Application Sizing

The Sylverlane application-sizing offering provides an objective assessment of the requirements of new applications and their impact on the existing IT infrastructure.

The evolution of Client/Server computing and the utilization of the Internet as a viable method of communicating and obtaining information has challenged the effectiveness of existing applications and their ability to maintain a business' competitive edge. As businesses migrate to Client/Server computing, existing applications must be re-engineered or new applications must be introduced to effectively support the new business environment. But many issues and questions arise when making a significant change to business applications, eg:

• What are the costs involved?
• How long will it take to implement a new application?
• What will the impact be on existing systems?
• What will the impact be on the user community?
• What are management and maintenance requirements?
• How will it improve our business?

The Application Sizing service provides a proven method for evaluating the effectiveness and impact of introducing a new application into existing business systems. The main goals of this service are:

• Reducing the risk of introducing a new application by developing applications to meet business-related performance goals.
• Determining application performance with regards to business needs.
• Estimating the system and network requirements to support the application.
• Estimating the management and training requirements to support the application.
• This service goes further than vendor published system requirements, it draws on a baseline capacity plan and using capacity management tools, models the impact of the new application on the existing IT infrastructure.