Overview
What are a few of the challenges that many global organizations are facing when it comes to IT talent? A constant struggle to retain and train application experts and a lack of required skills when and where they are needed.
With applications supporting and often transforming business processes, ensuring that those applications are managed effectively and continually is critical. Obtaining hard-to-find IT skilled professionals who can deliver quality application development and management with minimal training is a challenge facing businesses around the world. While some organizations are comfortable having a third-party manage part of, or their entire entire application environment, many seek to augment their in-house skills with external IT talent who can work under their direction and guidance. Many IT organizations today seek both the flexibility to obtain resources when and where needed and the ability to “gear up” for projects that require specialized application skills that don’t exist or can’t be leveraged internally.
Staff augmentation can help you achieve a number of business goals including faster speed-to-market, industry and technical experience that accelerates the quality and speed of development, and avoiding the cost and time required for internal training and skill development.
IBM Staff Augmentation services provide skilled personnel to work under your direction to help you develop, maintain, manage and support your applications. Our skilled application professionals can help you manage fluctuating skill needs, skills gaps and changing staffing needs to meet your aggressive project timelines. IBM resources work with you on-site or remote, and are certified in key technologies from IBM's multiple global delivery centers worldwide.
Business challenges
How can you lower the cost of hard-to-find IT skills and take advantage of globally competitive rates?
Is your goal to be able to access IT skills when and where needed on a changing and flexible basis?
How do you access leading IT skills without an investment in training?
What can your organization do to ensure that IT staff are trained in the latest methodologies that drive quality and speed in development and management?
Staff augmentation technology offerings:
Major databases, including both IBM and third-party
Enterprise applications
Packaged applications from IBM and leading ISVs
Legacy languages
Mainframe transaction processing
Middleware and groupware
SOA and modernization capabilities
Major operating systems
Web technologies
Testing tools and services
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.
