Services for software application developers:
Product strategy and roadmap. When beginning to build a product, the key question in determining what to build is not what your customers need today, but what will they need when your product is ready to be delivered. We can help you ensure that your product suite is aligned with what most analysts and industry experts agree are inexorable trends, namely towards more real-time automated extended enterprises, and make sure that your products satisfy your customers needs.
Technology requirements gathering and analysis. We can help you identify the right technologies to leverage and make sense of the alphabet soup: J2EE, .Net, XML, Web Services, and so on, and help you ensure that you choose the right technologies to underpin your application functionality.
Partner/vendor selection and engagement. Deciding what to make vs what to buy is a critical part of any product development planning cycle. Why re-invent the wheel when the same functionality is or will be available at low cost and high quality? Why expend valuable resources on functionality that is or soon will be a commodity? To what extent are open source components an option? We can help you focus your team on those features that will differentiate your company, and identify those partners on whom you can rely for the rest.
Product development infrastructure and methodologies. We can help you deploy the right technologies in house, train your technical people, and make sure your development environment is set up for success: delivery of high-quality product on-time and on-budget.
Deployment, delivery and customer service methodologies. Your work is not complete when your product is out the door. You must serve your customers by helping them deploy and manage their installation, and we can help you ramp up your professional services organization to make your customers successful.