Developed by United Software Associates involves: Demarcating the project into onsite, offsite and offshore components based on your need Allocating these components accordingly to generate optimal cost – value relationship

United Software Associates' Global Delivery Model delivers the best results because

• Excellent product quality and significantly lower costs.
• Time saving involved in learning and delivering applications.
• Access to the best people

Investments in IT assets are continuous in nature often leading to creation and maintenance of a number of applications spanning seamlessly over legacy and modern technologies. Since these technologies are prevalent and working effectively in an enterprise, there is very little incentive to change these systems in a rapid manner. Most enterprises have a policy that translates into – we keep, what works!

United Software Associates recognizes and to a large extent endorses this philosophy of our customers and offers them these services in the area of application maintenance:

• Analysis of current applications
• Recommendations on Best fit – Onsite, Offsite, Offshore
• Choice of Activity
• Maintenance
• Technical Support
• Helpdesk

United Software Associates' application migration services help our customers to migrate their existing applications to new cutting edge technologies. These can help you:

• Scale up
• Improve performance
• Make it easy to maintain
• Remove reliance on older technologies & related issues of supporting it
• Make it accessible over Internet & Wireless networks

Infrastructure is the bed-rock of any enterprise. It consists of assets that are necessary to conduct business in an efficient manner. United Software Associates has built its infrastructure in a manner that promotes fast scale up and flexible operations. Our facilities are run by a management team who believe in delivering results for our customers.

We ensure that our

• Infrastructure complies with standards for Security & Quality
• Operational conditions are as desired
• Technology used is efficient and latest
• Total Cost of Ownership meets industry bench marks
• Qualified and Certified people are available to maintain the infrastructure domain.

United Software Associates has built its infrastructure using the right mix of technology and management expertise. Our infrastructure offers you the highest security standards both in the physical and network domains. Compliance to international quality standards like ISO 9001-200 and maintenance of their compliance by periodic audits.

Outages in applications that run your enterprise can at best be embarrassing; at worst, they can cripple. Today, businesses demand quick delivery, constant feature enhancements and a high level of confidence in the quality of their software, at a price that is not just economical but also highly profitable.

Our independent validation solutions bring in rigorous validation methodologies that reduce defects in every stage of the SDLC. Our best of breed testing skills, ROI-based validation strategies, risk-based test effort optimization, increased productivity through automation and end-to-end testing solutions ensure enhanced delivery confidence, predictable time to market and lower cost of ownership to our clients.

Our solution teams are comprised of testing professionals with close domain expertise, and the ability to create solutions for you based on your industry. This has often resulted in our clients being able to minimize bug fixing and maintenance costs and in turn focus on new features and enhancements, thereby leaving the competition behind.

Managing an application portfolio is a continuous and complex task for any enterprise. We bring you our understanding of the issues and requirements in an application portfolio management exercise, and the frameworks that we leverage to assist organizations with these issues. Our detailed and customized approach ensures the unlocking of real savings through optimal management of your application portfolio.

United Software Associates approach is distinct in bringing value to your enterprise:

• The United Software Associates Portfolio Management Model is customized for the client's specific industry.
• Our project approach has been designed to mitigate the risks inherent in gathering and segmenting data from multiple sources and of variable quality. This includes processes to streamline the large and complex task of gathering the key metrics and data for each application.
• Our deep understanding of technology and applications - both modern and legacy - will help the client accelerate and improve the quality of data gathered and analyzed.
• Our approach to delivering value through application services sourcing draws upon the proven Global Delivery Model.

United Software Associates can carry out application portfolio segmentation for your enterprise, thus ensuring that you meet your business goals. Specifically, United Software Associates' approach is crafted to achieve the following outcomes:

• Contiguous and logical groupings of applications according to identified and validated criteria.
• Readily recognizable, definable and measurable responsibility and accountability within and between application groupings.
• Application services supply market attractiveness and alignment
• Clarity in making in-source versus outsource decisions
• Appropriate governance of intellectual property management and emerging regulatory requirements
• Maximization of the strategic goals of the organization