Good Enough
- 2. Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software has long been the answer for many government needs. However, Application Platform-as-a-Service (aPaaS) is the future for any organization that is serious about IT modernization efforts.
- 3. aPaaS holds the key to digital transformation. It’s the underlying technology that allows government agencies to rapidly build and customize innovative applications. Why?
- 4. The 80/20 Rule If you failed to discover a product that satisfies at least 80 percent of your requirements, you would consider building a solution or accept a COTS solution as ‘good enough’.
- 5. The problem with these choices is that you're destined to be unsatisfied: Either the custom solution takes too long to build, or you discover the remaining 20% of your requirements are actually critical to your success.
- 6. The 100% Solution Achieve the 100% solution, while also reducing the cost of your legacy infrastructure.
- 7. Although operations and maintenance (O&M) costs will never be eliminated, with aPaaS, further funds can be allocated toward new technologies. In a report by Forrester Research, the measured economic value for customers interviewed for the report totaled over $28M over a three year period.
- 8. Within your public sector agency, multiple applications can be deployed on the same set of infrastructure. Additionally, unlike COTS point solutions, these applications can serve virtually any function that an agency performs. Reduce Your Operations and Maintenance Spending
- 9. Integration components are shared by developers, which ultimately reduces the level of effort to tie new applications into an existing legacy environment.
- 10. By leveraging aPaaS for development, your organization can easily build and deploy native mobile applications, removing the responsibility for maintaining and testing code against multiple mobile operating system versions. 1 2 3 4 5
- 11. Deploying your applications on a managed, FedRAMP certified cloud reduces the need to spend on IT security to maintain the environment.
- 12. aPaaS is the perfect driver for innovation within public sector, as it gives organizations the flexibility they need for rapid, agile development. Through aPaaS and Appian, federal agencies can now create and deploy applications 10x faster. aPaaS is the perfect driver
- 13. Benefits of the Cloud The Appian Platform is available in the cloud with the security certifications government agencies need in order to ensure a well governed and compliant solution.
- 14. This can dramatically reduce overhead costs for maintaining systems while allowing the vendor to manage uptime. Moving to the cloud also ensures a clear upgrade path for future releases, all handled by the vendor.
- 15. Visit our Federal resource center to learn how your agency can harness the power of the Appian Platform to uncover strategies for high-speed, cost-effective IT modernization that fit your specific organization demands. appian.com/federal