{"id":4225,"date":"2013-10-16T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=4225"},"modified":"2013-11-12T02:24:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T10:24:20","slug":"technology-the-staggering-costs-of-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/technology-the-staggering-costs-of-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology: The Staggering Costs of Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>79 percent of companies say that they experienced at least one &#8216;major&#8217; technology fault in their systems within the past year, and 51 percent said that they&#8217;ve had a major roblem within just the last three months.  75 percent say that the frequencies of these major problems occurring hasn&#8217;t been improving.  Those are the <a title=\"Study on Business IT failures\" href=\"http:\/\/www.compuware.com\/content\/dam\/compuware\/about\/techfail\/Study-The-True-Cost-of-Poor-Technology-Performance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">results of a study<\/a> prepared by Intellitrends on behalf of Compuware.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Paul Czarnik bio\" href=\"www.linkedin.com\/pub\/paul-czarnik\/6\/13a\/92b\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Czarnik<\/a>, Compuware CTO, <a title=\"Paul Czarnik quote\" href=\"http:\/\/www.compuware.com\/en_us\/about\/techfail.html\" target=\"_blank\">said that<\/a>, &#8220;no company can roll back IT complexity.  It\u2019s a fundamental fact of doing business today. With rising complexity and rising stakes, the price of failure has never been greater.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bob Parisi bio\" href=\"www.linkedin.com\/pub\/bob-parisi\/8\/576\/523\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Parisi<\/a>, network security and privacy practice leader at Marsh, <a title=\"Technology Failure costs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianunderwriter.ca\/news\/unplanned-technology-failure-an-overlooked-critical-business-risk-marsh\/1002607878\/\" target=\"_blank\">said that<\/a> &#8220;the impact of technology failures on supply chains and general operations is a potentially more severe threat that many businesses may be overlooking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Businesses average a loss of 545 person-hours every year because of IT system failures, <a title=\"545 lost hours due to system failures\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ca.com\/us\/news\/Press-Releases\/na\/2011\/CA-Technologies-Survey-Reveals-IT-Systems-Failures-Cost-Businesses-127-Million-Lost-Person.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">a report from CA Technologies<\/a> found.  The <a title=\"Aberdeen report on system failures\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stratus.com\/~\/media\/Stratus\/Files\/Library\/AnalystReports\/AberdeenDatacenterDowntimeCost.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Aberdeen Group found<\/a> in a 2012 report that downed data centers cost businesses on average $138,000 per hour.  The Compuware study puts the average cost of a single major technology failure at $10.8 million.<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><a title=\"Michael Allen bio\" href=\"uk.linkedin.com\/in\/mikedallen\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Allen<\/a>, director of APM for Compuware, <a title=\"Compuware quot on cost of technology failure\" href=\"http:\/\/news.idg.no\/cw\/art.cfm?id=5FBA8C6A-9010-9891-87A2CB9472F0449D\" target=\"_blank\">said that<\/a> &#8220;the figures really are eye watering &#8211; especially when you consider the fact that these are not isolated events. Many companies are fire-fighting problems on a daily or weekly basis, hemorrhaging money and damaging the long-term health of their organization.  Despite this, companies are still not taking performance management seriously, as shown by the fact that three quarters are failing to reduce the number of incidents that are occurring. 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