Application Outsourcing Services

Increasingly complex system environments and adoption of rapidly changing technology can make it difficult and expensive to manage and maintain applications that support business needs. Resources that have the relevant application and data integration expertise can be difficult to obtain adding strain on core staff and increasing risks in the quality and speed of releases. Budget constraints may limit the ability to maintain an IT platform that accommodates agile business change and provides the life cycle intelligence that helps teams react more quickly and efficiently. Through IBM’s globally integrated capabilities and Application Assembly Optimization model, we address the challenges of today’s IT organization by helping unlock the business value of more agile, analytics-based application management services.

Application Outsourcing Solutions and Capabilities

Application Outsourcing assumes the management of all or part of our clients’ application portfolio and portions of infrastructure to enable focus on core strategic business competencies. IBM applies its deep business and technology skills, leading innovation and world-class business processes to streamline application management functions, improve governance, and modernize application portfolios in support of future business needs and strategic shifts, all while reducing costs. Capabilities include:

• End-to-end application management capabilities in concert with infrastructure outsourcing that can help reduce overall application management costs
• The Smarter ADM framework which applies collaborative technologies and agile development to drive significant improvements in time-to-value
• Application enhancements and modernization activities that increase time-to-market and enhance user productivity
• Full support for existing package enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, including SAP and Oracle, as well as for Business Analytics Optimization (BAO) and Smarter Commerce solutions that help optimize performance and lower the cost of your most valuable business-driven applications
• A range of service models including Full Managed Services, Portfolio Outsourcing, Co-Management, and Staff Augmentation

Getting started with Application Outsourcing

Clients today are still understandably cautious in their investments and maniacally focused on tangible business outcomes.IBM provides our clients with creative Application Outsourcing solutions that clearly identify areas for improved business value, quantify the expected returns, and accelerate results.

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Application Outsourcing Forward Thinkers

Client success

• SBI Sumishin Net Bank focuses on customers with help from IBM Application Services
• IBM Application Services gets things moving for Stockholm
• IBM Application Services delivers e-procurement solution for CSI Piemont
• International Truck drives growth and business value with an optimized IT strategy
• Rijkswaterstaat reduces cost with AMS Transition and Transformation skills
• Deutsche Bank AG banks on IBM AMS to offer new customer services
• AMS helps British Airways fly high with a self check-in solution

Thought leadership

• The Software Edge - How effective software development and delivery drives competitive advantage
• Small worlds: The social approach to software delivery (1MB)
• Working in the open: Accelerating time to value in application development and management (4MB)
• Read more Thought Leadership papers

Why IBM

As one of the largest providers of consulting, systems integration and application management services, IBM has unrivaled experience optimizing application investments and aligning them to business requirements.

IBM Application Management Services' industry expertise, world-renowned research capabilities, and global footprint can help increase productivity, accelerate implementation cycles, and enable growth for companies and organizations around the world.