Overview
Monolithic electronics manufacturing is over and has been replaced by an environment in which networks of designers, manufacturers and fabricators need to collaborate seamlessly in a globally integrated approach. A typical consumer electronics product can contain components and design elements that have been sourced from over 20 countries. To meet the challenges, electronics companies must develop business processes that are every bit as dynamic and responsive as the products on your assembly line.
The electronics industry is facing immense cost pressures, continuously compressed product life cycles and business models that need to rapidly evolve. And the need for better customer insight is growing in the face of fierce competition. These are key drivers that determine the need to continually innovate for excellence in the electronics industry.
IBM Application Services addresses the demands of the electronics industry through specialized skills, technology and tools that can increase IT's responsiveness to business needs and drive standardized global business processes that are required for enhanced competitiveness.
Business challenges
- Integrate and adapt existing systems to support new forms of vital partnerships.
- Improve the flexibility of the application portfolio and its ability to quickly adopt new approaches to production.
- Free up internal resources for new projects rather than maintaining existing applications.
- Reduce the time it takes to bring a product to market by ensuring that existing processes and applications are adaptable.
- Implement a flexible architecture to more quickly adapt to changing business requirements.
- Enhance quality, reduce development costs and risks through improved test processes and procedures.
- Improve ability to develop a single view of the customer to understand future demands.
Application services that we offer
- Application Out-Tasking (US) – Ongoing management of and support for your packaged and custom applications that drive your manufacturing, including SAP and Oracle.
- Business Application Modernization (US) – Modernize your existing application portfolio to reduce costs and enhance business responsiveness.
- Design-Build-Manage (US) – IBM designs, builds and provides ongoing management for a targeted set of applications to reduce total cost of ownership and provide faster time-to-market through optimizing development to ensure maximum value through IBM’s globally integrated application management approach.
- IBM Testing Services (US) - The IBM Total Test Quality™ approach involves combining IBM's global testing services with comprehensive automation from IBM software, along with cutting-edge innovation from IBM research, to help reduce the life cycle development schedule and cost while improving overall quality.
- Portals and Content Management (US) - Automate information management and aggregrate application capabilities to drive greater collaboration, efficiency and responsiveness.
- Security and Privacy (US) - Decrease overhead costs and ensure consistent policy enforcement and compliance with standards and regulations.
Why IBM
IBM's industry expertise and global investment in technology skills provide a foundation for leadership in application design, development, implementation, integration and management. Our in-depth understanding of business processes and information technology uniquely qualifies us to work with clients who wish to take advantage of industry best practices in application lifecycle management in order for them to focus on their core businesses.
As a leading global provider of consulting, systems integration and application services, IBM has unrivaled experience optimizing application investments and aligning them to business requirements. Our team of more than 90,000 Application Services consultants located around the world can assemble industry and technology expertise and utilize proven methodology, research innovation, and technology accelerators to help you reduce cost and risk while improving business value from applications.
