Hexaware’s APA will provide CIOs with a ROADMAP that can help them reduce application maintenance burdens and rationalize their application portfolios. Following are some of the drivers of the high application maintenance costs associated with the managing a complex Application landscape.

• Mergers & Acquisitions , specific systems for specific line / departmental functions leads to a situation whereby any application landscape becomes a complex web of home grown bespoke systems & packages (Mainframes, Client Server as well as web based applications)
• Data & functionality replicated in heterogenous applications
• Applications at different levels of Technology adequacy
• Complex & often proprietary EAI solutions to ‘connect up’ these disparate systems
• In a recent survey by Foresters 80% of IT budget are taken away by maintaining existing applications leaving a paltry 20% for newer initiatives.
• Paucity of Legacy skills like IMS, PLI, Assembler
• Aging of Baby boomers (Cobol programmers)
• Dependence on a few key resources including contractors
• Poor compliance to SLAs, quality parameters
• Waning application knowledge

For the all the reasons cited above, IT is not perceived as an ‘enabler’ of business but more as a bottleneck

Hexaware has the track record of maintaining mission critical applications for many Fortune 500 companies like CitiBank, AXA Group, Duestche Leasing, Air Canada, to name a few

Application Portfolio Analysis recommendations

Following are the advantages to outsoucing your routine Mainframe maintenance activities to Hexaware, freeing up your key resources for strategic initiatives.

• Recommend for each application
  • Retain
  • Retire
  • Modernize
  • Replace with a package solution
  • Which modernization approach to pursue (Web Enable, Integrate Legacy with New Technology, Re Host or Rip & Rewrite)
• Provide a IT Road Map
  • To achieve rationalisation & modernisation of application landscape
  • Position applications for the ‘Future’ agile Service oriented Architecture