A huge percentage of organisations have inadequate
processes and procedures in place for performance testing new
applications according to research commissioned by Morse, the
technology integration and services company.
The survey of 100 IT directors conducted by Vanson Bourne found
that only one in ten firms have the necessary performance testing
in place. Morse warns that the majority of organisations are
leaving themselves exposed to poor application performance or even
application failure when they go live with new applications.
In addition, a third of organisations admit that the impact of
poor application performance costs them over £1 million and 15%
over £2 million each year.
Three quarters of organisations also admitted that they
encounter some performance problems when deploying new
applications, highlighting, says Morse, the deficiencies in the
performance testing most organisations undertake.
Comments Chris Reid, Managing Consultant, Morse, 'Ideally,
businesses need to be thoroughly testing any IT implementation or
deployment, from new storage and security to migrating business
data, before it goes live. Otherwise there can be serious impact to
critical business processes and, more often than not, the bottom
line. Obviously testing costs, but this is insignificant when you
consider hundreds of thousands, and in some cases millions, of
pounds are being wasted due to unforeseen application and IT
infrastructure problems.'
Additionally, three quarters of businesses said they have to
tune components of the application and IT environment, and nearly
two thirds said they had to make changes to the application or
database design. Just over half had to buy extra hardware to
increase capacity to combat performance problems.