Acurus, is a leading provider of outsourcing and staffing services to middle-market clients. A workforce of nearly 260 professionals is constantly striving to add value to our clients.
Our strategy is to create a long-term partnership with our clients using a multi-faceted approach - applying domain expertise in specific industry segments, utilizing a highly-skilled technology workforce, leveraging a proven global delivery model, implementing quality processes & methodologies and being extremely cost-effective.
Application Development & Maintenance (ADM) is a service offered by Acurus that encompasses all custom software development, building of EAI systems and maintenance of systems and sub systems.
Configuring and enhancing Commercial Off-the-shelf products to meet the unique needs that are not 100% met – and often poorly met – by Commercial off-the-shelf products.
Why outsourcing, why not staff augmentation services?
Is Staff augmentation so bad?
Not necessarily. Under a staff augmentation model, the cost of hiring for temporary requirements and disengaging once those requirements have been met can more than offset the higher cost of engaging more permanent resources.
Moreover, staff augmentation requires minimal contracting effort, has a simple cost model (rate times hours worked), can scale up or down quickly and has minimal impact on the existing operating model of an IT organization.
But there are certainly some deficiencies in this model. Staff augmentation, can become problematic when it morphs into a permanent operating model.
As a long-term solution, it has none of the benefits of alternative long-term external sourcing models, such as managed services (outsourcing) and, in fact, can create a number of serious risks and potentially destroy value.
- Rapid access to missing capabilities and skills
- Accommodate staff shortages due to unexpected events
- Avoidance of hiring / de-hiring costs
- Costs scalable to demand
- No impact on operating model
- Easily contracted
- Cost model transparent
- Benefits as a temporary solution
- Rapid access to missing capabilities and skills
- Accommodate staff shortages due to unexpected events
- Avoidance of hiring / de-hiring costs
- Costs scalable to demand
- No impact on operating model
- Easily contracted
- Higher cost
- Fosters a management style that does not plan
- No service level commitment
- All issues attributed to insufficient staffing
- Increase overhead managing individual subcontractors
- Knowledge vested in the individual (as with internal staff, but less control)
The essential difference between the two models is that under a managed services model (outsourcing), the provider is committed to delivering an “outcome” at a defined price versus an “input” as under the staff augmentation model. An input is simply the performance of an activity with no commitment that the activity will result in the desired outcome. The managed service model drives a measure of value based on planning, as the organization must define the requirement on a service and performance criteria basis.
Pricing is tied to the outcome. Should the service requirement diminish or disappear, the associated costs react in kind. This provides the “scalability to demand” often sought in a staff augmentation model, but scalability that is tied to service.
Linked to managed services is a service commitment. Under the staff augmentation model, the only service commitment is hours of work. Under the managed services (outsourcing) model, the provider assumes all of the risk of meeting the service commitment.
A managed services (outsourcing) model delivers all of the skills access and flexibility of a staff augmentation model. Because the model relies heavily on management and process rigor, clients generally experience an elevated capability themselves.
The bias towards staff augmentation
- No Impact on IT organization operating model
- Heightened perception of control and staff management
- Simple and benchmarkable pricing model
- Perception of being more cost effective
- Easily contracted within IT organization
- Partnership not an issue
Value alternative in managed services
- Permits IT organization to focus on requirements not execution
- Enhanced control through service levels and reporting metrics
- Pricing scales to output; equally benchmarkable
- Partnership is key to success. Contracting models increasingly commoditized and standard
Benefits as a long term solution
- Committed services for committed price
- Provider assume delivery risk-productivity incentive
- Lower cost operating model than internal or staff augmentation models
- Transparent line of site between service and cost
- Fosters IT planning and documentation of knowledge
Impact on IT operation model
- Necessitates focus on planning - must review service demands in line with business needs
- Operating model necessitates that IT department relinquish execution responsibility to provider
- Partnership model - long term
- Provider drives operating model and methods within defined parameters and requirements
Application Development and Maintenance
Acurus provides world class, Industry leading Application Development and Maintenance service to meet all your organizations requirements.
Our End to End application build service include,
- Program / Project Management
- Scoping of application functional requirements
- Scoping of non functional requirements
- Assessment of feasibility of the requirements
- Development of requirements specification
- Determination of Architectural patterns
- Development of Solution Architecture
- Development of detailed design
- Custom application development using various state of the art technologies/frameworks
- Integration development
- Configuration of COTS solutions
- Functional and performance testing
- Development of Installation Qualification instructions
- Deployment of the solution
- Providing Hyper care support
- Transition to the RUN operations
Our End to End Run services include,
Production Support (24X7) / Service Management
- Level 1 Support services
- Level 1.5 Support services
- Level 2 Support services
- Level 3 Support Services
Development Support
- Application Enhancements
- Application upgrades
- Release Management
Acurus IT Support and Solutions allows your organization to focus on your core business.From Application performance management, application development to managed IT service, Acurus can support you 24 x 7.IT analytics specializes in information technology solutions for the healthcare industry. Our extensive experience focuses on clarifying business problems that require technological solutions.Our expertise includes system architecture, analysis of components (buy vs. build) and full integration of existing technology, third party solutions and custom applications.
Staying on top of application performance and availability is critical to proactively head off application problems before they happen. Deep, proactive application monitoring, reporting, and alerting keep you in control of your service delivery. We will monitor application performance along with the critical parts of application delivery, including servers, services, and the network. We offer cost effective interface solution to interface multiple EHR systems to facilitate data sharing between Hospitals, Physicians and Wellness Centers.
Acurus IT Support and Solutions allows your organization to focus on your core business. From Application performance management, application development to managed IT service, Acurus can support you 24 x 7.
IT analytics specializes in information technology solutions for the healthcare industry. Our extensive experience focuses on clarifying business problems that require technological solutions. Our expertise includes system architecture, analysis of components (buy vs. build) and full integration of existing technology, third party solutions and custom applications.
Health informatics develops innovative ways to put information and knowledge to use in promoting health and improving health care. Acurus with a core competency in health informatics provides significant expertise of informational, computational, behavioral, and organizational sciences, along with deep understanding of health systems and processes.
We support users across the healthcare system by streamlining management and analysis of clinical patient data generated by diagnostic imaging systems, cardiac testing equipment and patient monitors. We support the continuum of care through an effective suite of solutions for enhancing clinician workflow and patient care, while interfacing seamlessly with core hospital information systems.
The national healthcare reform will reshape the healthcare industry and service providers. Payers and providers face increasing cost pressures, challenges created by increased oversight, mandated technology investment and increased operational processes caused by increased membership.
With our over two decades of healthcare payer experience, Acurus is focused on improving the interoperability of payer systems to improve communication, increase revenue and reduce cost by providing technology and business processing outsourcing solutions and analytics to help payers meet the new challenges.
