Camwood launches cloud service for application management

Application Lifecycle Manager will help Tube Lines upgrade the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly underground lines

Application logisitics specialist Camwood has launched a cloud service, called Application Lifecycle Manager (ALM), giving firms real-time information on the status of their entire portfolio of applications.

One customer of the service, Tube Lines, explained that ALM would provide immediate and accurate visibility on the status of its applications as well as highlighting application interpendencies, thereby enabling more effective migration of software, such as the move to Windows 7.

Tube Lines is responsible for the maintenance and upgrade work on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly tube lines, but also provides other tube network services including the Emergency Response Unit (ERU).

Tube Lines project management officer Bhadresh Sachania said that Camwood’s ALM “allows us to understand how [our applications] are being used and by whom”.

As well as integrating with Camwood’s other software suites, ALM can integrate with third-party ticketing systems, databases and discovery tools.

Camwood CTO Tony Fones said: "It can take many months from initial installation before applications are ready for use.

"The software might be stuck waiting for licence keys, or waiting for IT staff to be ready to support it.

"For example, certain banks can take six months to get applications to the stage where they're ready to be deployed onto a desktop system or a Citrix server.

"ALM gives complete transparency of where your applications are in their lifecycle, enabling staff to better manage these applications.

"Further ALM updates will include an interface into licence management and sustainability data."