Challenges of IT in the 21st Century
Developing complex web applications in a rapidly changing environment is one challenge. But once built, managing and supporting them to perform optimally with required security and compliance is another challenge!
Minimizing costs, managing limited personnel, ensuring enterprise configuration management, guaranteeing compliance of mandated security and governance reguations, while enabling continuous growth and maximizing early return on investment are the expectations levied on today's IT leadership. To meet these challenges, they must be able to:
- Optimize application, database, and network performance across the enterprise
- Protect sensitive customer and corporate information and meet security/compliance requirements
- Deliver high traffic, high utilization and high availability metrics for web properties
- Enable customers to easily find what they need leading to revenue growth
Solution
Ascendum provides a full spectrum of application support, maintenance and performance management services. Our application support teams have established expertise and experience in managing the application support structure (performance, network, data and security).
From early development through production support, Ascendum's U.S. and India based development and data centers provide a seamless transition for hosting of our customer's applications. Our hosting services provide for smooth migrations from our Global Development Center to our production data centers, or to our customer's environment. Production applications are supported 24x7 by our tier 1 helpdesk and tier 2 and 3 service centers ensuring continuous uninterrupted support using resources worldwide.
Our database management teams provide experience in the administration of SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Sybase and MYSQL databases. Specializing in database performance tuning, security and application enhancements, Ascendem assures high performance, optimized systems that are secure from unauthorized access.
Ascendum provides the resources, methods and tools to assess web utilization and availability to help our clients identify their top performing web sites and discover poorly performing web sites so that they can be enhanced to increase use and ultimately revenue.

