Application Lifecycle Management: Maximize Value and Minimize Costs
As technology evolves from IT enabler to business transformer, systems and applications must adapt to constant shifts in market conditions, processes, new tools, technologies, and regulations. To incorporate these efficiently, your IT assets must be managed to continuously identify and implement improvements and innovations, while maximizing output and minimizing downtime.
Xoriant engineers have decades of lifecycle management experience and delivery excellence across multiple compute models, including host-based systems, client-server environments, web multi-tier architectures, and the latest mobile and cloud paradigms.
Key Service Areas
Key Service Areas
Application Assessment
and Audit
These are a family of packaged and customized services for evaluating different enterprise business applications.
Each application is audited against a series of benchmarks and criteria, with both the results and recommendations for solving the identified issues delivered in a detailed written report. Audits cover three areas: Architecture, Security, and Performance. Considering the rapid evolution of modern applications, these audits help prevent serious performance and interoperability issues in production.
Application Support
and Maintenance
This proven methodology for application maintenance includes technical and functional support for existing applications, as well as ongoing enhancements.
The Xoriant support process encompasses incident logging and documentation, incident investigation, troubleshooting, and resolution, including the value, add of knowledgebase advisories to reduce incident re-occurrence. These services enhance application stability, functionality, and work processes while reducing support costs and total-cost-of-ownership (TCO).
System
Migration
IT leaders will be focusing on application/system migration to improve access and performance or enable interoperability with newer applications.
What makes this challenging is that many apps contain data or have co-dependencies that require modifications to run in different environments. Our Xoriant migration services can help these leaders evaluate the viability of migration and the type and scope of modifications required to reduce risks and costs related to new architectures, languages and databases, and new operating environments, including cloud IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS platforms.
Application
Enhancements
The life of an application can be extended and the value greatly increased throughout its operational lifetime. Xoriant can analyze, suggest, and implement improvements that cover technology, business functionality, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency. Upon approval of the Request for Change (RFC), application enhancements are tactically broken down into:
- Functional improvements
- Regulatory changes
Performance
Tuning
Xoriant’s application performance tuning services include cover all the essential areas:
- Application baseline performance analysis
- Application performance testing and evaluation
- Server consolidation and virtualization analysis
- Troubleshooting and root cause analysis
- Performance monitoring, alerting, trending, and analysis
- Cloud readiness performance assessment
- Datacenter consolidation strategy
Security Analysis, Enhancement
and Testing
Our comprehensive application security service covers reviews, assessments, enhancements, and maintenance of business security requirements, software development best practices, operational security frameworks. Our security review and enhancement process repeat the following on a continuous basis:
- Feature identification
- Vulnerabilities assessment and prioritization
- Planning, analysis, and execution
- Bug fixes
Application Assessment
and Audit
These are a family of packaged and customized services for evaluating different enterprise business applications.
Each application is audited against a series of benchmarks and criteria, with both the results and recommendations for solving the identified issues delivered in a detailed written report. Audits cover three areas: Architecture, Security, and Performance. Considering the rapid evolution of modern applications, these audits help prevent serious performance and interoperability issues in production.
Application Support
and Maintenance
This proven methodology for application maintenance includes technical and functional support for existing applications, as well as ongoing enhancements.
The Xoriant support process encompasses incident logging and documentation, incident investigation, troubleshooting, and resolution, including the value, add of knowledgebase advisories to reduce incident re-occurrence. These services enhance application stability, functionality, and work processes while reducing support costs and total-cost-of-ownership (TCO).
System
Migration
IT leaders will be focusing on application/system migration to improve access and performance or enable interoperability with newer applications.
What makes this challenging is that many apps contain data or have co-dependencies that require modifications to run in different environments. Our Xoriant migration services can help these leaders evaluate the viability of migration and the type and scope of modifications required to reduce risks and costs related to new architectures, languages and databases, and new operating environments, including cloud IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS platforms.
Application
Enhancements
The life of an application can be extended and the value greatly increased throughout its operational lifetime. Xoriant can analyze, suggest, and implement improvements that cover technology, business functionality, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency. Upon approval of the Request for Change (RFC), application enhancements are tactically broken down into:
- Functional improvements
- Regulatory changes
Performance
Tuning
Xoriant’s application performance tuning services include cover all the essential areas:
- Application baseline performance analysis
- Application performance testing and evaluation
- Server consolidation and virtualization analysis
- Troubleshooting and root cause analysis
- Performance monitoring, alerting, trending, and analysis
- Cloud readiness performance assessment
- Datacenter consolidation strategy
Security Analysis, Enhancement
and Testing
Our comprehensive application security service covers reviews, assessments, enhancements, and maintenance of business security requirements, software development best practices, operational security frameworks. Our security review and enhancement process repeat the following on a continuous basis:
- Feature identification
- Vulnerabilities assessment and prioritization
- Planning, analysis, and execution
- Bug fixes
"We work with our clients to develop the most cost-effective, efficient solutions to every issue, regardless of size. Lifecycle management of applications and systems requires a deep understanding of the entire continuum of technologies and development environments that comprise the myriad of legacy, hosted, proprietary, and cloud systems in use today."
ALM Extends Software Lifecycle
Document how workloads and applications achieve your organization’s objectives and which parts of your current system will be needed in the future. Don’t risk missing key requirements in your modernization plan.
Need for greater efficiency and increased productivity.
Rapid Uptake of Mobile Devices
Activities include planning and tracking work, designing code, implementing, managing source code repository. In addition to continuous integration, running builds, testing, running various diagnostic forms in development and production areas, and monitoring the application performance and user behavior in real-time.
Developing multi-platform apps involve tedious activities besides writing code.
Economy of Scale and Cloud
ALM solutions increase business agility and operational efficiency by creating and enforcing standards across all related project stages, including the allocation of human and technological resources.
Source: Transparency Market Research
Cloud-based ALM solutions are expected to grow with a CAGR of 8.7%.
SDLC Infrastructures
Wide variations in software standards have led to increased adoption of ALM solutions among IT and telecom end-users, with cloud-based ALM solutions leading the way. This is due to the benefits such as low upfront costs, hosting without infrastructure investments and increased scalability.
Source: Transparency Market Research
ALM is projected to expand at a CAGR of 10.2% from 2019 to 2027.
