Client Challenges
- Simplifying the size and complexity of IT systems portfolios
- Building an enterprise-wide focus and a long term portfolio management strategy
- Developing best practices around IT portfolio management – knowing what you have, where to invest and what to retire
- Handling mergers and / or divestures, which further increase complexities
What TCS Provides
We leverage our proven methodologies, industry insight and technology expertise to transform system portfolios and accelerate growth. Our in-house automation capabilities, combined with proprietary tools and frameworks will support your business needs throughout the entire lifecycle. Our services include the following:
Application Portfolio Management: We manage, utilize and restructure your IT application landscape through a governance framework with continuous monitoring, measuring and tuning to align it with your business strategies.
Application Portfolio Rationalization: We assess and rationalize your IT systems portfolio to achieve higher levels of standardization, maturity and stability while reducing exposure to technology risks. We provide you with an application transformation roadmap, along with feasibility assessments, business case development and an ongoing value measurement framework.
Post-merger IT Integration: We facilitate quicker, more effective and sustainable integration of your IT systems and processes, using industry best practices and proprietary benchmarks.
Service Orientation: We apply Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) concepts across the entire value chain to enable a service-driven organization with a focus on improving business agility, reuse and quality of services.
Business Value
Our systems portfolio transformation services will help you achieve the following business benefits:
- Simplified IT to increase flexibility and reduce risks
- Better understanding of the value of assets to ensure their alignment with your business requirements
- Disciplined portfolio management through well-planned investments
- Reduced costs of IT operations
- Seamless integration of systems, processes and people across or within organizations
- Efficient adoption of service orientation and shared services models
Client Thoughts
“TCS has been able to appreciate IMSS’ transformation imperatives and has developed a transformation roadmap for IMSS IT ‘to work with the business’ as well as to ‘optimize IT operating cost.’ We are very pleased with the meticulousness and thought-leadership demonstrated by TCS during this engagement and we welcome them as a strategic partner in IMSS IT transformation initiatives.”
-IMSS Mexico, Joaquia Cardosa, Deputy CIO