Many things go into the incredibly complex world that is IT. One of those various things is application management. But what is that? On the technical side, application management is an IT governance approach geared toward providing an optimal application performance benchmark. Each segment has different objectives:
Application owners are the executive personnel that view AM in terms of business productivity, revenue, and control.
Application developers/managers are responsible for how an application is developed, deployed, and maintained.
Application users – Application management is measured according to how much security it has, privacy, and versioning, along with the overall control of application processes and modules.
Applying management plays a vital part in decisions regarding the application itself, such as deciding if the application is purchased or developed in house. The choice for this is often determined by the Cheif Technical officer or by the decision of a Steering committee that relies on information from various sources. Once a final decision has been made regarding the decision to purchase or develop in the house those involved in the Application Management, then go on to work with a Technical Management team to design, test, manage, and improve the IT services that are developed and refined.
Application Landscape
By definition, application landscape is the structure and/or coherent set of all important information systems, services, business objects, modules, functionalities, building-blocks, applications, components, interfaces, and databases and their platforms, technologies, types, and interdependencies, with regards to business continuity.
Essentially the application landscape is the blueprint for designing the application.
Application Management Services
Application Management Services or AMS is when the task of providing continual support is outsourced for an app. Potentially to a provider that specializes in the type of maintenance that the app needs. Whether you’re a small company or a larger corporation using AMS to your advantage can improve internal efficiency and increase app user satisfaction.