Podcast

ETM’s Ali Klaver talks to Kevin Parker from Serena Software about application development and delivery.

Kevin: “For the last decade there’s been a huge compression of IT budgets. I was talking to a customer recently who was saying that we’ve got to the point with IT budgets where: “the lemon has been squeezed so tightly that there is not a drop left. In fact, all you can actually hear are the pips squeaking!”

"Our customers are under this enormous compression of the available budget, but at the same time the lines of business are bringing all those ideas forward for IT to implement and create solutions for—and they want them faster than ever. The whole pace and cadence of business continues to accelerate. We now have tighter budgets and demand for faster time to market. We are living in the most highly regulated and compliance-required environment that we have ever seen. This in itself is piling up on the IT departments and then the business is also asking them to implement cool social media stuff and mashups. We’re escalating the technology delivery and complexity, and we’re adding delivery to the cloud, mobile devices and embedded systems, and suddenly we’ve got increasing orders of magnitude and complexity in everything we do.”