Application Management and Hosting

Whichever industry you are in it is likely you are fighting to remain productive and competitive in an environment dictated by change, uncertainty and almost daily technological advancements. Your applications are a key weapon in that fight. They can have significant and far-reaching implications for your business in terms of conserving costs, heightening productivity, raising service levels and replenishing revenue streams. When approached and managed as a core asset, your applications can vastly improve how you utilise information, anticipate and react to change, communicate and collaborate and face the competition.

We deliver innovation and business value through end-to-end services for the development, integration and on-going management and enhancement of our clients' applications portfolios. We can help you to:

• Align your IT investment more closely with your business priorities.
• Conserve capital by converting fixed costs to variable costs, maximizing efficiency of resources and heightening productivity.
• Increase business flexibility and speed of response to market challenges.
• Improve integration and collaboration across your value-net.

Wherever you are in the application lifecycle we have services to help you get the most from your applications. Our development, integration, support, management and enhancement services can be contracted individually or built into a single, cohesive offering to suit your business requirements. The choice is yours.

IBM Application Services

Our goal is to help you achieve maximum business value from your application investments.

We offer:

• Solutions for growth and innovation e.g. Service-Oriented Architecture, Web Services, system renovation and integration.
• Opportunities for optimization e.g. application portfolio management, application benchmarking.
• Flexible, integrated delivery models leveraging the global talent and intellectual capital of IBM to allow you to benefit from our range of skills and capabilities in multiple geographies.
• Customised, flexible contracting to produce the deal that is right for you.
• Proven methodologies, tools and processes that increase productivity and cut risk.
• Global Business and industry expertise that afford thought leadership and strategic value.
• Commitment and experience in servicing AS clients with quality and high satisfaction for over a decade.