{"id":14190,"date":"2017-07-31T15:25:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T15:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/application-management-outsourcing\/"},"modified":"2017-07-31T15:25:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T15:25:47","slug":"application-management-outsourcing","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/31058\/application-management-outsourcing-amo","title":{"rendered":"Application Management Outsourcing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_application_management_outsourcing_mean\">What Does Application Management Outsourcing Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Application management outsourcing (AMO) is the general management and support of an application by a third-party stakeholder. It is a particular type of application outsourcing that helps maintain standards for the use of an application in a given system.\n<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"techopedia_explains_application_management_outsourcing\">Techopedia Explains Application Management Outsourcing<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In practical terms, application management outsourcing can be part of a wide spectrum of outsourcing services that a company uses to create agile architectures. Third-party companies might help with software patches, version updates and even cost evaluations.\n<\/p>\n<p>Application management outsourcing reflects a greater burden on companies to support proliferating applications in-house. 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