Modern IT Architecture Survey 2016
Online survey among 85 C-level IT professionals
in cooperation with our lead business partner leanIX
Enterprise & IT Architecture Management

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Table of contents
Overview of the sample
• Profile of the participants 4
Results of the study
• Impact of digital transformation on the IT industry 6
• Feedback collection from the business 7
• Applications offered inside or outside the company 8
• Updates of provided IT solutions 9
• Update cycles 10
• New technologies & strategies 11
• Current operated systems 12
• Technological trends & technology risk 13
• Enterprise architecture tools 14
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Profile of the participants
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Target
companies
Multi-corporate enterprises, mid-sized
businesses, hidden champions, and public
administration
Target group CIOs, Heads of IT, and senior IT professionals,
from the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands, and
Nordics
Method Online questionnaire distributed via e-mail
Period February 8 - 22, 2016
Participants 85 decision makers from the areas IT
architecture, IT infrastructure, IT Security &
Enterprise Mobility
Manager
/ Senior
Manager
/ Project
Leader;
33%
Director
/ Head of
/ Leader;
33%
Board
Member
/ Vice
President
/ C-level;
26%
Other;
8%
Job level of the participants
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25%
Chemicals, Materials & Food
Energy & Power Systems
Professional & Consulting Services
Consumer Products & Retail
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Other
Automotive & Transportation
Finance, Banking & Insurance
Information & Communication Technologies
Industry of the participants
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
< 1,000 1,000 -
5,000
5,001 -
10,000
10,001 -
50,000
50,001 -
100,000
>
100,000
Approximate numbers of employees

Impact of digital transformation on the IT strategy
6
How much is your IT impacted by digital transformation?
43%
27%
25%
5%
A lot
Quite a bit
Totally
Not much

7
Feedback collection from the business
We have heterogeneous teams of Business
and IT in place to allow frictionless
collaboration
We develop a deep understanding of the
business requirements in IT
We use collaboration tools to encourage direct
information exchange
We set up joint KPIs that can be understood
both by Business and by IT
Other
40%
22%
20%
17%
1%
How do you collect feedback from the business that your services and solutions actually
work?

To what extent is IT in charge of the applications offered inside or outside
the company?
Applications offered inside or outside the company
8
55%35%
10%
50-99%
100%
less than 50%
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Updates of provided IT solutions
9
What is the fastest release or update cycle of
your provided IT solutions you have to support?
To what extent is continuous deployment used
to support the update cycles?
Several times per day
Once a month
Once a week
Once a day
Once a year
6%
49%
26%
10%
9%
38% Continuous integration is in place, but
deployment has to be conducted manually
29% First steps in the direction of continuous
deployment have to be taken
11% Continuous deployment and integration has no
priority for us
22% A complete deployment pipeline (e.g. with
blue/green deployment) has been established
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Update cycles
10
How do you ensure high quality for the end-
users while maintaining fast update cycles? *
Peer reviews
57% Automatic unit
and integration
tests
44%
Automatic
performance
tests
36%
Automatic UI
tests
32%
Other
6%
Intuitive user-interface
Manually
Webinars
44%
40%
35%
Videos 26%
Classroom training 46%
Other 4%
How do you ensure training for the end-users
while maintaining fast update cycles? *
* Multiple choice possible

New technologies & strategies
11
Technology is
not well
developed
22%
How do you screen the market for new technologies and application strategies? *
60% We actively engage with industry peers to gather new ideas for applying emerging
technologies
59% We actively engage with external sources (e.g. vendors, consultants) to gather new ideas
for applying emerging technologies
11% Other
13% We don’t screen the market actively

Current operated systems
12
*Multiple choice possible
How do you monitor the performance (availability,
response time) of your operated systems?
4% Continuous deployment and integration has no
priority for us
25% A complete deployment pipeline (e.g. with
blue/green deployment) has been established
36% IT Operations are monitoring the infrastructure
without considering the business impact
35% Business, Development & IT Operations have joint
KPIs to monitor the systems from IT and Business side
What architecture patterns and technologies shape
your current architecture? *
22% OAuth
66% Central user authorization for all
applications
54% REST APIs
27% Microservices
13% Webhooks
10% Docker
4% Other

Technological trends & technology risk
13
What is the most important technological
trend that shapes your IT operations?
Continuous integration
Application performance management
Containerization (e.g. Docker)
30%
27%
4%
Videos
Continuous deployment 36%
3%
How do you handle technology risk, e.g. end-of-
life of third party software? *
We handle
the available
lifecycle data
ourselves
67%
We use lifecycle
market data,
e.g.
Technopedia
36%
Don’t know
9%
We rely on
our vendors
40%

Enterprise Architecture tools
14
If there was an out-of-the-box Enterprise Architecture tool available
which gets you up and running within a week would you consider
this a proper solution?
44%
29%
27%
Yes
Don't know
No
On-premise
Does not matter
33%
26%
SaaS in the Cloud 41%
If you were to choose such a tool what would be your
preferred operating model?
What architecture patterns and technologies shape
your current architecture? *
Performance
78%
Cost
66%
Interfaces
34%
Risk
52%
Availability
65%
Incidents
44%
User Activity
44%
Transactions
34%
Support
tickets
28%
Bugs
26%
Lines of
Codes
7%Other
2%

Open interfaces of leanIX ensure a smooth and rapid
integration
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