Operations & Life Cycle Management

Netspective helps organizations to adopt a holistic approach to their IT assets, enabling them to efficiently implement and operate their mission-critical business processes and to leverage existing investments in technology infrastructure and applications. Our Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) methodology closely adheres to the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) guidelines covering initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, and project closure. Its scope includes Integration Management, Scope Management, Time Management, Cost Management, Quality Management, Human Resource Management, Communications Management, Risk Management, and Procurement Management. Netspective’s methodology allows organizations to optimize all facets of the application life cycle using tools and methods that support various life cycle stages from conceptualization, through design, development, deployment and operational support to application retirement, and covers existing IT applications as well as new acquisitions.

Organizations typically spend as much as 75% of their IT resources (human and capital) in maintaining an ever growing inventory of applications and support infrastructure. Netspective helps to contain such costs by identifying and eliminating duplication and redundancy and retiring systems that have outlived their usefulness. Using a set of IT lifecycle management solutions – combinations of integrated tools, processes and services – Netspective enables organizations to gain control over their IT assets, ensuring they add the intended value to their business.

Similarly, Netspective analyzes new IT initiatives or acquisitions in terms of potential ROI and suitability of the resulting solution to the requirements on hand, and helps to optimize pay-off against resources allocated (money, time, people, infrastructure, etc.) and potential risks. Netspective uses systematic management techniques to control costs and derive the desired benefits while implementing large IT initiatives or procuring IT services as such application maintenance and support. Netspective helps to quantify the benefits vis-à-vis the expenditure, and provides an objective evaluation of investment scenarios. The ultimate goal is to deliver predictable and higher returns at the lowest level of risk possible.

Netspective puts an organization’s overall IT strategy in perspective, and adheres to the following procedures to ensure completion of IT projects within time and budget:

• Compile a list of projects with details regarding business objectives, estimated costs, expected duration, ROI, business benefit and associated risks
• Eliminate those with poor business cases and those that are not close to the organization’s corporate goals
• Prioritize projects giving greater value to those that are more closely aligned with the company’s strategic objectives
• Whittle down the size, scope and complexity of projects to required and manageable levels
• Evaluate risks and return on investment
• Proactively manage the projects, monitoring them continuously, communicating frequently with stakeholders, and ensuring adherence to project specifications, scope, standards, timelines and costs