Application Lifecycle Management
Applications manage your business. Manage your applications. Road Map Technologies governs your IT applications, managing risks and leveraging opportunities such as: license optimization, planned critical updates, seamless integration of new technology, and best practice workflows.
Identify
Thorough identification of enterprise-wide applications and devices is the critical step of a Windows migration project. Tool sets including applications such as SCCM, Altiris or Snow, among others, are typically used to accomplish the inventory. If you do not have tools in your environment that can provide inventory reports, we provide tool sets to complete a confident and controlled and complete discovery and inventory of your environment. The inventory step can be managed agent-less (without installing software on your devices) or by installing an agent from our toolkit.
Roadmap Technologies will deliver a complete identification all devices and Operating Systems (OSs) including: computers, servers, mobile devices, VMWare, and Open Stack. Beyond the devices and OSs, Roadmap Technologies discovers and identifies all applications installed across all platforms, regardless of the OS. Through our rigorous identification process, Roadmap Technologies delivers confidence and control for our clients, with a complete and reliable inventory of their IT environment.
Report
Roadmap Technologies provides complete visibility with simple and usable reports detailing your applications and devices, identifying platforms, OSs, total number of application versions across the enterprise and installation counts.
Key reports include:
- Complete version count of named applications installed on the total number of machines
- Incompatibility issues: identification of the specific machines that cannot support the latest OS and\or application requirements.
Rationalize
The rationalization step resets your environment for optimal efficiency. Moving to a new OS, it is ideal to reduce your application count where possible. Integrating each new application in an environment requires labor hours. By identifying specific applications and versions that are needed in an environment and eliminating redundancy or the waste of unnecessary legacy applications, you can save the time cost and expense of the labor hours it takes to integrate the applications in the new OS.
For complete visibility, confidence and control, Roadmap Technologies uses systems and processes to reveal:
- Optimal efficiency opportunities with applications
- Required hardware upgrades or refreshes
The rationalization step supports a reliable and complete overall cost (hardware and software) of an OS migration.
Integrate
Roadmap Technologies values the integration step as the key to your efficient and effective OS or environment migration. It is the step that differentiates smooth upgrades from those wrought with business interruption. Our expertise sets us apart.
OS migrations are only successful when all required applications will work in the target OS. As operating systems are updated, some applications will not natively install. Identifying what apps cannot run on the latest OS are generally good candidates for alternative methods of packaging such as application virtualization. Having the right tools in your toolkit is crucial when delivering applications to multiple platforms or environments. Roadmap Technologies works with different vendors to provide the right tools for packaging in your environment. We can show you the tool sets in comparative side-by-side demos for your complete confidence in identifying the optimal functionality and solution you need.
Workflow Process Optimization
Still using spreadsheets? Do you rely on people when a process or system could free the people to add business-critical value?
Managing applications can be very cumbersome, not just when working through a migration process, but managing day to day application delivery. Get away from the spreadsheets. Know where your applications are in the lifecycle process from request to retirement. Track all application documentation in one system. Report on your application status and SLA. Roadmap Technologies can assist in providing the right highly-automated tool to track your application workflow. Our solutions can be on premise or hosted in the cloud.
Roadmap Technologies provides Visibility, Confidence and Control in your Application Lifecycle Management.
License Management
Do you have hidden financial risk or opportunity with your IT licenses?
License what you need with precision and visibility of use.
License management is crucial to companies today. Avoid a costly and exhausting audit! Confidently know what applications are licensed, how many licenses are used, and how many you have on hand. Do not let your company loose track of licensed applications and risk for an audit with the potential for expensive penalties.
For example, do you have users downloading software to their mobile devices, beyond the licenses you have purchased for your environment? Do you have users licensed for applications they once needed but no longer use? Can that license better serve another area of your organization without requiring the expense of another seat?
Roadmap Technologies has the tools and processes to lend confidence and control for optimizing your IT licensing.