Managed Legacy with Consist
Advancing forward with digitalization while keeping business-critical legacy applications running at the same time, as well as compensating for a lack of specialized staff, particularly in the old technologies – this can be smoothly done with Managed Legacy from Consist.
We offer you the combined know-how of our legacy experts, a mixed age-group team of experienced and young specialists. As an investment in the future, we train the next generation of IT staff in legacy technologies, in order to also enable the long term support and further development of old, mature applications and systems. Trust in our years of experience.
Good reasons for Managed Legacy
Your advantages:
- Focus on core business
You can rely on us to take over the operation and further development of your legacy applications and provide you with the freedom to focus on strategic topics. - Availability
Agreeing on Service Level Agreements and KPIs together secures the quality of your business processes. - Gains in efficiency
You benefit from reduced onboarding costs (continuous team planning throughout the entire contractual term), the best possible amount of scaling as well as transparent, predictable service costs. - Flexibility
You are very flexible (no minimum order quantities, can be terminated at any time; purchase volumes which can be freely selected and quickly adapted).
Our strengths:
- Sustainability
We continue to develop and modernize your legacy applications. This enables you to secure your investments in the long term. - Future orientation
We intentionally rely on mixed age-group teams of experienced and young staff, who benefit from one another. We also train young experts in legacy technologies. - Expertise and experience
We have been supporting individual company applications in the legacy environment (Cobol, Natural, PL/I, Assembler) for over 35 years, currently with more than 50 application developers.
Established processes
If you like, make use of our complete assumption of process responsibility and our established processes in takeover and operation. - Individual support
Designed to meet your requirements, you will receive a tailor-made service.
Use Cases for Managed Legacy
Support with legacy applications/systems to be replaced
Goal
Efficient further support of the old system during and after migration to the target system
Activities
- Definition/differentiation of tasks and services to be taken over
- Agree processes, interfaces and service levels
- Transition of the applications/systems to be taken over
- Responsible assumption of operation according to agreed KPIs
- Further development according to agreed KPIs
- Flexible adaptation of services as per business requirements
Result
- Guaranteeing a consistent quality of service during the entire life cycle of the application/systems
- Reducing TCO
- Transparent and predictable service costs with a high amount of flexibility
- Creating the freedom to train and deploy your own staff around the target system
Support with resource shortages
Goal
Responsible (long term or temporary) assumption of defined topic areas to relieve your organization
Activities
- Identification of suitable topics to be taken over
- Definition/differentiation of tasks and services to be taken over
- Agree processes, interfaces and service levels
- Transition of the applications/systems to be taken over
- Responsible assumption of operation according to agreed KPIs
- Further development according to agreed KPIs
- Flexible adaptation of services as per business requirements
- If necessary, return responsibility to your organization
Result
- Securing business processes by avoiding capacity shortages while adhering to compliance guidelines
- Increasing the scalability or your IT organization
- Transparent and predictable service costs with a high amount of flexibility
- Extending the range of your decision making scope
More information
Consist trains young IT experts in legacy technologies.
Mixed age-group teams are one of our strengths. Advanced specialist know-how and many years of experience complement modern methods of project management.
Your contact
Katharina Bischoff
Portfolio Manager
phone: +49 431 3993-554
mobile: +49 172 7436238
e-mail: bischoff@consist.de