Managing an applications portfolio is often a difficult and complex undertaking. Businesses typically seek solutions that ensure compliance with audit procedures to help reduce costs and improve productivity. To address these issues, businesses want a concise roadmap that clearly identifies the necessary tools, processes and technologies to help them best manage their complex business structures.
CSC’s Enterprise Complexity Management (ECM) solution provides just that. ECM is a comprehensive, scalable and customized approach to the reduction of applications portfolio complexity. It provides you with a comprehensive understanding of your portfolio, a complexity reduction roadmap, the means to reduce complexity and a holistic way to manage the simplified portfolio. Most importantly, ECM gives you the ability to reallocate investment dollars to core, strategic initiatives. Benefits ECM goes beyond conceptualization. It is a proven, mature service that gains total control of the portfolio and increases performance, while redirecting investment dollars to provide market-differentiating services to your clients.
Enterprise Complexity Management allows:
Alignment of spending and strategic objectives in an integrated, business-driven roadmap
Reallocation of funding from maintenance activities to initiatives
Enhanced efficiency through simplification, rationalization and modernization of the portfolio
Increased business effectiveness through fewer "moving parts"
Rapid business change and speed-to-market through applications technique
In Brief: Case Studies
Centralization and simplification for a multinational European organization
In just 16 months, CSC enabled the implementation of a central purchasing organization, streamlined company reporting, improved cash management, simplified intracompany production processes, and increased visibility of stock levels. The implementation of a single IT system for all entities slashed operating costs. The activities allowed the client to cut costs, boost efficiency and position itself to compete globally.
Modernization for a large U.S. federal client
A large U.S. federal client was able to self-fund the modernization of its infrastructure and applications portfolio. The governance model enabled collaboration among retained IT, other mission/business providers and CSC. The client saw savings of more than 30 percent through elimination of redundancy and the streamlined Wintel environment for all IT users lowered user support calls by 20 percent.
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