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Global Enterprise Managed Services
GEMS Overview :
“A
service offering that helps organizations to manage their IT
infrastructure to meet the stated business objectives more efficiently and
cost effectively.“
GEMS
as a service offering covers all the aspects of IT Operations management
as shown in the figure :

GEMS is broadly classified into two categories:
Remote Monitoring Services : The service has
two modules which are classified as a) Performance Monitoring and b)
Availability Monitoring of the IT infrastructure. Both these services
measures and tracks performance / availability SLAs as defined by the
customer. Timely reporting and escalations helps the respective teams to
reduce the downtimes / service disruptions and improve the overall SLA commitments.
Remote Management Services : The service
has four modules classified as a) Performance Management b) Availability
Management, c) Security Management and d) Change Management. Performance
and Availability Management modules include Remote Monitoring Services as
well as performs incident management, Root Cause Analysis and problem
resolution. Change management module performs the required configuration
changes, firmware/OS/patch upgrades etc. as required. Security Management
monitors, tracks and ensures the corporate security policies are enforced
apart from incident management.
Apara proposes the following modules to remotely manage Customer's
infrastructure effectively
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Availability
Management
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Performance
Management
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Change
Management
APARA offers Remote Management Service to monitor and administer
networking devices both on a pro-active and a re-active basis from the
Network operation Center at Bangalore. The GEMS has the capability to
monitor & manage networking devices at remote locations across the
globe. The GEMS team performs tasks to check devices for their working
conditions, and help identify any device failures, WAN link errors, data
collisions, round trip delays, threshold violations and other statistical
data.
We
provide standard SLAs and Customer-specific SLAs using a combination of onsite
and offshore resources to provide 24x7 services based on best-of-breed
tools and adherence to the ITIL process for service delivery.
Depending on the scope of work the GEMS team can provide customers with
real-time notification, trend analysis and offline reports. APARA’s Remote
Management Service will assist Customer to proactively monitor, identify and
fix faults in the network thereby reducing the Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR)
windows.
Service
delivery framework
Apara has a clearly stated engagement model with its clients for all the
GEMS assignments. The engagement goes through clearly defined phases of
activity with well stated processes, deliverables and responsibility
matrix to ensure the quality of service delivery. The various phases of
engagement are as given below.
A
brief overview of the deliverables at each phase of the project is as
given below
Planning
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Detailed Requirement Analysis
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Inventory
of managed IT resources
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SLA definitions
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Monitoring
methods and Tools
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Reporting
formats
Transition
Service
Delivery
Quality
Control
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Periodic Review
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GAP
analysis
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SLA Management
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