Application Management

The last decade has seen unprecedented use of technology by all industries as a business enabler. As a result, currently, most organizations spend a significant portion of their IT budgets in maintaining legacy applications or managing multiple applications delivering similar functionalities. Besides this, application failures, downtime, or performance issues have far- reaching repercussions including diminished business performance, significant financial losses, reduced competitiveness, and lowered customer satisfaction. Global enterprises can unlock hundreds of thousands of dollars each year through effective application management, making it a critical business imperative.

Advansys is a recognized global leader in applications management, with a proven track record of consistent and innovative delivery.

Over time we have built up a wealth of methods, tools and accelerators:

Integrated Service Management, ranging from strategy and operation to continual improvement
A strong governance model, establishing processes, organizational structures, and decision-making mechanisms to enable effective implementation of your IT strategy
A world-class transition model, ensuring service continuity and minimum impact on your business
A global network of Applications Management Service Centers, providing continuous and seamless support through onshore, offshore and nearshore resources

Advansys's comprehensive application management services comprise:

Application Maintenance:Advansys's expertise lies in addressing the customer needs by designing custom solutions that are self-funding and sustainable over a long period of time. Our 'Transform while you Maintain' philosophy not only reduces the TCO but also improves the maturity of the IT organization by delivering more business value.

Our value proposition:

We adopt several best practices to achieve process excellence in the delivery of maintenance projects including equipping resources with cross functional skills to support complex and tiered applications.
In order to enhance service delivery capabilities and meet stringent compliance and SLA requirements, Advansys has made steady investments in developing tools, methodologies and frameworks that can reduce costs, cut turnaround time, and improve overall efficiency.
We ensure measurable outcomes through metrics and dashboards that can assess return-on-investment (RoI), and cost reduction.
Our innovative pricing mechanism ensures that our clients only pay for the services they use.
Application Portfolio Rationalization: Leveraging over years of experience in developing and maintaining enterprise applications, Advansys has developed an approach to assess an organization's application portfolio and recommend transformational strategies that can enhance efficiencies. The approach involves Discovery, Analysis and Recommendation phases focused on understanding and transforming the application portfolio aided by homegrown toolsets and frameworks.

Advansys's APR service is a definite first step to expose hidden inefficiencies and improve the application portfolio. It helps organizations:

Identify, categorize and rationalize their application portfolio
Optimize application value and ensure short-term and long-term gains
Develop a strategic roadmap in sync with business requirements.

Advansys's APR Consulting Services involves assessment of the application portfolio and providing recommendations on:

Application retention
Technical extensions
Functional extensions
Migration options
Legacy Modernization:Advansys provides enhanced flexibility to organizations looking towards modernizing/migrating their legacy systems and applications by using a combination of proprietary methodologies, accelerators, customized tools, processes, and industry practices, that help reduce complexities and costs involved in modernizing legacy systems. Based on an organization's specific needs and requirements, Advansys classifies its Legacy Modernization offerings into three categories namely: Optimization, Modernization and Transformation services.

Advansys works closely with you to maintain, adapt and develop your applications in order to minimize cost and maximize quality and flexibility.

Applications management enables you to:

Gain significant reduction in IT operating expenses
Maximize return on investment by improving the performance of your application portfolio
Provide business efficiency and continuity by ensuring system and data availability, performance, functionality and integrity
Flex up or down as your business strategy and needs change
Improve user satisfaction

Many companies lack the resources to cover all competencies along the application lifecycle. With on-demand access to Advansys's skilled specialists, you can leave your application management queries to us and focus on your core competencies. Our Application Skills on Demand is a single professional services contract that provides access to our project managers, business analysts, application technicians and other application management specialists. We are committed to your success. We build commercial and contractual incentives into each client engagement to demonstrate our commitment to ensuring your application estate is aligned with your business objectives.