Outsourcing

Business Benefits

Enhance efficiencies, flexibility, and governance for application outsourcing.

Many companies have responded to inflexibility and higher application maintenance costs by leveraging outsourcing providers. Flexibility is enhanced by freeing organizations' scarce resources to focus on other business priorities. It is also is improved by tasking the outsourcing provider with modernization activities that yield more agile operations. Costs are reduced through the outsourcer's vast economies of scale and the quantity and quality of resources they can dedicate to application maintenance and modernization activities.

However, it is important that your organization relies on an outsourcer that automates application maintenance and application modernization initiatives. Doing so drives cost savings, increases the adaptability of your legacy application portfolio, and ensures that your organization continues to govern its mission-critical applications. Regardless of whether the applications were developed in Cobol, Natural, RPG, Visual Basic, C/C++, Java, or other languages.

Relativity Technologies can help. Our Modernization Workbench® platform is the preferred Enterprise Application Modernization solution for six of the ten largest outsourcers. It delivers value in the outsourcing process through:

Application Knowledge Transfer

A recent analyst study revealed that less knowledgeable staff were up to 40% less efficient than their peers. When applications are frequently transitioned between teams, these costs can quickly add up. But more than costs, reduced insights into transferred applications can lead to more risky changes and increased frequency of rework due to inexperience with the targeted systems. This can be especially challenging in an outsourced setting. The Modernization Workbench has been shown to speed knowledge transfer by producing rich, complete documentation in 70% less time than manual approaches.

Reduced Application Maintenance Costs

The majority of the world's top outsourcers prefer the Modernization Workbench as their solution for application maintenance and application modernization initiatives. These technically rigorous companies selected the Modernization Workbench because its application analysis and understanding capabilities accelerate the execution of change requests by more than 50%. The Modernization Workbench also enables outsourcing partners to speed the delivery of high-value modernization activities, including SOA enablement, business process management, application modeling, and more.

Application Portfolio Management

The Modernization Workbench generates a detailed repository of business-level and technical insight into the application portfolio. This repository can be regularly refreshed to optimize application portfolio management. Managers can rely on the repository for metrics that enable management to service level agreements. For instance, users can automatically generate, trend, and share accurate function point counts based on the reality of managed applications. Analysts can also use the repository to generate detailed functional specifications that ease communication challenges and reduce the need for rework. It also provides analysts with mission-critical information about their legacy applications, further reducing risks associated with outsourcing.