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AMPS - Application Maintenance & Production Support

Managing business applications is essentially distinct from developing and installing them. Specialized processes and operations frameworks are required for successful application management, and are key to attaining the IT objectives concerning reliability, stability, scalability, and flexibility.

AMPS offers a comprehensive set of Application Monitoring and Management Solutions that encompass optimization, reengineering, migration, testing and performance tuning, helping organizations reduce system downtime, enhance performance and concentrate on strategic initiatives.

Let AMPS take care of your Application Monitoring & Management

Managing service levels for a application software platform is becoming a complex and expensive proposition as software developers continue to enhance and re-architect their applications.

Ensuring your applications are available and running at peak efficiency is a 24x7 responsibility. The complexities are much higher in the case of a hosted service provider or an ASP where multitudes of applications are hosted on a variety of OS, database and technology frameworks.

AMPS offers comprehensive remote application monitoring and management services to enable your customers and employees to use applications without interruption. This service lets you limit the requirement for internal capacity and expertise, thereby enabling you to reduce the cost of operations and letting you refocus your IT staff on high payback development projects.

Typical Organization of AMPS for our Customers (High Level Overview)

IT department

Key Components & Activities of AMPS

  • Proactively monitor application availability, performance, response time, exceptions, faults and failures using a variety of proprietary as well as third party monitoring tools
  • Measurements are taken from behind your firewall so that there is no security hole and the measurement is related to variables you can control
  • Change management and hosting services management
  • Provide usage trend analysis and status reports
  • 24x7 technical support of your application infrastructure from level 2 and level 3 engineers
  • Visibility into AMPS ’ trouble ticket system via a secure portal
  • We will setup and operate your IT help desk 24x7. Our highly skilled consultants, mature processes and expertise using a wide-range of tools give you the advantage of best in class support experience at reduced costs
  • Act as single point of contact for all users of your organization to direct questions and report problems regarding supported software, hardware & networks
  • Use multiple medium of service such as real-time voice, email, chat and remote login support to your end users
  • Highest percentage of first call resolutions resulting in increased user satisfaction. This reduces need for escalation and also lower cost per call
  • Assist in the notification of trends and situations to allow your organization's IT department to maintain high levels of service to the user community

AMPS Process MATRIX(High level understanding)

Activity Type Description of Service

System / Application Access – Level 1 queries

AMPS Help Desk Consultants address issues related to accessing applications or systems. Support software applications such as desktop productivity tools, business applications, web applications and other software.

  • Support services such as email and collaboration offerings and perform task such as user account creation, administration and technical support.
  • Support hardware devices such as desktop systems, laptops and more. Handle setup, configuration and performance related issues.
  • Support mobile users, for instance Blackberry users on issues such as connectivity, latency etc.
  • Support telecom infrastructure such as instrument support, EPABX administration and more.
  • Offer call login, call routing, status reports and updates.

Support off-the-shelf software products

  • Provide problem reporting, diagnosis, and resolution for supported software products such as Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes Domino etc.)
  • Offer configuration assistance and installation setup assistance

Support Servers & enterprise network

  • Provide for network/hardware related problem reporting, diagnosis, resolution or dispatch.
  • Address network problems such as connecting to servers, LAN, WAN, Mobile, Internet, intranet etc.
  • Address hardware problems such as web/app/database/collaboration servers

Support Enterprise Application

  • Provide for software application related problem reporting, diagnosis, resolution or dispatch.
  • Handle enterprise applications such as ERP/CRM/SCM/Finance Applications.
  • Handle technology issues across software platforms and hardware infrastructure starting from client server until Mainframe.

Planned escalation / Dispatch

  • Escalate problems that are beyond the scope of help desk.
  • Dispatch issues that need external intervention. Such as applications managed by third party.



 
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