High Targets and Low Budgets Create Blind Spots in Application Maintenance Strategy

New York, NY, January 21, 2016 --(PR.com)-- Believed to be a phase of lesser importance in the life-cycle of software development, the maintenance of software applications is a task easier said than done. As we all know, keeping a system operational and meeting user needs requires intensive know-how along with around-the-clock surveillance. Especially at a time when the IT industry has to achieve business targets on rapidly shrinking budgets. At this point, it becomes crucial for organizations to devise an application support and maintenance strategy to avoid overspending, underperformance, and avoid budgetary blind spots.

Industry experts believe that IT companies must view the role of maintenance as more than just defect analysis, troubleshooting, and bug fixing. They are of the opinion that a greater importance should be placed on preventative and perfective maintenance.

As we all know, unexpected downtime is unacceptable for today’s non-stop consumer. In this case, performing preventive or adaptive maintenance in the anticipation of change within the data environments, as well as, conducting perfective maintenance to get rid of inefficiencies, improve performance and enhance overall maintainability becomes a priority.

Considering the complex application environments of our time, companies need experienced IT support for software application maintenance. Keeping the current budget constraints in mind, it may be of some value to consider offshore destinations which offer great talent pools and cost advantages. Also, outsourcing these non-core operations to vendors in strategic locations may help improve overall efficiency.

The 2014 A.T. Kearney Global Services Location Index, which ranks countries based on financial attractiveness, people skills and availability and business environment, places India on the top of its list. The report clearly states, ‘In addition to a continually evolving service portfolio within their core business, leading IT services firms are expanding their traditional offerings to include R&D, product development, and other niche services, drawing on their extensive experience and highly skilled workforces.’ With the finest software programmers, and the highest number of CMM Level 5 certified companies, India is home to several leading software development and maintenance companies.

It has been reported that leading companies like BluEnt have increased their outsourcing capability by 10% this quarter, with their recent launch of affordable software application maintenance service packages. Customized for both large and medium sized companies, these new packages have been designed for to include both preventive and perfective software application maintenance at competitive rates for the international market.

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