Mission Critical Application Services
At A Glance!
Moving your software
applications forward!
As more companies worldwide are
faced with intense competition,
deregulation, innovation and rapid
technological advancements, they
are discovering their IT systems
must be enhanced in order to
support fundamental changes in
business processes.
Defining “The Gap”
While client/server, internet and
other emerging technologies offer
the promise of faster and more
functional software applications,
implementation of business
solutions which encompass these
new technologies present major
challenges for companies which
lack appropriate resource and
project management expertise.
The IT Challenge
There are hundreds of technology
choices now available as bits and
pieces of information that must be
painfully assembled into
customized, usable applications
by skilled engineers.
How much ‘glue code’ is required
and how does one support and
maintain such a solution once it is
complete?
The “Resource Crunch”
In-house IT resources and skills
are typically stretched across a
wide range of initiatives,
technologies and implementation
timelines. While many companies
are being “down-sized” and “rightsized” in order to remain
competitive, it is difficult to expand
IT departments while attempting to
reduce overall costs.
office primes the projects and HP
in effect becomes an extension of
the customer’s IT organization.
The problem is compounded by
an increasing shortage of qualified
IT engineers, and, as a result,
many large companies are
pursuing ways to outsource their
IT projects. However, outsourcing
brings its own challenges.
This new approach gives the
customer the benefits of both
worlds. They maintain control of
strategic applications while
improving time to market through
access to HP technological depth
and resources around the globe.
Outsourcing!
MCAS: Approach
Outsourcing has the advantage of
improved company focus, access
to new skills/technology and
reduction of costs by converting
in-house fixed IT costs to variable
costs. It also has the
disadvantages of loss of control
over the project and further
erosion of in-house skills.
MCAS is a scalable approach and
methodology that ranges from
small development projects up to
mega infrastructure re-engineering
initiatives executed as part of a
long-term alliance between the
customer and HP.
MCAS: Solution
To protect our customers, HP has
developed a partnership
approach by collaborating on
“joint project management”
through the ‘project office’
concept.
The project office is staffed by the
customer and HP. The project
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This collaboration links the
customer environment to HP and
the project office becomes the
gateway for access to HP’s global
technology and software
development resources.
MCAS: Services
MCAS is already being used
around the globe to improve the
competitiveness of HP customers.
MCAS service items are a
convenient way to describe the
services available to customers.
Application Development
Backlogs of strategic software
applications that are needed can be
completed without effecting other
development schedules.
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Application Enhancement
Enhancements can extend the
life of existing applications to
improve their ROI, while freeing
up resources to complete other,
higher priority projects.
Migration/Rehosting
Existing applications can be
moved to supportable, less
expensive platforms, improving
the quality and cost of the IT
infrastructure.
Euro’02 Remediation
It’s three years away, but even
now, estimates indicate it will
require work that will exceed
Year 2000 efforts.
Internet Enabling
Networking, client/server, WWW,
electronic commerce,
mainframes, UNIX, NT, Objects,
Java, middleware technologies,
network & systems management,
security, messaging, imaging,
process management, directories
and secure transaction
processing.
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a few experts?
MCAS: The bottom line!
Our distributed development
processes, methodologies, tools,
and our ability to resource large
development efforts as part of
the collaborative approach and
methodology gives HP a unique
ability to help our customers
effectively bridge the gap without
losing control of their strategic
software applications.
Technical information in this document is
subject to change without notice.
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