High Value-Added Managed Services (AMS/ITO)

Solution

Achieving stable uptime, operational transformation, cost optimization and improved quality through standardization of IT operations and maintenance and global optimization

Corporate IT operations are facing major challenges, including personnel shortages, increasing system complexity, and rising costs.   ABeam Consulting’s Application Management Services (AMS) /IT Outsourcing (ITO) Service combines service management standardized according to Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) specifications with broad operational insights and high-level solution skills. Using globally optimized structures, we achieve stable operations and maintenance and sustained operational improvements. This allows companies to combine optimization of operations costs with improvements to quality, while accelerating operational transformation and the construction of IT platforms that are resilient to change.

Background

The transformation expected of operations and maintenance teams facing mounting labor shortages and complexity

Recent years have seen corporate IT systems grow more diverse and complex, even as securing expert personnel to take charge of operations and maintenance has grown more and more challenging. On top of this, meeting objectives with traditional in-house structures alone has grown impractical as IT departments face demands for global deployment and 24-hour, 365-day-a-year stable uptime. Against this backdrop, optimizing operations and maintenance costs, streamlining operations and achieving prompt handling of faults and preventative maintenance through the promotion of DX have become urgent tasks. To get the most out of limited resources, companies need to fundamentally revise their operations and maintenance structures and implement globally optimized services.

Challenges

Addressing the operations of increasingly diverse and complex systems and responding to personnel shortages are urgent tasks

Pitfalls

  1. There is a shortage of expert personnel skilled in the operation and maintenance of systems, making it difficult to maintain stable operating structures, including global response
  2. Operations and maintenance costs remain high, while operational streamlining and sustainable cost reduction efforts are stalling
  3. Responses to system faults are not fast enough and the preparation of structures for preventative maintenance are inadequate due to a failure to make progress on operational DX

Approach

Failure to address these challenges creates serious risks in terms of business continuity, including reduced operational efficiency and quality, and delayed responses when faults occur.
To meet these challenges, ABeam offers comprehensive support on the ground in operations and maintenance, leveraging our globally optimized systems, our broad and high-level solutions skills and our deep knowledge of business operations. We combine cost optimization and high quality through the use of standardized service management methods and global offshore resources. We also accelerate fault handling and realize proper preventative maintenance through visualization of operational KPIs, continuous improvement activities and the implementation of AI and automation technology. This allows companies to simultaneously maintain stable operating structures and build IT platforms that are resilient to change.

Key features

  • A Delivery Model That Combines Broad Coverage, Cost Optimization and Quality

    ABeam Consulting boasts high-level skills addressing a wide range of domains such as ERP, BI, personnel management and budget control. We achieve both high-quality operations and maintenance and cost optimization by combining standardized service processes with global structures. We also flexibly leverage offshore resources and implement front-end support suited to each of our clients’ business locations to enable stable service provision.

  • Service Management That Achieves Proposal-Driven Enhanced Operations and Maintenance and Continuous Improvement, Based on Our Deep Knowledge of Business Operations

    ABeam implements a proposal-driven operations and maintenance that leverages our wealth of operational insight and know-how. We drive streamlining and improvements to operations and maintenance quality through the visualization of service KPIs and the continuous implementation of a PDCA cycle to improve KPIs. We also contribute to reductions in work hours and time to solve issues through the aggregation of cross-system knowledge and the promotion of lateral deployment.

  • A Streamlined and Enhanced Delivery Platform

    Using its ITSM tool based on standardized processes (ServiceNow), ABeam Consulting streamlines and enhances operations and maintenance work. We offer more stable and higher quality operations and maintenance services including accelerated incident response and solution proposal, and automated recovery, through the use of AI based on accumulated knowledge and learning outcomes.

Global One-Stop Operations and Maintenance

In global operations for core systems, IT teams face demands for flexible handling of each location’s individual wants and circumstances, as well as for the aggregation of information through platform integration and the achievement of unified governance. ABeam Consulting both visualizes the complete picture by head office through the building of structures that summarize each location by region and supports the use of local systems.

Continuous Improvement of Systems and Their Operations and Maintenance Work

Even when beginning new initiatives that champion transformation, the fact is that such transformation initiatives tend to become mere formalities, with teams reverting to the maintenance and routine operation of existing systems. ABeam Consulting supports post-implementation continuous improvement activities and drives development towards subsequent transformation with the aim of consolidating transformation measures and maximizing their output.

Switching Operations and Maintenance From Existing Vendors

When passing on or integrating work from existing vendors, ABeam Consulting leverages its strong track record in global support structures, and proposes and executes concrete measures aimed at realizing improvements, optimizations and streamlining of costs. We drive smooth transition while minimizing adverse impact on business by working with IT departments, operational departments and the vendor being succeeded, based on a sufficient anticipation of the risks.

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