APO-Consolidation of Application Portfolio of the customer

Customer
One of the world’s largest apparel companies with brands that reach a variety of consumer segments across various retail channels.

The Challenge

• High application maintenance and development cost
• Merger and acquisition resulting in duplicate applications
• Fragmented database servers
• Underutilized applications and systems
• High software license and AMC cost

HCL’s Solution

• Define sourcing options and outsourcing agenda
• Application Portfolio Consolidation by retiring and migrating underutilized and duplicate applications.
• Database server consolidation.
• Re-engineer processes, applications for improving efficiency.
• Replace applications with industry standard products/optimized solutions.

Value Delivered

• Improved quality of service, effective governance through visibility dashboard
• Reduced cost of administration, operation and governance
• Defined “To-be-architecture” and focused projects
• Stable and reliable applications normalized on function, technical, and management quality.

• Retail & Consumer