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| Kale’s
Application Development and Maintenance services ensure reduced
TCO, increased productivity, improved time-to-market, and
better operational quality through established methodologies,
flexible engagement models and state-of-the-art facilities.
Kale partners with its customers in enhancing their core
competencies by outsourcing technological aspects of running
the business. With proven
expertise and repeatable
management processes in the area of Application Development
and Maintenance (ADM), Kale provides various Outsourced ADM
delivery options, appealing cost models, predictive risk mitigation
of ongoing development and maintenance of applications, and
a world-class infrastructure to support such engagements.
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| Kale Advantage |
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Established methodology
ensuring on-time delivery |
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Well defined SLAs for
24x7 support |
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Flexible engagement
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Domain expertise |
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State-of-the-art infrastructure |
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| Our
service offerings in ADM include: |
| Outsourced
Development and Maintenance |
| Kale adopts different
engagement models in various Outsourcing Engagements
depending on the type of technology/ application
outsourced and size of engagement. The outsourced
model varies from small onsite engagement for managing
mission critical applications to an ODC setup where
host of applications are managed. These service
offerings are available on various technology platforms
and industry accepted tools. |
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| Offerings |
| Managing ODC (Offshore
Development Center) engagements |
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| Custom application
development |
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| Application maintenance
and modernization |
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| Redesign and Reengineering
of existing applications |
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| Application Hosting |
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| Content management
for web applications |
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| Application Rationalization |
| Kale offers IT Application
Portfolio Rationalization services to help client’s
businesses align their IT systems with the organization’s
strategic needs. Kale uses its well defined four
phase approach to rationalize the application portfolio
that results into a clearly charted roadmap for
IT enterprise architecture with specific recommendations
for applications that need to be retired, enhanced,
migrated or newly developed. |
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| Architecture
Roadmap Consulting |
Identifying Business and IT needs |
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Requirement and Gap Analysis |
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| IT Portfolio
Optimization |
Eliminating
redundant Applications |
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Retiring
end-of-life applications |
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Renovating
valuable applications |
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Developing
new applications |
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Technology
transition, if applicable |
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| Application Integration |
Kale uses proven tools
such as TIBCO, BizTalk, iBOLT to achieve real-time,
near-real-time, or batch integration more quickly
and easily to create an ‘Integration Knowledge
Repository’ within the organization to help
jumpstart new integration projects.
Our Integration solutions not only address sharing
data across disparate systems, but also integrate
business processes |
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| Offerings |
| EAI Consulting
that includes Readiness Assessment, EAI Roadmap,
Project Management, Tool Evaluation and Selection,
etc. |
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| End-to-end Application
Integration Management
that includes Architecture Definition, Development
and Deployment, EAI Audit, etc. |
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| Reengineering/
Reverse Engineering |
| Kale provides IT
service for reengineering applications (outdated
business applications and technology) so that they
can keep pace with the changing business practices.
It is also common
for an enterprise to have its applications been
developed decades back without proper documentation.
In such cases, reverse engineering the existing
applications becomes a prerequisite before any
migration / enhancements can be done.
Kale follows a
well-established methodology to reengineer and
reverse engineer customer’s applications
that ensures customers save on the time to implement
the changes and also preserve their existing IT
investments.
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| Why Re-engineer? |
| To reduce maintenance
costs |
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| To decrease defect
rate |
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| To convert to a
better Technology platform |
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| To lengthen the
life-span of a software |
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| Offerings |
| Reengineering the
mission critical applications so that they
can be made futuristic. |
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| Reverse engineering
the existing applications implemented on older
technologies. |
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| Tuning and Optimization
Services |
| Kale partners with it’s
customers in thoroughly understanding potential
performance issues that may impact their critical
applications or services resulting in unpredictable
behavior, excessive response times, and in the worst-case
fatal server crashes. Kale helps you in mitigating
risks by testing, tuning, and diagnosing performance
issues for the solutions implemented in your company.
This enables customers to isolate and resolve bottlenecks
ahead of time to help increase application and infrastructure
performance. |
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| Offerings |
| Managed Performance
tuning |
Assessment
of business systems, identification of performance
bottlenecks and application issues, determining
severity of these problems, rapid prototyping,
network infrastructure analysis and design,
and database optimization and tuning. |
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| Capacity and
scalability tuning |
Identify possible system failure due to increase
in number of transactions. Recommending capacity
requirements for application platform to handle
additional scalability required. |
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