The productivity and satisfaction of federal employees is being negatively impacted by slow, glitch-prone IT apps, according to a research study by application performance company Riverbed Technology and the Government Business Council.
“It\u2019s not acceptable for consumer applications to be down in the private sector and it shouldn\u2019t be in government,” said Davis Johnson, vice president of public sector at Riverbed Technology. “However, we\u2019re finding many federal agencies don\u2019t have the visibility tools they need to quickly solve trouble areas before they cause application performance issues. What\u2019s needed to prevent performance issues from spoiling the promise of federal IT modernization and digital transformation is better end-to-end application and network visibility.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These unreliable apps and strained network resources are threatening IT modernization efforts, according to the findings. Speed, load times, and application crashes and freezes ranked at the top for sources of IT-related frustration. Improved responsiveness ranked as the No. 1 desired application improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The three most poorly rated app types are workplace collaboration tools, communication tools\u00a0\u2014\u00a0such as video and chat\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and database applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A general consensus among more than half those surveyed was there is cause for concern over whether agencies can handle potential technical issues that may arise with future application rollouts. The primary challenges to readiness include budget constraints, a lack of leadership\/planning, lack of in-house technical expertise and security concerns, among other reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A research study by the Government Business Council and Riverbed Technology finds unresponsive, crash-prone IT applications and inconsistent troubleshooting and problem resolution to be impeding agency effectiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":31027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":14,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[63,14],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1269],"class_list":["post-11264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud","category-it-networks"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"BW2TB2IXWNGKZHXNDZ2SYRZ6VU","arc_canonical_url":"\/it-networks\/2016\/12\/07\/federal-agencies-need-to-improve-it-app-performance-management-says-survey\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n