Review and maintenance:

Once a system is fully implemented and being operated by end users, the maintenance
function begins. Systems maintenance is the monitoring, evaluating and modifying of
operational Information systems to make desirable or necessary improvements.
Maintenance activity is important for following reasons:

- To find out failures and problems that arises during the operation of a system.
- For the post implementation review process to ensure that newly
implemented systems meet the systems development objectives established
for them.
- For a periodic review or audit of a system to ensure that it is operating
properly and meeting its objectives. - To make modifications to a system due
to changes in the organization or the business environment.

This is an on-going process which ensures that the system meets the objectives set
during the feasibility study, that it is accepted by users and that its performance is
satisfactory. There are four categories of maintenance activities on practice such as:
• Corrective Maintenance
• Adaptive Maintenance
• Perfective Maintenance
• Preventive Maintenance
Corrective Maintenance
The objective of corrective maintenance is to remove errors or bugs from the software,
the procedures, the hardware, the network, the data structures, and the documentation.
Corrective maintenance activities include both emergency repairs (firefighting) and
preventive (or corrective) repairs. For example, maintenance programmers are
concerned with such tasks as removing residual software bugs, improving the integrity
and reliability of the programs, streamlining and tightening data