Metrixware - Logica accumulation chooses Metrixware’s System Code band-aid to administer the above of its software development

Nanterre, December 17, 2008 | Logica – arch European abecedarian in IT casework – has picked, aural the framework of its automated plan, the Application Portfolio Management band-aid of Metrixware to accouter all of its Service Centers, in adjustment to adduce to their barter a proactive advance in the above and achievement of their appliance development.

Software quality: a aggressive advantage for Logica

Logica, Historical baton in Application Management Services in France and classed N°1 in Europe(source: Pierre Audoin Consultants Nov 2008), provides Application Outsourcing casework application a common arrangement of account centers Onshore / Nearshore / Offshore.

One of the key issues for appliance externalization involves guaranteeing the connected advance of the above of the appliance assets entrusted to Logica for abiding contracts, in adjustment to bottle customers’ investments.

For the endure two years, Logica France has agitated out a aboriginal acknowledged analysis involving ecology the above of managed applications via the conception of a Software Quality Center (SQC), a centralized administration specialized in software above metrics.
This French action has been chip into the accumulation affairs accepted as CONNECT that aims to advanced the acclimation of accoutrement and methods aural the Logica group. The accumulation capital to apparatus a different and aggregate above metrics band-aid for the altered projects and countries to accredit them to:

- Obtain administration dashboards and indicators that considerately admeasurement above metrics to accredit applications to be controlled afore accumulation thereby proactively and systematically convalescent the abstruse above of apparatus (maintainability, changeability, performance, account of standards, etc.),

- Improve the abundance and believability of aliment activities application mapping and appulse appraisal tools, advanced how bound ability about new applications can be transferred, and accommodate advice to accomplish astute estimates of the plan amount and of arrangement design.

- Facilitate the advice amid barter and account providers by demonstrating, application absolute measures based on the ISO9126 standard, the above akin of the applications delivered by the Service Centers.

After accepting evaluated the arch solutions in the market, Logica assuredly chose Metrixware’s System Code band-aid for use throughout the group. This accumulated best resulted from a pilot activity which accepted that System Code – through its affluence of use, its development abutment appearance and administration of appliance above – brings absolute added amount to Logica’s all-around action of Application Management, and integrates into Group strategy.

Christian AGUIRREGABIRIA, Industrial Director France, stated: “Deploying the System Code band-aid of Metrixware is traveling to accredit us to advanced the industrialization of our French account centers, to activate our abstruse teams to consistently advance software quality, and advance the babyminding of our affairs by bringing greater objectivity and accuracy to our customers”.

“Metrixware’s System Code band-aid is altogether in befitting with our new ‘One Logica’ strategy, that through its CONNECT program, aims to adjust methods and accoutrement above the altered countries in the group. In particular, the band-aid is traveling to accredit us to securitize the alteration of ability during the antecedent alteration phases, and agreement to our barter the above of our development plan produced at altered sites both onshore and offshore” added Jaoued AHMED, Global Operations Director of Logica, in allegation of the CONNECT program.
Beyond this abstruse choice, Logica and Metrixware intend to advance a abutting affiliation in appliance quality, to adduce to their barter – via the SQC – a different action of appliance above diagnosis, accumulation the articles of the editor with the casework of the integrator.

“More than the analogy of the amount and competitiveness of our solutions, I am captivated with our new key affiliation with the Logica group, we saw in Logica a aggregation apprenticed by the aforementioned professionalism and the aforementioned action as Metrixware, bringing calm our qualities and our corresponding ability will rapidly advance to actual advantages for all our customers” assured Rachid BOUMAZA, Chairman of Metrixware.

System Code, a different band-aid for all IT actors

System Code is the software apartment committed to IT Governance and Application Portfolio Management. It enables a accelerated abstruse appraisal of absolute appliance assets, to admeasurement their above and achievement in adjustment to analyze the a lot of pertinent enhancements.
Using the centralized advice in its appliance repository, System Code provides altered IT actors with the key advice all-important to ahead activity drift, administer risks and ascendancy the change of applications in ablaze of the business, financial, abstruse and animal challenges adverse IT organizations:

- IT and Development Directors: Governance and appliance portfolio administration dashboards
- Quality and Methods managers: Globally chase above objectives and the acclimation of the appliance abject (maintainability, changeability, architecture, account of standards, etc.)
- Application Manager: Manage the key achievement indicators of an appliance (quality, budgets, user satisfaction, criticality, etc.)
- Development and Maintenance Teams: Development aid (mapping, appulse analysis) and above ascendancy (programming rules, cipher quality) appearance anon chip into the plan ambiance application the SC for Eclipse and SC for Mainframe plug-ins.

» About Logica
Logica is a arch European casework company, employing 39,000 humans above 36 countries, including 9,000 in France. Logica’s ambit of activities includes administration consulting, arrangement affiliation and business and IT action outsourcing. Logica works carefully with its barter to advice them chargeless their abeyant to access efficiency, advanced advance and administer risks. Logica can calculation on its abysmal compassionate of altered sectors, its arete in technology and assembly as able-bodied as its ability in accumulation to advice its barter position themselves at the beginning of their corresponding markets. Shares in Logica are quoted on the London and Amsterdam banal exchanges (LSE: LOG ; Euronext: LOG). For added information: www.logica.com.

» About Metrixware
Since 1995, Metrixware (www.metrixware.com), French editor of the System Code software suite, provides its audience IT Governance and Portfolio Management solutions giving a affluent eyes of the accompaniment of their appliance assets, acceptance them with the aid of mapping solutions to analyze strengths and weaknesses, and to accomplish abreast administration decisions about aliment and development in
order to adjust IT accomplishments with accumulated action whilst against the economical and abstruse challenges.

Positioned in the Application Portfolio Management and IT Governance markets, Metrixware is today implementing solutions in accumulated accounts such as BNP Paribas, Generali, Société Générale, CNP Assurances, Banque de France, Alcatel Lucent, Orange Business Services, Caisse d’Epargne, etc.

Zineb AMRANI | METRIXWARE
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