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Maintenance and Support
Application Support and Maintenance Services
Get Professional App Management, Help Desk, and Evolution
ScienceSoft's support and maintenance services help to improve customer satisfaction, achieve maximum app availability, speed up backlog implementation, and reduce operational costs.
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Maintenance and Support
Our Service Promise in Numbers
Application support and maintenance services are aimed at ensuring that all types of apps are highly available, reliable, and relevant to your constantly evolving business needs. Since 2007, ScienceSoft delivers full-range IT maintenance and support services to clients from over 30 industries.
> 97%
application user satisfaction rate
< 40 sec.
for response on 90% of calls
< 8 h.
for a hot-fix deployment
< 1 w.
for a minor app upgrade
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For the past 6 years, ScienceSoft has been a reliable partner in supporting and maintaining our HR software product. They have fixed hundreds of bugs in the product’s performance since the start of our cooperation back in 2016 and keep modernizing HR on our demand, introducing new features and tweaking existing functionality to let us better cater to our growing client base.

Peter Hermann
CEO, ZEITundZUTRITT GmbH
Due to our business growth, we decided to outsource the continuous development, support and maintenance of our proprietary internal systems. ScienceSoft coordinated knowledge transfer, discovery of our internal systems, then transitioned into supporting those systems and taking on projects to evolve their functionality. We recommend them as a trustworthy partner with skilled technical specialists on board.

Luke Walther
Business Development Director, Give Back Wireless
ScienceSoft has been vital to our company’s growth in ecommerce over the last 3 years. We rely on the team for a variety of Magento support tasks, and they always deal with our problems fast. They are a very versatile company in terms of the number of services they provide. With their help, we’ve successfully upgraded our platform, improved our front-end UI, and developed a more efficient internal workflow to support our customers.

Jarod Joyce
Creative Director, Dot It Restaurant Fulfillment
ScienceSoft has been providing an excellent level of service maintaining the application’s AWS infrastructure, as well as deploying and configuring new Linux-based virtual machines and AWS cloud services. During our cooperation, ScienceSoft’s team has built a fault-tolerant and highly available application infrastructure with automatic crash recovery capabilities, which makes our web application stable and high-performing. We would certainly recommend ScienseSoft as a reliable service provider.

Gordon Seipold
CEO, 3steps2web
Looking for an Application Maintenance and/or Support Vendor?
ScienceSoft is ready to provide result-oriented and cost-effective support and/or maintenance services. We guarantee:
- Possibility of long-term cooperation with no risk of sudden service discontinuation.
- Experience with cutting-edge and legacy techs alike.
- Flexibility in service package assembling and pricing.
The Financial Times Includes ScienceSoft USA Corporation in the List of Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies 2022
ScienceSoft is one of 500 companies with the highest compound annual growth rate in revenue. This achievement is a result of our unfailing commitment to provide high-quality IT services and find best-value solutions to clients' needs.

