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New Report Links Change Management Maturity and Improved Business Benefits

Vienna, VA (PRWEB) October 9, 2007 -- StackSafe's IT Operations Research Report: Change Management Maturity was released today. The report revealed that while many companies display some characteristics of change management maturity, most can still improve a great deal. The study of over 400 IT operations professionals, conducted by Research Edge, Inc., also shows five key areas that can be attributed to a company's maturity level:

1.    Adhere to regularly scheduled changes

2.    Automate the change management process

3.    Maintain and utilize a testing environment

4.    Adopt ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) or some other change management framework

5.    Test changes against the entire infrastructure stack to understand the full impact of changes

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?    Each of these maturity factors is measured against key business benefits to assess its impact and show a company's potential room for growth.

?    Resistance to change represents a key concern for companies of all sizes according to the study. When companies display a difficulty in implementing changes they often face production problems: increased staff demands, emergency changes, decreased confidence in future changes, and an overall difficulty with the change management process.

?    All of these problems contribute to company downtime and its ability to remain productive.

?    The report identifies that nearly a quarter of all changes go bad, with over half of all respondents citing unforeseen interaction between systems and insufficient pre-production testing as reasons why changes cause problems in production.

?    Companies with the highest maturity level made automated changes at weekly intervals and possessed a strong testing program that could test against the entire stack.

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Interested parties can see an executive summary (http://www.stacksafe.com/images/ExecSummary_100907.pdf) of the findings.

The full report is accessible with free registration at www.stacksafe.com/research.

Quotes attributed to Loren Burnett, President and CEO of StackSafe.

?    This study clearly shows that being able to test and predict how software infrastructure changes are going to affect existing IT services can greatly reduce costly failures.

?    We can clearly see as companies raise their change management maturity they have fewer and fewer problems with implementing changes in their environments.

?    As companies institute more changes, they need to safely evaluate the risk that these updates could represent for their key business applications.

About the Study:

?    Research Edge recruited and screened 400 respondents who were and asked to complete a 30 minute web-based survey.

?    A sample size of 400 provides an error margin of +/- 5% at a 95% level of confidence.

?    Respondents verified company size, job position, industry, scope of IT decision making, etc. and were screened against the following criteria:

- Work for a company that employs over 750 employees

- Hold position of IT operations managers and/or responsible for IT operations

- Support multi-tier applications as part of daily position

For information about StackSafe, Inc. please visit www.stacksafe.com.

For Media Inquiries: Joe Pendry, StackSafe, T: (703) 225-2528, media2007@stacksafe.com

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