Information Technology management is increasingly turn to application management
to stem the flow of money into its largest financial sinkhole — the expense to maintain
its existing application portfolio. Enterprises have significant investments in
IT assets to execute their business and derive appropriate returns. These investments
are made over a period and spread across the technology spectrum; spanning from
legacy platforms to client-server system to more contemporary multi-tier browser
based systems. Early application management practitioners report 10% to 30% reductions
in maintenance costs and returns on project investments within 12 months.
KHABEER helps software providers meet the challenge of ongoing
product support and maintenance with a range of services designed to substantially
lower their maintenance costs and ensure timely response and guaranteed service
levels.
Our application management services encompass such activities
as:
- Application maintenance
- Error tracking and debugging
- Version upgrades
- Version enhancements
- Comprehensive user support
- Helpdesk support
- Technical troubleshooting
- Performance monitoring
- Performance testing
- Quality assurance testing
- Documentation development and maintenance
KHABEER's application management outsourcing services are backed
by a decade of experience, mature processes, and robust delivery systems. More important
is our commitment to go beyond service level agreements and deliver consistent and
lasting value.
We do this by building long-term partnerships with our customers. KHABEER
is a flexible organization and can tailor the engagement model to suit a client’s
specific needs. Our offshore transition methodologies speed up knowledge transfer
and ensure that clients can reap the benefits of sending applications offshore as
soon as possible.
Application Management Methodology
KHABEER follows a 4-step application management methodology for
cost optimizing maintenance of applications. In step 1, we analyze and assess applications
to adequately plan for effective application management. In step 2, we actively
shadow the client-side environment and determine detailed SLAs. In step 3, we effectively
minimize operational risks through application management takeover and finally in
step 4, we monitor and regularly report on the stability and performance of the
application(s) under management.
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Through strong knowledge transfer processes, we thoroughly document applications
and build up a knowledge base that is often better organized than what clients previously
had.
And we work quickly. Thanks to our strong knowledge transfer and change management
core competencies, clients can start seeing savings within 4 - 6 weeks, as we mobilize
high offshore staffing ratios to maximize savings. We have been able to reach 50
FTE offshore staffing levels in as little as 1 – 1.5 months, and our 24x7 sourcing
capabilities ensure high resource ramp up for onsite, offshore and near-shore projects.
Once we have made the transition, our governance process ensures that we keep meeting
our promises to clients. We constantly measure our performance, using firm documented
metrics, to show how well we are meeting our quality, service level, and cost targets
- and then use this process as a tool for continuous improvement.
Partnering with KHABEER for application management services
enable clients to:
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- Improve stability and efficiency of mission-critical applications
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- Refocus their energies on strategic initiatives by handing over the maintenance
and enhancement of business applications to a trusted and reliable partner
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- Improve quality of service
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- Keep their applications in line with the latest technologies
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- Migrate to new and emerging technologies
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- Reduce total cost of ownership
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KHABEER can grow with clients’ needs. Because we specialize in
highly complex long-term engagements, we are experts at managing efforts involving
multiple systems, spanning multiple teams, multiple locations, and client organizations.
Having made application management as a core competency through dedicated practice
groups, we know how to manage and optimize situations where multiple teams are interdependent.
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