Red Hat Research Report Sample

IDC studied the business value of adopting the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on behalf of Red Hat by interviewing six large United States–based companies that used JBoss to develop custom applications and have been running the applications for at least 12 months. On average, the companies in the study gained more than $6 million a year in financial benefits by moving from traditional proprietary application servers to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. This translated to $20,240 per 100 users. The six companies in the study were able to realize the following key benefits: • Time to develop custom applications was reduced by an average of 16 weeks (39%). • Developer hours for each application were reduced by 24%. • Infrastructure costs supporting application development were reduced by 65%. • Costs to manage applications following deployment were reduced by 89%. • Because of more efficient application development, companies were able to develop 51% more applications per year. Over a three-year period, companies deploying JBoss generated an ROI of 569% and paid back their initial investment in less than six months after the platform was fully deployed.