Complex system environments as well as the adoption of new technology is becoming increasingly difficult for organisations to manage and maintain. These systems require the availability of new skills, at the right place and the right time to keep them operational. This system complexity is compounded by hyper-dynamic market forces. Customer engagement is occurring in real-time, using technology environments that require new levels of availability. Competitors are increasingly global with the speed to market of their products and services. Regulatory and security requirements around data require an unprecedented amount of governance. IBM can work with you to harness the opportunity that hyper-dynamism brings. Our Application Management services range from smarter application development, management and maintenance through to sophisticated analysis and optimisation of your application environment. We can help by decreasing the time-to-value of your applications, freeing up resources to invest in new projects and allowing you to maximise the life long value of your investment.
IBM Accelerators
Wondering where to start? Or how to go faster? IBM can help your organisation transform its application management capabilities through short engagements that deliver immediate value.
Application Portfolio Assessment
Are you looking to increase the synergy and performance of your Application Portfolio while reducing maintenance costs? IBM can assess your application portfolio and provide a roadmap that will guide future application investments. The assessment will prioritise applications based on their ability to meet business needs, allowing your organisation to identify and support valuable applications, consolidate multiple applications and retire applications of little value.
Application Testing, Assessment and Strategy Accelerator
Our application management capabilities can be engaged to assess the maturity of your test environment against industry standards. The engagement identifies potential areas of improvement to the test process and focuses on development of business justification for future investment including innovation to reduce business risk, life cycle development schedules and cost, while drastically improving overall service quality.
Application Management services
Accelerate responsiveness to business needs through innovative global delivery
Apply a patented method of process automation and standardiasation for application development, enhancements, testing and maintenance.
Realise New Levels of Agility through Modernisation
Mitigate the risk involved in modernising critical and often complex applications.
Next Generation Testing Drives Transformation
Evolve your testing strategy to adopt a total quality approach.
Improve agility and time-to-value in your application development and maintenance
Unlock business value by optimising your application portfolio and aligning it to business priorities.
IBM C-Suite Studies
2012 IBM Global CEO Study
Over 1700 interviews with CEO's from across the globe. Find out what they see as their biggest challenges.
2011 IBM Global CMO Study
Over 1,700 face-to-face interviews with CMOs! Find out what's on the minds of today's Chief Marketing Officers.
2011 IBM Global CIO Study
The Essential CIO
2010 Global Chief Executive Officer Study
"Capitalising on Complexity"
2010 Global Chief Financial Officer Study
"The New Value Integrator"
2009 Global Chief Supply Chain Officer Study
"The Smarter Supply Chain"
Client success
SBI Sumishin Net Bank focuses on customers with help from IBM Application Services
Japan's first full Internet bank shortens time-to-market and improves efficiency.
IBM Application Services gets things moving for Stockholm
Swedish Road Administration crosses barriers with best-of-breed technology.
IBM Application Services helps transform IT for Norwich Union
New IT model reduces costs and increases productivity.
IBM Application Services delivers e-procurement solution for CSI Piemont
Italian regional government reduces purchasing time and costs.
International Truck drives growth and business value with an optimised IT strategy.
