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Application Lifecycle Management

Application lifecycle management (ALM) is an integrated system of people, tools and processes that supervise a software application from its initial planning and development, through testing and maintenance, and into decommissioning and retirement. By combining and organizing the elements of an application's lifecycle, ALM improves product quality, optimizes productivity and eases the management and maintenance burden for related products and services.

ALM at Schmersal Group

Purpose

The primary purpose of the function is to build, strengthen and govern application life cycle management process in Schmersal Group.

Process

The ALM process gives an opportunities to track the progress of the application from its inception to retirement & perform the governance across the lifecycle

Key Focus Area

Application Lifecycle management

Managing & keeping the track of the lifecycle of the application from Phase-In to Maintenance to Change to Phase-out of the application

Application Portfolio Management

Managing, maintaining & monitoring the central repository/catalogue of the all the software's within Schmersal Group with all detail

License Management

Managing, maintaining & monitoring the software licenses within Schmersal group against the “Purchased Vs Consumption” of licenses

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ALM - Benefits & advantage

Faster deployments with highly tested quality products 

Same user experience across group  

It is easy to track or define requirements

Reduced IT cost of maintaining and operating the solution

Enhanced compliance & Security

Increased visibility into project status