Software Product Development
iBoss Tech Solutions is a dependable service provider of software product development services on a turnkey basis. We develop, implement, operate and supports innovative software solutions that meet your needs and is committed to provide offshore software product development services supporting full lifecycle product development, including product conceptualization, product realization, QA & testing, migration software services, and professional services.
Our team comprises of specialists in a wide variety of trades that include Project Managers, Architects, Designers, Programmers and Analyzers.
Having such a strong potential, our team is capable of solving a wide range of complex tasks on offshore software product development keeping the required development Standards for Change Requests, Software Configuration Management, Functional & Detail Design Specification Guidelines and Design Reviews. At the same time, if you have a product already built, our programmers can code the software component too, making the best use of the tools and technologies available.
Product Conceptualization & Realization
Product Conceptualization
iBoss Tech Solutions has Project Managers who are very well versed with the Agile Method of project management and can accustom to your methodology. The software product development team can apply bright ideas and make your software product a great success. They can conceptualize a software product for you that can both satisfy the changing demands of the market and deliver product value to the end customers of your product using the most user-friendly technology solution.
The conceptualization would include product research, prototyping and technology that we would use to develop your product.
Product Realization
We believe that the realization of a good software product is completely dependent on a great idea, since it is the idea that would give birth to a product prototype which the customer can use for evaluation and testing and then a product that would be ready to be shipped.
We always aim to fasten the software product realization process for you and enable market-relevant releases.
Basic business assumptions will be challenged at this stage of offshore product development and others will be reinforced.
The product realization stage is a constant evolving process. After project conceptualization, product realization involves building what was conceptualized. In order to successfully realize the vision, you must have all the pieces in place.
Product Migration and Porting
With continuous development of technology, it is becoming vital to enhance compatibility of your products across different platforms to be called a dynamic business.
Since, we understand this very well; we can address the compatibility challenges faced by your product with our software migration and porting services.
We have experience in planning, managing and executing porting projects carefully and our migration services can help you re-evaluate your business needs for your clients, visualize product architecture and re-engineer products using the latest available technology.
Product Localization
Operating in a single market is no longer a feasible option for many businesses today.
iBoss Tech Solutions is experienced in the localization of your product, and can help you plan your offshore product development across other language markets too.
We Can:
- Test your product on various scenarios across different language markets
- Help you to prepare your product documentation to suit your market needs.
While many software service providers focus on only user interface testing, iBoss Tech Solutions can provides you a full range of globalization services including consulting, development, testing, translation, localization testing and technical support.
iBoss Tech Solutions localized consulting covers localized architecture design and localized product development that further covers locale-specific customization and unicode enabling; and our localized testing addresses functionality, usability, interoperability, performance and scalability among multi-lingual platforms. We have understanding of dual language program development and have worked on French/English Dual Language Programs using .Net functionalities.
Product Maintenance and Support
For most product managers, the day their product is actually released into the market is end of offshore product development activity. The scary thing, though, is that product release isn't the end; it's usually only the beginning of a long maintenance and upgrade cycle. In fact this stage where most of the products spends their majority of life-period.
Once a product is out in the market, managers need to begin thinking about how to incorporate the feedback they receive into the next version of the product, to improve usability, user-friendliness, features and overall value.
Software product maintenance activities can be broadly classified into
- Corrective Maintenance- Reactive modification to correct discovered problems.
- Adaptive Maintenance- Modification to keep it usable in a changed or changing environment.
- Perfective Maintenance- Improve performance or maintainability.
- Preventive Maintenance- Modification to detect and correct latent faults.
Most enterprise products face a problem in supporting their installed base on legacy versions of the product. Software product maintenance need may arise to
- Correct errors
- Correct requirements and design flaws
- Improve the design
- Make enhancements
- Interface with other systems
- Convert to use other hardware
- Migrate legacy systems
- Retire systems
- Maintaining control over the system's day-to-day functions
- Maintaining control over system modification
- Perfecting existing acceptable functions
- Prevent system performance from degrading to unacceptable levels
A significant investment needs to be made to maintain multiple versions of an old code-base, many times on legacy technology platform to support existing clients until they can be persuaded to migrate to newer versions of the product.
Considering our client requirements and inherent challenges in software product maintenance, we have devised an innovative software product maintenance process model which focuses on:
Process implementation
- Development of maintenance plans and procedures
- Establishing procedures for modification requests
- Implementing the CM (configuration management) process
Problem and modification tasks
- Initial analysis
- Problem Verification
- Developing options for implementing the modification
- Documenting the results
- Obtaining approval for modification option
Modification implementation tasks
- Performing detailed analysis
- Development, coding, and test of modification requests
Maintenance review/ acceptance tasks
- Conduct reviews
- Obtain approval for modification
Migration tasks
- Development of migration plan
- Notify users of migration plan
- Conduct parallel operations
- Notify user that migration has started
- Conduct post-operation review
- Ensure that old data is accessible
Software retirement tasks
- Develop a retirement plan
- Notify users of retirement plan
- Conduct parallel operations
- Notify user that retirement has started
- Ensure that old data is accessible
iBoss Tech Solutions takes service level agreements very seriously and can customize your maintenance process for your unique needs. We develop your product with a strong methodology for application maintenance, based on customized application maintenance and support methodology which is in line with ISO processes.
Software product vendors can use our offshore Product Maintenance services to continue to maintain their current products along with new application developments using flexible business models provided by us. They can ramp-up and scale-down the number of offshore product development engineers on the project over the maintenance cycle too which itself reduces significant costs.
Product Extensions
Companies today are trying their best to near customer’s satisfaction by extending new features and functionalities to their existing software products and also to increase the life of their products in this constantly changing economy.
The impact of a good product extension can prove to be fatal to the competitors and change the world upside down for a company that believes in doing what they do the best.
The software product extension involves keeping the information for upcoming software product version and retaining the information for permanent data transfer. Together with planning an extension on the existing product and recording the actions to be taken, we also lay our efforts in improving the quality of existing software product.
Another important feature of our product extension service is that we extend product design and scope for cross-platform integration that include web and smart devices such as mobile phones and smart cards.
Product Engineering and Re-Engineering
Your successful deployment and engineering of the product may not be the end to offshore product development at several occasions. A demand for new features, functionalities and improved performance will come as a part of the software product development. Since, it is difficult for businesses to keep upgrading software due to lack of resources, people, money and time, especially in this economy where we see downsizing companies struggling hard to keep up their employee numbers, there is a need for businesses like ours to provide you with the most cost-effective solutions for re-engineering.
The need for re-engineering on the same software product includes sustained porting engineering, product engineering and quality-engineering services.
You often must have seen that your customers have made major customizations and enhancements to the older product versions due to which migration to the newer version becomes difficult. In these cases, iBoss Tech Solutions provides quality re-engineering services taking over full support of the older versions, including the source code and the version control environment, and dedicating a team to support end-of-life products.
Our Product Re-Engineering Services include:
- Maintenance of the code base
- Bug fixes and release patches
- Custom feature/functionality enhancements
- Re-engineering for porting, migrating, or upgrades