Application maintenance outsourcing (AMO) is an important part of application outsourcing. With AMO, you can outsource all the maintenance activities, such as enhancements, corrections and patch developments. Image credit: Flickr You can get the resources that you need for the maintenance phase of your project on a contract basis. These resources include the manpower with the required technical skills, technology and other required resources. Application development and maintenance form about 80% of the total work that is outsourced. The number of outsourcing companies is also increasing due to the huge demand. Thus, let’s take a look at the several pros and cons it comes with. Pros of AMO AMO is a cost-effective solution and improves your operations and technology well. Here are some benefits of AMO: Cost and time saving It lets you have more time to develop the app and for other operations. It lets you concentrate on the core business. It makes use of external expertise. Gives you access to industry experts without paying a big compensation as you would for a normal employee. Allows your work to be flexible. Gives you access to talented IT professionals, better tools, equipment, and technology. Improves the performance, productivity, and customer satisfaction. It allows work to be continued in different time zones. Enables you to go without a payroll system. Nullifies the worry about losing key employees. Cons of...
By the end of 2015, the U.K IT and Services market is expected to be worth £43 billion. SaaS model will play a pivotal role in this mammoth growth Traditional on-premise applications are passé. We have been in the industry for quite a few years and never before has the gap between SaaS and other software delivery models been so wide. Companies that are looking to increase security and drive in productivity aiming to get access to enterprise grade applications. From helping employees collaborate better with the help of Cloud to coming out with applications to interact with customers, these apps can help increase efficiency and better sales targets. Having delivered many SaaS and B2B apps in the recent past ourselves, we know that it’s an exciting world out there. Predicting the trends So, what does 2015 have in store for us? Going by the current trends, we will see a lot more of Software-as-a-Service this year. Some of the major trends are visible. For instance, since last year there is a growing demand for vertical SaaS, or solutions to particular industries that mainly include healthcare and financial services. This goes against the traditional norm of growth of horizontal SaaS that were mainly solutions used by sales and HR. The ACG report corroborates this. The report also states how SaaS models are targeting individual users to form enterprise-wide deals. Here is what happens – SaaS vendors woo in a few employees with what they offer. This in turn leads to potential enterprise deals as employees understand how productivity is affected. The tactic, similar to the freemium model, will see...
Cloud Computing and SaaS are the latest buzz words in the IT industry these day. Businesses today are migrating their legacy applications to the Cloud, mostly as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). The reason being, Cloud Computing offers convenient on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources including networks, applications, services, storage, servers, etc. These computing resources can then be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management efforts. There are many other benefits of cloud computing: Cloud Computing offers a broader network access. This means that you can access anything at anytime from anywhere. It helps you in achieving economies of scale. Your output is more with lesser people. You don’t have to spend huge bucks on technological infrastructure where you have everything that you need on the cloud. It helps in streamlining processes which ultimately lets to get more work in lesser time and people. With a cloud supported set up, it takes fewer people to do more work. So, there is less personal training required. Despite all the benefits, the decision to migrate your legacy application to the cloud should not be taken lightly. Your decision should be based on a deep thought given to your business requirements. Remember, it is more about applying the correct strategy for the right application and least about the benefits offered by cloud computing. A business must consider answering the following questions before deciding to migrate their legacy applications to the cloud: Why should I make the move to cloud? The answers are simple. You should move your application to the cloud when you need to change the architecture of the...
