Offerings
Applications Management and World Sourcing Centers
As global competition squeezes margins and profits, Chemical and Energy firms are looking to consolidate and leverage their applications portfolios to manage them in the most cost-effective manner possible. Many firms are looking for opportunities to outsource the management of their applications to low-cost applications centers around the world.
But how do you reduce application maintenance costs without disrupting business performance? What processes should you follow to identify opportunities to consolidate applications and leverage resources across your organization? What are the ramifications of moving applications work to low-cost centers around the world, and what is the best methodology for achieving such a move? And how do you successfully capture and maintain applications knowledge, which is essential to your continued success?
A Tailored Solution
CSC offers an applications management solution that is tailored to the unique needs of our Chemical and Energy clients. Our world-class processes, global expertise in application development and extensive experience supporting applications within the Chemical and Energy industries will result in a solution that achieves your business goals.
Our solution features our World Sourcing Centers, which deliver application services from the optimal combination of on-site, regional, near-shore and offshore locations. Our World Sourcing Centers operate in Canada, Ireland, South Africa, India, Malaysia, Spain and other strategic locations.
Flexibility, Consistency Drive Cost-Effectivness
Our broad geographic reach gives our clients tremendous flexibility in terms of capacity planning and staffing. Because each location is centrally managed as part of our global delivery model – and because each follows the same repeatable methods, tools and measurements – our multinational clients enjoy a consistent solution, regardless of which locations maintain their applications.
The result: Chemical and energy firms can rely on CSC to cost-effectively deliver consistent applications management solutions, so that they can better focus on their core business functions.
Key Features
- The Balanced Scorecard: Measuring for Success
- Building Breakthrough Applications Solutions
- Applications Outsourcing
- Applications Portfolio Effectiveness Review (APER)
- Applications Excellence (APEX)
- World Sourcing Centers
CSC's Approach
Using CSC’s proven Global Transformation Solutions (GTS) methodology, we guide our Chemical and Energy clients through a rigorous process to analyze the current cost-benefit status of your applications strategy, realign applications with your business objectives, streamline and consolidate applications portfolios, and, where feasible, to relocate applications to support to our World Sourcing Centers. A key component of our methodology ensures that you capture and maintain applications knowledge, which is essential to continued success.
CSC is a strong champion of the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI) renowned Capability Maturity Model (CMM), with a deep commitment to continuous process improvement. We are a charter member of the SEI, using SEI CMM-compliant processes to bring rigor and discipline to your application processes.
As a result of our rigorous, disciplined approach, combined with our World Sourcing Centers, we’ll deliver dramatic cost reductions while improving applications stability and performance.
Related Information
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