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Marlabs is delivering product sustenance services to a provider of educational and knowledge solutions.

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Keep your applications aligned with your business processes  
Are you looking to transform your application maintenance and support processes so that you can lower costs while increasing efficiency, effectiveness, and agility of your core applications?

Marlabs application maintenance services provide you with the flexibility to achieve better business outcomes. You are able to adjust service and pricing levels to align performance with your total cost of ownership. Service levels are periodically monitored and redefined if required.

Key support activities include:

  • Enhancements and bug fixes.
  • Controlled releases, product upgrades, and application of product patches.
  • Development of new modules, sub-systems, or
    entire sections of an application.
  • Application configuration.
  • Performance tuning.

The scope of application maintenance encompasses issues faced by end-users as well as issues that are identified by maintenance teams while monitoring the application. Total transparency during the communication process ensures that issues and risks are identified early on. Appropriate resolution steps and mitigation strategies are put in place well before issues become critical.

Support model
Activities are based on a tiered three-level support model:

  • Level 1 - Issues are handled and resolved by a dedicated helpdesk that works on the basis of a
    “follow the sun” model to provide 24x7 support.
  • Level 2 - Includes a development team to address issues that are escalated from Level 1.
  • Level 3 – Support is provided by senior engineers on more complex and effort intensive issues.

The application support and problem resolution process at Marlabs covers:

  • Phone and email support.
  • Regular weekly teleconferences and reporting.
  • Periodic feedback and review mechanisms to provide visibility into performance.
  • Well defined and established escalation processes.
  • Account managers to interface between customer and delivery teams.
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  DBA Services
Reduce database administration costs while keeping systems and services running efficiently
  Application Maintenance Support
Balance budgets, resources, and service levels with the expertise to keep your systems going
  Methodology
The Marlabs application development approach combines the best of popular methodologies including Waterfall, Agile, JAD, RAD and Spiral.
Initiate >> Investigate >> Resolve >> Close
   
Identify problem and analyze details.
Assign calls based on priority levels (as per SLAs).
Notify call initiator on the severity of the problem.
   
Define scope of change.
Conduct impact analysis.
Document and review changes.
Track investigation of problem.


   
Determine resolution options.
If resolution is a workaround, carry out root cause analysis and identify fix.
Implement and test application fix.

   
Communicate resolution.
Obtain confirmation of resolution.
Close call.
If issue resurfaces, reopen call.

SLAs are managed through a structured process:

  • Define, review, and sign off SLAs.
  • Periodically collect and analyze performance data on service levels.
  • Undertake proactive actions based on performance analysis.
  • Submit regular reports on SLA achievement.
  • Initiate corrective actions in case of any deviations from target.
  • Carry out initiatives to further improve performance beyond defined SLAs.