IBM Application Management Services

IBM Application Utility Services allow you to:

• Reduce costs by paying for applications usage and management as a service, rather than investing in assets and new personnel
  
• Gain the flexibility to embrace innovation as it emerges
  
• Free your IT environment for the development of new solutions and initiatives
  

• Have access to skilled resources without having to hire, train and retain staff
  
• Predict and reduce operating and support costs while efficiently maintaining and operating packaged applications
  
• Operate a stable application environment and implement processes with comprehensive services from a single source
  

• Unlock core business application components by reusing proven, time-tested applications that can significantly lower risk, cost and time to market;
  
• Lower support costs by reducing duplicate application components and information;
  
• Simplify technology profile, reducing integration complexity and resolving maintenance hotspots to establish a more agile application portfolio;
  
• Leverage SOA technology to enable the flexible reuse and connectivity of core application assets and information across the enterprise.