Applications Management Services: Executive Overview
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Rising application maintenance costs are outpacing your information technology (IT) budget and reducing your ability to fund your core business activities. Day-to-day operational challenges consume much of your time and attention. Your applications portfolio lacks transparency, so your ability to effectively align your applications with your business objectives is limited.
To address these issues, remain competitive and meet changing business demands, you must have the right IT model in place. And that necessitates transforming your applications management so you can reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO) and focus on what made you successful in the first place. EDS can help make that transformation possible.
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One size does not fit all when it comes to addressing your applications needs. EDS' Applications Management Services assesses each application's priority and business impact and then tailors the management plan for that application accordingly. Through EDS' Manage for PerformanceTM approach, your application portfolio is aligned, transformed and continuously optimized in order to meet your evolving business needs.
Leveraging nearly a half century of outsourcing experience, EDS has helped many companies in many industries around the world increase the efficiency, effectiveness and agility of their applications by managing them. We can realign your applications, their performance and total cost of ownership by transforming your support organization and services. As a result, you'll maximize business value and reduce maintenance costs by 15 to 40 percent. You'll achieve this through:
- A flexible, scalable and transparent services-based operating model with measurable service performance linked to key business performance indicators
- Visibility into each application's performance, complexity, priority and business impact
- Predictive pricing and adjustable contracting
- High quality, low cost delivery systems that utilize globally consistent industry frameworks such as ITIL and CMMI; highly-trained and experienced professionals; and automation tools
- A real-world, stepped approach to transformation
As an added benefit you can choose to take advantage of EDS’ Designed for Run™ holistic approach to applications and infrastructure. Whether your sourcing strategy is to use one services provider or to multi-source, EDS manages your applications for performance. Continue your success; let us transform your enterprise into the agile and modernized environment it needs to be.
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EDS is behind the continued success of Molson Coors. Our Applications Management Services helped the brewer gain better control of its application decisions, reduce costs and risk, and return its focus to its core business.