Helen Ching

Application currency is the ongoing process of determining how current an application is, compared to the latest available version. Application currency is an emerging concept and is closely related to the concept of application compatibility. Application compatibility testing typically refers to the one-time review of whether or not applications are compatible with a targeted operating system and is how organizations get their application to be current. Application currency refers to the ongoing monitoring of applications to ensure they are always kept up to date with application vendor upgrades as well as operating system upgrades. Why does an organization need to worry about application currency? As a result of tighter IT budgets over the last decade, and growing demand by the business for new functionality, many IT organizations have had to focus their efforts on... (more)