The Scope of Our Services
L0
Guiding materials for users:
- Product and technical information.
- Manuals, FAQs.
- Knowledge base with convenient search.
- Continuous maintenance of all guiding materials.
ScienceSoft's proactive L0 services reduce the L1-L3 requests by 60%.
Pricing model: Fixed price – you pay a fixed fee for the services.
L1
- Receiving and registering requests submitted via all possible communication means.
- Prioritizing support requests.
- Efficient SOPs and ITSM processes.
- Solving basic user issues in under 10 min.
- Providing issue status updates according to an agreed SLA till resolution.
Pricing model: Price per ticket – we define the L1 ticket cost to be paid at the end of the month for the number of tickets we resolve.
L2
- Resolving even the most serious incidents in less than 8 hours.
- Administering application environment and user accounts.
- Optimizing software installation.
- Log investigation for issue root cause analysis.
Pricing model: Price per ticket – we define the L2 ticket cost and you pay at the end of the month for the number of tickets we resolve.
L3
- Identifying and fixing complex issues via swift changes to the code and database.
- Root cause issue resolution.
- Rolling out the most comprehensive patches and hot-fixes in less than 24h.
- Prompt correction of customization issues.
Pricing model: Monthly subscription fee – you pay each month for our continuous L3 support services at a reduced hourly rate.
Application evolution
- Updating existing functional modules.
- Developing new application features.
- Suggesting new features based on user feedback.
- Feasibility studies and ROI calculation.
- Adding software integrations.
- Application re-architecting, modernization.
- Introducing advanced app innovations.
Pricing model: T&M with a cap – we charge for hours & efforts spent and send invoice reflecting them at the end of the month.
Application security management
- 24/7 security monitoring, regular audits, incident troubleshooting.
- Scheduled app vulnerability and misconfiguration diagnostics.
- Detailed vulnerability reports.
- Security and penetration testing.
- Stress testing (simulation of DoS/DDoS attacks)
- Security improvements according to SecOps.
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Pricing model: Monthly subscription fee – you pay for our services each month at a reduced rate.
Application performance management
- 24/7 app performance monitoring to detect and resolve unfavorable trends.
- Regular app performance and usability testing (load, stability, scalability testing).
- Continuous performance and UX optimization
Pricing model: T&M with a cap – we charge for hours & efforts spent and send invoice reflecting them at the end of the month.
Application compliance management
- Regular review of compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS, GLBA and/or other regulations.
- Reporting on each compliance review.
- Proactive suggestions of updates in case of changes in the regulations.
Pricing model: Monthly subscription fee – you pay for our app maintenance services each month at a reduced rate.
Additional services for maintenance facilitation
CI/CD and DevOps implementation
- Applying the Infrastructure as a Code (IaaC) approach.
- Setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Ensuring test and update deployment automation.
- Migration strategy and plan tailored to your application needs.
- Cloud infrastructure configuration.
- Cloud-specific knowledge transfer after application migration.
Cloud resource management
- Examination of the cloud environment and identification of deficiencies.
- Resource consumption optimization to reduce cloud costs.
- On-demand cloud resource management.
- Continuous analysis of the entire IT infrastructure.
- Management of servers, network, cloud and on-premises data centers, and cloud services.
- 24/7 monitoring to avoid downtime.
Get a Price Tag on Your Tailored Set of Support and Maintenance Services!
Our seasoned business consultants will gladly help you assemble a custom package of services for your application needs. We will also provide cost estimations and suggest effective cost optimization options.
Our Success Stories

Web Application Support for a US Largest Marketing Agency
- 24/7 L2, L3 support of a .NET, React, and AWS solution.
- Proactive approach brought a 36% decrease in user-reported issues.
- App user satisfaction rate raised to 97%.

Maintenance and Support Services of a Bio Lab Product Driving GSK and AstraZeneca
- 10+ years of cooperation.
- Team of 8-29 .NET and Oracle specialists.
- Support team with industry-specific degrees.

Support and Maintenance for an Ecommerce Business with 40+ Online Stores
- Performance optimization, security testing, and redesign as part of maintenance.
- Experts in PHP, WordPress, and AWS.
- Services helped to improve website ranking and increase conversion.

Web and Mobile App Maintenance for MTV's Streaming Provider
- 5.5+ years of cooperation under T&M arrangement.
- Continuous maintenance and evolution of apps by 9 specialists.
- JavaScript, Java, and Objective-C experts.

Support and Maintenance of an AR-powered Advertising Solution
- 11+ years of cooperation.
- Applications based on AR and computer vision technologies.
- Customer calls C++ experts “an indispensable part” of their team.

Application Support Services for a US Telecom Company
- Support of a customer web portal.
- Help-desk experts helped to reduce fraudulent claims and attract more eligible users.
- Team of experts in PHP and React.

