Go-live is a milestone, not the end of application delivery.

Whitepaper - After Go-Live: The Enterprise Guide to Application Reliability, Managed Services, and Continuous Optimization

Go-live marks the beginning of an application's real operational life, you know? And let's be honest, without a decent handoff, clear expectations on who is in charge, proper monitoring in place, plus a culture of continuous improvement, all those tiny little defects, recurring issues, undocumented workarounds, and operating costs just keep on creeping up.

Innovatix Technology Partners' whitepaper - 'After Go-Live' explains that application reliability should be viewed as a journey that lasts, not just a one-off handover from the project team to support.

What You Will Learn in This Whitepaper

This guide gives you the lowdown on Innovatix's four-stage approach to managing an application through its whole lifecycle, not just the launch phase:

• Stabilize: This is where you sort out the transition to support, make sure you have got a handle on the technical ins and outs, map out all the dependencies and get an idea of what a normal day looks like for incident resolution.
• Observe: Keep a close eye on the application, the infrastructure, integrations and the things users do most often so that you can spot potential problems before they become big issues.
• Operate: Get a handle on incident, problem and change management, plus the ongoing maintenance and support for the application.
• Optimize: Use what you learn from incidents to make lasting fixes, tweak performance, get your cloud costs in line, automate repetitive tasks and sort out any technical debt that has been hanging around.

The whitepaper also outlines what to evaluate in a managed services partner, including transition planning, skills breadth, flexibility, continuity, and a commitment to ongoing improvement. It identifies practical measures such as availability, mean time to resolve, repeat incident rate, change failure rate, application run cost, and user satisfaction.

Finally, it provides a 90-day path to assess application priorities, establish a baseline and pilot a managed model, then scale support based on the results.

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