Application Management Advisory Services

In today's challenging economic environment, businesses have to balance the need to reduce costs in their application development and maintenance environments while, at the same time, increasing the value their application portfolio delivers to the business. Business growth and the ability to respond rapidly to a changing environment must be supported on a decreasing IT budget. IBM advisory services can help you identify the right strategy to increase the value of your organisation and the means to implement it.

Compares your application delivery function with similar businesses in your industry

Identifies ways to reduce application development and maintenance costs

Establishes a strategy of improvements aligned with your key business objectives

Provides a range of services to help implement your strategy of value improvement.

Defining a set of prioritised value improvement initiatives
Defining where you can cut costs without sacrificing business benefit is the first step. IBM assessment and planning services help you establish a value improvement strategy that is aligned with your business priorities. Based on this strategy, we assess your current system by reviewing many different aspects of your application development and maintenance environment. Then we help you to select and prioritise areas for improvement.

Comparing your capabilities against others in your industry
Do you know how well you perform relative to your competitors? IBM application development benchmark services provide an assessment of your application delivery function relative to best-of-breed and industry practices. Using proprietary baseline data compiled by IBM, we compare your application development and maintenance performance levels with that of comparable businesses in your industry, both locally and globally. We can then use this information as a measure to determine which functions you are performing well and where you will get most benefit from focusing your improvement efforts.