After your software has gone through the acquisition and inventory phases, you will be ready to install it on your company's computers. Again, a centralized installation policy with one person or department in charge of all software deployment is optimal. Additionally, you should make sure that only those in charge of software installation are allowed to do it.
A good software installation policy can help you control risks that are often related to unauthorized software. In the absence of proper installation policies, your company is left open to a number of vulnerabilities, including:
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- Increased susceptibility to viruses
- Compromised security and/or security breaches
- Loss of Data
- Reduced productivity
- Increased risk of unlicensed or pirated software in your environment
As always, you should keep all software media-including license documentation, user manuals, and installation media-in a safe storage area, and designate one department to maintain it after installation.
It is imperative that all employees receive the Software Use Policy and understand what their roles and responsibilities are regarding your company's software and hardware. Creating and adhering to this policy will help minimize the risks your organization faces by keeping your systems free from viruses, reducing the number of support calls, and keeping your software inventory up to date.
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Maintenance Process
Recent trends in the global IT scenario show that companies have to shell out a huge part of their budget on the software maintenance and a big share of human resources in the form of skilled workers to the day to day software maintenance of the existing systems in order to keep pace with the ever changing application maintenance requirements. Dataman can help you cut costs at such crucial situations.
Dataman offers you the most efficient ongoing application maintenance and software development solutions like Customized competency software, Client server application, Web hosting services, System Integration Management at very reasonable costs. The software support and application maintenance team at Dataman can successfully integrate our solutions to your system with the aid of cutting edge technology.
Dataman believes in easier vendor upgrades that can help clients to meet the application maintenance and servicing challenges at an unbelievably reduced cost. Dataman combines perfect business understanding, well-run technical expertise and profound process knowledge and experience to follow a three step approach in handling software and application maintenance.
Remedial Maintenance: Dataman provides corrective and remedial software maintenance to clients fixes round the clock with a very functional help desk that reports.
Preventive/ Perfective Maintenance: Dataman can cut down the cost of using a corrective software maintenance process in the near future. We can help you pick out any existing defects and faults in the system that may be a cause of worry and concern later on.
Adaptive Maintenance: Dataman helps business vendors to move with the times. We have the requisite skills to add enhancements and other functional extensions that can expose you to a wider market.
Software application maintenance process is an important step under Application Development Process.
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