Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) aligns with NHS priorities by facilitating the seamless ALM from inception to retirement - planning, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance, ensuring applications meet NHS requirements for data security and regulatory compliance. ALM service prioritises resource allocation, and risk management to optimise performance and support continuous improvement.
Features
- All business applications identified and documented
- Board level dashboards for application estate
- Application discovery and multi-format automation (packaging)
- Regular updates to applications to ensure security compliance
- Create an organisation wide application catalogue
- Tried and tested application lifecycle methodologies from experienced application experts
- Application deployment, multi-platform software distribution
- Application removal and maintenance of application estate
- Implementing and managing security protocols, data protection measures, and compliance.
- Real-time monitoring of application performance with proactive troubleshooting and optimisation.
Benefits
- Delivers application consolidation, automation and regular updates
- Ensures security compliance, regular patching and removal
- Enables strategic alignment of application state to business objectives
- Lowers total cost of ownership
- Centralise and simplify application deployment and distribution
- Reduced risk through cost and time effective application packaging services
- Enforce application policies with automated testing and packaging
- Reduce cost and management overhead through application rationalisation
- Outcome and deliverable based – ensuring business benefits are achieved
- Deliver a clear and concise view of your application estate
Pricing
£250 to £650 an instance a day
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
7 1 5 4 8 3 5 4 3 9 5 3 0 5 3
Contact
2MG SOLUTIONS LTD
Marcin Glanc
Telephone: 020 3878 3900
Email: sales@2mgsolutions.com
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
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Strategic Planning and Initial Assessment: 1-2 months for understanding organizational needs and defining the ALM strategy.
Application Development/Modernization Phases: Timeline varies based on project complexity, typically ranging from 3 to 12 months.
Continuous Maintenance and Support: Ongoing, with scheduled reviews and updates.
Performance Monitoring and Optimization: Real-time, with periodic adjustments based on findings.
Lifecycle Planning and Decommissioning: Planned according to application lifespan, with early planning for end-of-life scenarios.
(Note: Implementational Planning and Timeline is a customised service, based on individual customer's scope and objectives) - Planning service works with specific services
- No
Training
- Training service provided
- Yes
- How the training service works
- 2MG Solutions typically adopt a model where they are integrated into the operational team to ensure the implementation lifecycle is adhering to operational processes in a specific organisation. Our approach is aimed to maximise training, train the trainer and knowledge transfer across the lifecycle, typically ending in an operational acceptance testing and formal handover process with an option for early life support.
- Training is tied to specific services
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- Yes
- How the setup or migration service works
- Service allows to move application management and deployment to the cloud, providing access to cloud tools and deployment technologies.
- Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services
- No
Quality assurance and performance testing
- Quality assurance and performance testing service
- Yes
- How the quality assurance and performance testing works
-
QAT testing is included in the service.
UAT testing is coordinated with users nominated by customers.
Security testing
- Security services
- Yes
- Security services type
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- Security strategy
- Security risk management
- Security design
- Cyber security consultancy
- Security testing
- Security incident management
- Security audit services
- Certified security testers
- Yes
- Security testing certifications
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- CREST
- Other
- Other security testing certifications
- CEH EC-Council
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- Yes
- Types of service supported
-
- Buyer hosting or software
- Hosting or software provided by your organisation
- Hosting or software provided by a third-party organisation
- How the support service works
- Custom addition to the service, individually agreed with each customer
Service scope
- Service constraints
- -
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- Custom element of the service, individually agreed with each customer.
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- Individually agreed with each customer depending on the level of service purchased.
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- None
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- NQA
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 05/04/2022
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- -
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Cyber essentials plus
- No
- Other security certifications
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
-
Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Covid-19 recovery
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
ALM reduces the carbon footprint by optimising resource usage, minimising waste in development processes, and promoting energy-efficient technologies, contributing to environmental sustainability.Covid-19 recovery
ALM enables agile development and deployment of healthcare applications, facilitating rapid response to public health emergencies like Covid-19, ensuring efficient vaccine distribution, and enhancing healthcare resilience.Tackling economic inequality
By streamlining application development and maintenance processes, ALM reduces costs, making healthcare services more accessible and affordable, thus addressing economic disparities in healthcare access.Equal opportunity
ALM ensures that healthcare applications are designed and maintained to be inclusive and accessible to all, regardless of socio-economic background, promoting equal access to quality healthcare services.Wellbeing
ALM supports the development of healthcare applications focused on preventive care, mental health support, and patient engagement, contributing to improved overall wellbeing and quality of life for patients and healthcare professionals alike.
Pricing
- Price
- £250 to £650 an instance a day
- Discount for educational organisations
- No