Application maintenance support knowledge based management, application development offshore onsite

Excellence & Support Methodology Case Studies

Domain Expertise Technology Expertise

Overview of Visionet’s Application Support and Maintenance Ramp-up Methodology

Case Study # 1 - $8B Retailer

Case Study # 2 - $1B Apparel Wholesaler

Maintenance Transition Methodology

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Resource Centric View of Transition Methodology

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Case Study #1

Successfully Ramping Up Maintenance and Support

CS#1 – The Requirement

Reduce enterprise application support costs

Free internal resources from support roles to focus on capital projects

Increase over all efficiency of IT operations

Overcome negative perception of offshore services by management and staff

CS#1 – The Solution

Provide a blended team of onsite and offshore resources to support a group of initial applications

Educate client’s management and staff on the benefits of the blended onsite/offshore model

Use application support engagement as a tool to gain complete understanding of all company operations and interdependencies

Understand main IT initiatives, as well as business and IT processes in order to provide across the board services to the entire enterprise

CS#1 – The Scope

Transition involved applications in the following areas

PDM

Merchandise Pricing

Broadcast Planning

Enterprise Planning

Broadcasting

Replenishment

Primary eCommerce Web Site

SAP

Mainframe/Cobol

Enterprise Reporting

Resource Allocation

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Progress monitoring at each Application Level

Weekly Detailed Statistics by Application

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Service Calls By Application

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• Overall Average Ticket Resolution time has decreased from 29.47 hrs to 25.25 hours since last review

Project Highlights and Results

Overall Average Ticket Resolution time (decreased from 57.25 hrs to 25.25) hours in 12 months and continues to decrease

Service call queue for PDM reduced by over 80 percent from beginning - ticket resolution time continues to decrease

Valuable analytical and technical contribution provided for Manhattan WMS implementation

Visionet Enterprise Reporting team has developed over 646 reports to date in 8452 hours with a defect rate of less than1.5%

Completed transition of mainframe support work to Visionet onsite resource and have almost completed transition of work to offshore support.

Providing both onsite and offshore support for SAP enhancement development and configuration and continuing to transition more work offshore to reduce cost

Annual $ savings in 7 figures

Case Study #2

Successfully Ramping Up Maintenance and Support

Visionet’s Compelling Advantages over EDS (prior vendor)

Flexible Domain and Technology savvy onsite team – knowledge based management
Significantly lower management overhead and cost to client
Lower charge rate for both offshore and onsite resources (25-35% lower)
Up to 40% higher throughput of Visionet offshore team
No cost bulge of outsourcing during ramp up due to Visionet’s tremendous expertise

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Transition to Support and Maintenance

August 2009 – Customer’s management asked Visionet to take over maintenance support from EDS within two months.

Areas of Transition

New Development, Support and maintenance of ERP
Ownership of BI environment - Development, maintenance and administrations
Oracle DB Administration
SQL DB Administration
Code Configuration Management
QA Services in all areas
EAI Administration and development (Biz Talk)
SharePoint Development and Administration

Training Highlights

EBA/ Web EBA/ CM / BizTalk

Client’s Environment Orientation
Policies and Procedures
EBA/WEB Development Process Guide
BizTalk Development Process
BizTalk Interface Overview
Business Integrated Environments Overview
Additional Training for CM

EBA/ WEB EBA / SSRS Deployment Process
Observed and Managed Sessions

Oracle Admin / SharePoint Admin

Client's Environment Orientation
Policies and Procedures
Oracle Admin

QA testing Support and Release Promotion
DB Administration Tasks
Security Roles and Assignments
Communication Model / On Call Process

Share Point Admin

Current Client's Environment understanding
Security and Contents Organization

QA

Client's Environment Orientation
Policies and Procedures
Business Integrated Environments Overview
QA Procedures
Other Systems Overview (WM, Oracle, Ecommerce etc)

BI / SQL Server Admin

Client's Environment Orientation
Policies and Procedures
VSS Overview
BI Environment overview
EBA/BI Daily Process Cycle
Data Warehouse & Cube Design/Administrative maintenance; EBA/BI Replication
EBA/BI Batch Process Packages (Replication to DW)
EBA/BI Batch Process Packages (Cube processing)
RSA (Retail Sales Analysis)
FBI (Financial Business Intelligence)
Custom Excel & WebPDM/Folio

Actual Transition Time Line

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On time completion with 0% schedule or budget variance

Effort Breakup

November, December 2009

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Results

Seamless transition – Not a single business disruption to business

On time completion of transition – due to quality management as well as technology expertise of client systems

Approximately 35% efficiency in development

25% lower offshore rates

Continuous Monitoring to ensure adherence to SLA

Effort Variance (Threshold:15%) - Current variance stands at 3%
Schedule Variance (Threshold:10%) - Current variance stands at 2%

Annual $ savings in 7 figures

Application Maintenance & Support