| Staffing a maintenance project with the right kind of
people has always been a challenge. Many software professionals tend to view it as a
'temporary' or 'uncool' assignment as the technologies used may be out of vogue. Also
legacy systems have come to be regarded as liabilities within businesses – for the
resources they demand for their upkeep. Yet, they cannot be thrown out as they form
mission critical aspect of the business. Outsourcing of Application Maintenance has been
found to be an answer for these two questions vexing many companies worldwide. The Benefit of Outsourcing
The above diagram clearly shows the continued benefits of application maintenance. With
outsourcing, you will no longer need to worry about the resources required to rewrite and
re-engineer mainframe and client/server applications onto newer platforms. Nor will you be
burdened with justification of ROI when software maintenance is eating away your
productivity gains.
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