Global Product Development

Solution

Ascendum's Global Product Development offering specializes in helping companies that desire to develop and offer a software product as part of their core service to their customers.  This includes Independent Software Vendors (ISV's), domain leaders (e.g. a keyboarding learning solution from Cengage) and non-software companies. 

Development of a commercial (off-the-shelf package or hosted) software is quite different from building an IT application for internal consumption.

Ascendum has helped a large number of companies successfully build software products.  Leveraging its global presence, Ascendum manages development for many well-known software products that utilize different technologies, serve different industries, have different budgets and time to market constraints, and provide different functionality to their end customers.

Ascendum's Global Product Development practice offers a full life cycle development including:

• Product Feasibility Studies
• Business Plan Development
• Incubation Services for Start-ups
• Product Roadmap Development
• Prototype or Proof-of-Concept development
• Product Development Solutions
• Architecture Assessment(s)
• Product Quality Assurance and Testing
• Release Management, Maintenance, Support, Hosting, and Training Solutions
• Strategic Talent Management

Ascendum uses a four-phased approach to address the lifecycle needs of Product Development including: (1) Assessment, (2) Proof of Concept (POC), (3) Launch and (4) Support/Maintenance.

Ascendum's Product Development solution offerings can help with challenges at all stages of a typical product development cycle (Ideation, Development and Maintenance):

• Product Ideation:
  • Determine if a product idea or a concept is feasible
  • Develop of a business plan
  • Provide incubation services for new technology based product start-ups (our parent company, Vora Ventures offer high tech incubators worldwide)
  • Create or update the roadmap for a new or existing products
• Product Development and Delivery:
  • Meet aggressive time to market constraints
  • Build pre-production prototypes or a proof-of-concept
  • Quickly scale qualified development and QA/Testing teams
  • Deliver to a continuous need for skilled personnel in all areas of software development with the required knowledge and experience with the tools and technologies
  • Define the right architecture to capitalize on market opportunities, trends in technology and provide configurable products that meet the requirements of broad markets and industries
  • Build the product using right balance of dedicated onshore-offshore resources
• Product Maintenance and Support:
  • Handle maintenance and support (Tier1, Tier2 and Tier3) for products

Business Value

Ascendum's Global Product Development practice can help our clients bring new products to market quickly while meeting their budget constraints.  Once the product has been developed and launched, our worldwide team of skilled professionals can reduce your costs to maintain, deploy and supporting your product. Most importantly, it allows the client's core team to focus on product management, strategy, marketing and sales.

Toolset Excellence

Ascendum's seasoned and certified consultants maintain full lifecycle experience in developing software products, including needs assessment, requirements analysis, architecture, design, development, deployment, hosting, support and knowledge transfer. Our flexible delivery model is built on a strong commitment to customer service and quality, reinforced by a high level of management oversight. Our deep knowledge of a broad set of enterprise platforms, applications and techniques facilitates a speedy return on investment.