I2S Business Solutions believes in building high
quality products and solutions, and we have developed
and marketed products both in India and abroad. Products
continue to be on our roadmap for the future and we will
be glad to assist you in a joint product development
venture. A few examples of where joint product
development would work:
- You have a product idea, and we can provide the
consulting and development services to make the
product a reality.
- You would like to extend our existing solutions to
markets that are large and that you have considerable
experience in. This will make sure we can reuse our
technology, to tap markets that were earlier
inaccessible.
- You would like to reduce your investment on
development, maintenance and support on product ideas
that you have.
In all these cases you could have us work with you on
a development or consultancy contract as well, but joint
product development gives you additional benefits:
- I2S’s return would be measurable in royalties as
well, so the initial cost would be considerably lower.
- This also promotes a greater buy-in from I2S,
since there is part ownership of the product.
- Additional design feedback and input is imperative
from I2S’s side, in architecture, in production, in
support and even in marketing.
The phases of product development can be broadly
classified as:
Product
Idea, Market Research and Plan
In
depth study of the market is made and a product idea is
conceived based on the study. A preliminary plan of the
product will be laid out explaining the product, the
target market, the longevity of the product and other
such vital details.
Product
Specification and Design
A detailed
specification of the product is laid out and the product
is designed based on the specifications. The Design
involves complete User Interface Design (I2S adheres to
Microsoft Windows User Interface guidelines), the class
design (I2S uses a variation of Booch methodology), and
the Product flow control design. The initial prototype
of the product is carried out in this phase. A constant
study of the market is made and the product
specification may change as the market need changes, but
I2S discourages any change in the specification after
more than 60% into the product development cycle and
will move the new features into the next release of the
product.
Product
Implementation
The coding of the
product is undertaken and the product is implemented.
The product will be split into milestones and the
product deadlines will be based on these milestones. At
the end of each milestone, the different modules of the
product is integrated and an integrated build is made
and tested.
Product
Quality Testing
I2S strongly
believes in Quality products and quality is of top
priority in every phase of the product development.
Quality is run in parallel with all the other phases,
and after every milestone a thorough quality testing is
done on the product. I2S will follow the Windows User
Interface guidelines for the User Interface testing and
the market understanding for testing the product as a
whole.
User
Manual and Technical
Documentation
Apart from the Online
help, a user manual will be written to explain the
complete working of the product. The user manual will be
written from the end-user's point of view and will
detail the steps to be taken to do each operation using
the product. The technical documentation will detail out
the technical characteristics of the product and how a
user with good technical know how can understand the
system better and fine tune the product for optimum
performance. The documentation will begin right from the
design stage and will be constantly updated throughout
the product development.
Product
Marketing
Marketing forms a very key
area of product development and will involve a lot of
resources. This may include packaging the product,
finding customers, providing promotional stuff like
product brochures, demo CDs etc., advertising the
product worldwide and providing continuous feedback on
the market reaction for the product.
Technical
Support and User Training
This
involves providing complete technical support to the
customer in knowing the product better and training him
on how to use the product. All support calls will be
answered and a knowledge base is built of the problems
faced by the customers that will help in answering the
repeated questions faster.
Product
Upgrade
I2S Software and Product
partner can participate together and invest their
respective resources in any one of the above phases of
product development as agreed upon by both the parties.
I2S works on royalty basis, and the percentage will
depend on the resource sharing.
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