Support and Maintenance Services for a Scotland’s Government Agency
- 5+ years of cooperation: troubleshooting and migration.
- Reactive problem solving: critical issues are resolved within 1 hour.
- SharePoint and SQL farms configurations.

Maintenance and Support of a Deloitte-approved Mobile Banking App
- 6+ years of cooperation.
- Kotlin and Swift development teams.
- 7 complex blocks of innovative loyalty features added over 4 years of mobile app evolution.

Software Support Services for Global Advertising Company
- 8/5 L1, L2, L3 support services.
- Accumulation of ticket resolution info into a knowledge base to reduce the time on addressing similar issues in the future.
- Experts in PHP, Magento.
1. Analysis of your request (< 2 days)
We examine your business needs, app requirements, architecture, tech stack, functionality, and backlog of defects & change requests to define the scope of app support and maintenance services.
2. Application maintenance and support services planning, SLA preparation (~5 days)
We discuss the details of the needed services and formalize them in a service level agreement (SLA). Depending on the scope of app support and maintenance services rendered, the SLA may outline:
- App support terms: support hours e.g., 8/5, 12/5, 24/5, 24/7, required levels of support (L0-L3), size of a support team, communication channels, software used, KPIs, etc.
- App maintenance terms: app evolution roadmap, existing feature backlog, app performance requirements and expectations, planned security activities, KPIs, schedule, etc.
3. Responsibility transfer (~4 days)
Based on the SLA and its objectives, we work together with you and your team (or, possibly, with your previous vendor) to prepare standard operating procedures (SOPs) and instructions to stipulate all support and maintenance activities.
4. Support and maintenance launch (1 day) and continuous reporting
Our team gets down to providing the services outlined in the SLA. As part of our service, we provide clear and detailed reports, including:
- Reports on team productivity and service quality KPIs (service level reports, support team performance).
- Incident reports with root cause analysis.
- Security audit reports, test execution and testing summary reports
- Workload reports (actual versus planned).
- Existing app problems or potential risks.
- Revised risk management strategy, acceptability of the risks.
5. Scaling the service up or down (2-4 days)
At your request, we quickly scale our support and maintenance teams to better fit your needs. No complex or lengthy processes required - we just sign a short addendum to the main SLA.
KPIs for Result-Oriented Cooperation
ScienceSoft builds all its support and maintenance services around the KPIs defined in the SLA. Upon defining custom sets of goals to track the quality of our maintance and support services, we analyze information needs of each stakeholder and discuss the best means and frequency to communicate information. We track the KPIs’ fulfillment internally and send detailed reports at a schedule convenient for you.
What our KPI system typically includes
Note: We welcome KPI suggestions and tailor the metrics to each project individually.
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Continuous Improvement of Service Delivery
To make sure that our clients derive maximum value from our services, we perform quarterly roadmap reviews (stated business needs vs. current business needs; value we bring vs. the highest possible value). We also regularly analyze our experts' performance as well as your direct feedback to further cater our services to your individual business needs.
Technologies We Work With
Logging, monitoring and alerting tools
DevOps
Containerization
Automation
CI/CD tools
Monitoring
Web application testing tools
ISSUE
High costs of maintenance and support services?
Fix it with ScienceSoft
FIXED
Our smart issue escalation matrix, cloud resource optimization, and proactive issue resolution help achieve 1.5-2x cost reduction.
ISSUE
Rare updates and slow backlog implementation?
Fix it with ScienceSoft
FIXED
We roll out updates every 2-4 weeks and ensure their 40% smoother and faster deployment thanks to the CI/CD pipeline.
ISSUE
Lack of progress visibility and transparency?
Fix it with ScienceSoft
FIXED
ScienceSoft relies on mature KPI metrics, shares access to logging tools, and sends elaborate reports for full service clarity.
Keep Your Apps Up-To-Date & Value-Bringing!
Rely on ScienceSoft's scheduled app evolution, continuous security monitoring, prompt issue resolution, and data-driven app performance enhancement.