Design-build-manage services

Many organizations are facing the pressure to adapt their business model in some way to changing market conditions. Whether it is entering new markets, improving your customer service levels or streamlining a supply chain, your organization relies on application development to architect and build, and application management to support and enable ongoing change and innovation. Many organizations approach application development and management with disparate rather than complementary approaches such as, with separate internal groups or external vendors focused on each stage of the application life cycle. Thus, developers often design and build applications with minimal consideration of how they will be managed on an ongoing basis, resulting in higher costs and risk, incremental management complexity and suboptimal service levels.

IBM Design-build-manage services combine industry specific development and systems integration capabilities with ongoing application support, maintenance and enhancement into an integrated, end-to-end process. By combining previously separate design-build-manage functions into one outsourced process, you can lower your applications’ total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase time-to-market.

Business challenges

• How can you design and build applications that are easier and less expensive to manage?
• How can you increase time-to-market of new services and functions without incurring a corresponding increase in risk?
• Are you looking to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of your applications?
• Are you looking to improve the alignment of your organization’s application portfolio with your evolving business requirements?

Design-build-manage services that we offer

• Holistic design-build approach that can increase time-to-market, reduce transition time from development to management, and lower cost of implementation and ownership.
• Custom built applications that utilize expertise in Web technology, supply chain management, CRM, branding and usability that utilize hard-to-find industry-experienced consulting and application management skills around the globe.
• Integration and expertise with leading packaged BI, ERP and CRM solutions that drive your business.

Why IBM

As one of the largest providers of consulting, systems integration and application services, IBM has unrivalled experience optimizing application investments and aligning them to business requirements. IBM Application Services' industry expertise, world–renowned research capabilities, and global footprint can help increase productivity, accelerate implementation cycles and empower growth for companies and organizations around the world.