Services : Professional Services : What
can be outsourced effectively
In principle, almost every activity within
the design, development and maintenance lifecycle of a product can
be outsourced to us. Following are some activities that can be outsourced
to us very effectively:
Having a
QC team which is separate from the development team is a highly
recommended practice. Product testing may requires both domain and
technology expertise. Our domain specialists understand your product
functionality, develop test plans, gather test data and work with
the technology team to execute these tests. Testing may be performed
manually, or when considered necessary, we could use automated testing
tools like Rational test suite to speedup the future Regression
Testing process. Test environments can be created for Stress and
Load testing.
Testing is often a resource intensive activity. Involving us in
this activity would free up your core in-house resources for new
development.
Maintaining
older versions of a product, and supporting its customer base is
always a challenging activity. Although critical, it consumes crucial
organizational resources. Customers using these product versions
may report bugs, request for some enhancements, and expect to be
serviced till the time that they decide moving to the latest product
release. Even migrating installations from old to new release can
be a challenge. Data need to be ported and all the specific customization
issues need to be handled.
All-e can take over the responsibility of maintaining all old versions
of your products. Our team could work to provide fixes, enhancements
and the migration path.
Ever increasing
number of releases of system software like operating systems and
databases keep product organizations always on toes. Making sure
that the product is compatible with new releases, adapting the product
to these new releases, and porting them to diverse hardware platforms
is a challenge. Outsourcing such activities will help your in-house
team stay focused on the upcoming product releases.
The modern
day technologies enable us develop products as a set of components.
Applets, OCX, Visual components, etc. which have very specific technical
and functional specifications, can be very effectively outsourced.
Their nature makes acceptance testing rather easy.
Localizing
your products to cater to the specific statutory and taxation needs
of different countries could be an important factor in ensuring
the product acceptance. Doing this activity at the same time creates
as many versions of the product. Maintaining these versions and
providing technical support to the client and partner base across
these countries can be a daunting task. All e Technologies could
provide you the services needed to achieve this.