The best enterprises know they can assess the impact of change in their IT environment before deploying a patch or update that causes Windows applications to fail. The challenge is most enterprises still haven’t adopted an automated application lifecycle management strategy, so they run the risk of application failure.
Today’s blue screen headlines are impactful. Global airlines aren’t flying, U.S. 911 emergency systems are down, city governments are frozen, retailers can’t conduct business. An IT update from a major vendor crashed critical services and it’s the top story on global news channels.
It’s essential for every enterprise IT department to have a standard, automated process to always test the impact of change on Windows applications.
Automated, Comprehensive Application Change Diagnostics: Intelligent Program Smoke Testing
Change management processes need to include automated, comprehensive diagnostics. That’s why Rimo3 created and patented Intelligent Program Smoke Testing. With the Rimo3 platform, enterprise IT teams can quickly and comprehensively launch preliminary “smoke” testing on an unspecified target application with an unknown name, function, and operational mechanics, all while leveraging automation and compute without any human intervention.
The intelligent test program analyzes the custom environment and the application – including dependencies – to generate detailed reports on the target application’s functionality. The Rimo3 platform identifies and documents the application’s callback functions to automatically create a smoke test script for initial computing system assessments in future testing.
Critical Insights for CIOs and IT Leaders Who Don’t Want to Be Headline News
Until today, many CIOs have avoided spending the time and money on understanding the impact of change on applications – even as their competitors are adopting an enterprise grade application lifecycle management platform that is available, proven, and affordable.
Why?
- Applications are complex. Enterprises own hundreds or thousands of applications.
- Manual testing is traditional, but it can’t fully show the impact of a patch or update to line of business applications. It’s hard to catch anomalies with a human’s limited knowledge and tight timelines.
- Risk isn’t always top of mind. Often IT teams wing it due to lack of time or resources – what’s the worst that can happen? The answer is headline news.
Analyzing hundreds of applications at the same time, the Rimo3 platform helps CIOs and their IT teams understand the risk of change.
- Will a patch take down your entire customer call center?
- Will an OS update knock out the application your wealth management advisors use to generate revenue or a competitive advantage?
- Will a VDI migration cause a retailer’s checkout terminals to go dark?
With the Rimo3 platform, enterprises quickly assess the impact of deploying any cumulative update – in context to your specific physical, virtual, and cloud-based workspace – to address application issues, security vulnerabilities, compliance, and governance standards. Rimo3 leverages automation and putting enterprises in a position to deploy security patches and application updates with an eye toward a day zero stance.
Rimo3 is privileged to work with service partners who understand the potential to help enterprise IT departments avoid downtime, meet IT modernization goals, and navigate change.
"Today's widespread downtime due to an untested update is a stark reminder of the high costs associated with application failures. Coretek stays ahead of these risks by utilizing Rimo3 automation capabilities, ensuring comprehensive testing and optimization of applications to safeguard continuous operation for our clients," said Matt Scudder, VP of Sales for Coretek, a finalist for the Services Innovation 2024 Microsoft Americas Partner of the Year Award.
Reduce Risk with Modern, Automated Application Management
Most days, Rimo3 works with enterprise IT leaders who want to understand the art of the possible. Day-to-day application management is on the radar for progressive, highly mature IT organizations who know the value of assessing and measuring every change.
Other maturing organizations are working with Rimo3 to create application strategies for desired (and often time-bound) change: Windows 11 migrations, Microsoft SCCM to Intune migrations, VDI moves, or even a more complex scenario where the destination (or desired set of destinations has yet to be determined). The only way to achieve a proper journey map to multiple destinations is through automated data collection and analysis.
Today, we’re urgently discussing the risks of application downtime. If today’s outage gave your IT team a wake-up call, reach out to Rimo3 or our savvy service partners.
