Complexity easily managed
IT Infrastructure means more than just the field of hardware, it also means software and applications, which are available through workstations and other devices.
 
Our systematic methodology based approach provides reliable estimates for each IT software project along the horizontal and vertical value chain and ensures meaningful results for each part, e.g. Host-mainframe, middle-ware, back-end, front-end, client server and web based applications, and any combination thereof.
 
Cost Xpert delivers a comprehensive solution for application infrastructure and all types of software:
  1. Hardware closed software, e.g. System, user and embedded Software
  2. Standard Software
  3. Individual Software
No matter how they will or were developed:
  1. New Development
  2. Reuse of modules or components
  3. Integration of third-party products (COTS)
 
Our expertise enables the estimation of effort, schedule and costs for the following IT projects:
  1. Current modernization
  2. Migrations
  3. Consolidation
  4. IT Transfer/Transition
  5. Innovation Projects
  6. Design to cost
Even for projects that are not development (coding) centric:
  1. Implementation/Integration
  2. Testing
  3. Deployment
  4. Maintenance/Operation/Support
Our expertise represents a comprehensive solution. This allows our clients to permanently increase the productivity and efficiency of their IT performance and provides answers to some of their toughest questions:
  • What is more cost effective to purchase and maintain: individual or standard software?
  • How do you estimate Legacy modernization projects and/or support projects?
  • Is it reasonable to reuse modules and components or is new development more advantageous?
  • What are the net integration costs?
  • How can efficiency of IT applications in an enterprise be  reliably estimated and benchmarked?
  • How can deployment projects be estimated?
  • What portion of an infrastructure project is driven by the software components (effort, time, costs, trainings, etc.)?
  • What savings will be realized by the consolidation of specific IT applications?

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