Our mission is to immediately work as an extension of our
customers' IT organization to deliver clear and measurable value.
Our E5 Systems specialists work closely with our customers to rapidly assess their business landscape and identify the right types of new and existing applications for outsourcing Application Development & Maintenance Services (AMS) and management. Part of due diligence strategy involves baselining IT spending and isolating areas of cost reduction and process optimization. We provide both a ROEI justification model and a high-level Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) model of our clients' software portfolio to identify the full scope of IT budget costs and areas that can be optimized. We apply the same type of focus to our clients' new Application Development & Maintenance Services and legacy application areas and by putting in place ROI metrics to ensure that overtime value to the business will not be lost.
Since the majority of existing IT application maintenance organizations have zero to low CMMI level certification, we provide an IT strategy for transitioning targeted application maintenance processes to an equivalent SEI CMM level 3 or greater for increased responsiveness and quality.
Strategic Portfolio Management
Strategic Portfolio Management is the core of our approach and the method we use to continuously align our clients' IT investments with their changing business needs.
Strategic Portfolio Management is comprised of the following
practice areas:
Strategic Portfolio Assessment
We like to call Strategic Portfolio Assessment "Looking Under the Hood." E5 Systems specialists look at every aspect of our client's existing systems. They then assess the current state of applications and internal processes, how they are currently supported, outstanding enhancements and defects, and the position of applications in their lifecycles. E5 Systems specialists then determine applications that are in critical need of better efficiencies and provide clients with a comprehensive Portfolio Management strategy that includes plans to transition select business applications to our Application Management solutions.
Application Outsourcing Roadmap
Strategic Portfolio Assessment then creates an Application Roadmap. The roadmap builds on the information gained in the portfolio analysis as well as ROEI process and models. The objective is to provide clients with a scientific and logical rationale for determining the optimum candidates for outsourcing. The results of the analysis are then used to categorize applications and clusters of applications to develop a multi-year outsourcing plan.
Delivering Value
Part of our strategy includes providing our customers with value and deliverables every step of the way. Within weeks of working with our customers, our E5 Systems specialists deliver:
Reducing IT Budget Costs
Through our combination of process, methodology, technology, and global resources, clients often realize up to 30% in application cost reductions in the first year of Strategic Portfolio Management. These savings are included in FTE and SLA-based agreements that not only determine savings but also provide our customers with the flexibility and agility of a working agreement that best fits their needs.
Increasing Business Value Output
At E5 Systems, our motto is "Do the right work, and do the work right". We pinpoint existing inefficient applications and manage them with the care and discipline that a software company would its packaged products. As a result, we deliver up to a 35% increase in business value output in the first year of Advanced Application Management.
Aligning IT Resources With Business Needs
In many cases, budgets and skilled resources are tied up simply by maintaining applications, which leaves little flexibility to address strategic initiatives that can have a major impact on the organization. E5 Systems specialists not only look at how to reduce costs, but also how resources can be redeployed after legacy applications have been transitioned to offshore resources.
Speed-To-Market
IT organizations have often been criticized for not getting new features and functions into production quickly enough. Our implementation of a Strategic Portfolio Management approach allows our clients to address the Speed-to-Market issue in several ways. First, IT resources can be freed up from non-core "running the business" maintenance activities and reallocated to strategic "advancing the business" initiatives. The rigorous process control provided by our Advanced Application Management Methodology also results in faster coding, better testing, fewer errors, and a more predictable release schedule.