Overview
Is your organisation having difficulty deriving more value from your application portfolio to support your business objectives? Attracting and retaining skilled IT professionals, shifting skills from project to project as business demands change, and the consistent requirements of managing risk and service levels all contribute to challenging even the most dynamic organisations. Additionally, mergers and acquisitions drive increasing levels of application complexity and often result in redundant and overlapping applications that consume excessive time and cost to manage.
IBM's Portfolio Outsourcing Services can unleash business value through the optimisation of your application portfolio; target initiatives that drive business value through the use of best practices; achieve IT cost savings; reduce risk and the required investments in application skills; or modernise your applications using repeatable services such as SOA.
Business challenges
How can you improve the speed to market of your organisation's products and services?
How can you more effectively integrate and leverage mergers and acquisitions?
How can you help support and drive business process change and flexibility?
What can your business do to reduce costs throughout the application development and management life cycle?
Portfolio outsourcing services that we offer:
Comprehensive application management capabilities that can reduce application management costs, and increase time-to-market and user productivity.
Legacy applications to optimise performance and lower cost from some of your most valuable applications that drive your business.
Packaged ERP and CRM solutions from SAP, Oracle and others that drive your business.
Why IBM
By combining IBM's broad understanding of how technology and key skills development can be used to facilitate your company's business process with our leadership position in application management and consulting services, IBM is in a prime position to create solutions that can unlock the value of enterprise application investments. We can enable businesses to become more efficient and effective and can help on the drive toward business growth through innovation. With our extensive industry expertise and global skills base, in-depth understanding of business processes and information technology, we are uniquely qualified to assist in returning focus on core business competencies instead of day-to-day management of existing applications.
IBM's industry expertise, global investment in application skills and leading modernisation and testing capabilities helps provide the foundation for leadership in application development and management. As one of the largest providers of consulting, systems integration and application services, IBM has unrivalled experience optimising application investments and aligning them to business requirements. IBM Application Services' industry expertise, world-renowned research capabilities, and global skills base of more than 90,000 professionals can help increase productivity, accelerate implementation cycles and empower growth for companies and organisations around the world.
