Managing a vast portfolio of business applications can overwhelm your IT team, elevate costs, and complicate compliance with evolving regulations. CTG's Application Management Services streamline this by providing reliable Tier 2 and Tier 3 support, proactive monitoring, and performance management for both production and legacy software applications. Our upgrade and optimization services ensure your applications evolve with your business needs, freeing your team members to focus on strategic growth initiatives while maintaining compliance and controlling costs.
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Simplify complex IT environments and application portfolios
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Resolve issues quickly so users can get back to work
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Proactive application performance management and monitoring
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900+ applications supported—from leading commercial systems to homegrown
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24x7x265 support
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Experienced analysts with ITIL®, PMI, and application-specific certifications
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application management Offerings
Our Application Management Services are designed to support your business's daily operations, including routine activities, strategic projects, and critical upgrades. With 24x7x365 support, CTG thoroughly understands your organization's specific needs—from process and environment to resource management. We provide a comprehensive, flexible, and customized solution that can be delivered remotely or onsite.
Whether your goal is to accelerate application implementation, optimize existing software applications, or execute major system upgrades and patches, our Tier 2/3 support team offers scalable solutions tailored to your project’s specific requirements. Our services are designed to enhance user experience and boost your bottom line by ensuring optimal application performance and effective business applications management.
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Application Maintenance and Support
Our analysts are skilled at addressing break/fix tickets, troubleshooting, service requests, modifications, configuration, and build activities. CTG offers a full range of support solutions with exceptional response times, resolving incidents swiftly to minimize downtime and ensure your team can quickly return to productive work.
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Application Performance Management and Monitoring
CTG experts work diligently to ensure your business applications are running at peak efficiency. We continuously monitor application performance metrics to proactively identify and rectify issues, implementing bug fixes before they disrupt your business operations and user experience.
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Application Upgrades and Optimization
Each application lifecycle includes essential upgrades—ranging from major releases to interim updates and small package enhancements—each tailored to address specific operational needs. CTG supports your upgrades through comprehensive review, assignment, tracking of release notes, and monitoring of testing progress. In addition to managing upgrades, we also optimize your applications to ensure they meet your evolving business needs and consistently provide value.
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Special Projects
CTG provides the flexibility required to address all of your unique project needs. Whether it involves delivering discrete tasks or managing and executing comprehensive project aspects with our managed services, we are equipped to handle challenges tailored to your specifications.
Focus on Strategic Efforts, Not Your Applications
We’ve provided application management and support services to more than 165 clients
Piedmont Healthcare
During a period of rapid growth through M&A, Piedmont Healthcare needed help balancing day-to-day application support with implementation and optimization of a standard EHR across the health system. CTG’s Tier 2 application support team assumed delivery responsibility for most of the Epic modules and functions, providing reliable, timely issue resolution. As a result, the organization was able to meet its implementation commitments.
Global Imaging Company
CTG has effectively managed more than 800 client server, mainframe, internet, intranet, and SAP applications for our global imaging client, 10%of which are critical applications requiring resolution times of eight hours or less. Today, there are one or two critical incidents per day, down from more than 30, and the client has consistently achieved double-digit, year-over-year savings.
Why CTG?
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Reliability Matters
For 50 years, CTG has been providing the most reliable IT services and solutions
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900+ Applications Supported, 180+ Clients
From leading commercial systems to homegrown systems, our analysts have experience providing reliable support across industries
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Multiple Delivery Models
- 24x7
- Remote/virtual or onsite
- Delivery Center
- Offshore/onshore
- Managed services
- Fully outsourced
- Blended models
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Experienced Analysts
- Industry-specific expertise
- ITIL®, PMI, and application-specific certifications
- Multilingual; seven languages currently supported
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Value-Added Services
- Legacy data archiving
- Continuous process improvement
- Service level reporting and dashboards
- CTG private cloud-based services
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Engagement Management and Reporting
- Dedicated executive and operational leadership and oversight
- Issue/change management metrics and tracking
- Routine status reporting
- Quarterly management review meetings
Is your organization struggling with any of these application management issues?
- Productivity challenges
- Process breakdowns
- Frequent service interruption
- Lack of automation
- High recruitment/retention costs
- Internal staff needed for migration to a new technology
- Systems are written in old technology
- Subject Matter Experts are quickly approaching retirement
- Insufficient cross-training/succession planning
- Change, access, and service/project requests
- Problem management
- Network and storage capacity monitoring
- Configuration
- Recurring issues/reopened tickets
- Root cause identification
- High response/resolution times
- Ticket backlog
- Poor quality
- Data migration
CTG can help. We mitigate the associated risk and improve your overall operations by providing a strong foundation for success with our Application Management Services.
Frequently Asked Questions
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What is application management?
Application management is the process of managing the operation, maintenance, versioning, and upgrading of applications throughout their lifecycle. It includes tasks such as performance monitoring, issue resolution, and ensuring applications meet current and future business needs.
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How does application management differ from application development?
Application management focuses on maintaining and enhancing existing applications to ensure their optimal performance and alignment with business requirements. In contrast, application development is concerned with designing and creating new applications from scratch.
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What are the main benefits of application management?
The main benefits include improved application performance, enhanced user experience, reduced downtime, proactive issue resolution, and optimized IT resources allocation. These collectively help improve organizational efficiency and productivity.
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What is included in CTG’s application management services?
CTG’s services cover full lifecycle management including maintenance, support, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, upgrades, and optimization of cloud applications. Services are customized to meet the specific needs of each organization.
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How does CTG ensure high availability and performance of managed applications?
CTG utilizes continuous monitoring tools to track performance metrics and proactively identify issues. Expert analysts address these issues promptly to prevent any impact on business operations, ensuring high availability and performance.
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What kind of support does CTG provide for application management?
CTG offers 24x7x365 support through Tier 2 and Tier 3 solutions, including break/fix, troubleshooting, and service requests. Support solutions are scalable and tailored to accommodate any size of system project.
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How does application optimization benefit my business?
Application optimization ensures that your applications are not only stable but also tuned to perform efficiently according to your current business processes and needs. This leads to improved productivity, reduced operational costs, and enhanced user satisfaction.
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Can CTG manage applications that were developed by another company?
Yes, CTG can manage applications developed by third parties. Our comprehensive service approach includes understanding your specific application environment, making necessary adjustments, and providing ongoing management and support.
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What strategies does CTG use for application upgrades?
CTG follows a structured upgrade process that includes assessing the current application state, reviewing upgrade paths, assigning tasks, tracking progress, and thorough testing. This ensures seamless transitions with minimal disruption to daily operations.
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How does CTG tailor application management services to individual business needs?
CTG works closely with clients to understand their unique process, environment, and resource requirements. Based on this understanding, CTG designs a customized solution that can be delivered remotely or onsite, perfectly aligned with the client’s specific needs and goals.
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