e-Zest itself being a ISV during initial days of its corporate life understands challenges for ISVs Some of challenges ISVs face
Some of the challenges are:
- Demanding customers (Constant changes in requirements)
- Shrinking product life cycle
- Reduced time to market
- Higher flexibility
- Sharp focus on customer support
- Intense competition
- Need for independent testing
- Access to Product-savvy and domain-savvy product design and development talent
- Multiple versions for different Customer segments to be maintained at any point in time
- Managing product licensing and securing software to avoid unauthorized usage
These challenges severely affect ISVs ability to compete, sustain and win market share. To address these challenges e-Zest leverages its vast experience in software product life cycle management & offers following services to ISVs:
Product Consulting
- Outsourced Product Development (OPD) Services
- Offshore Product Enhancement, Maintenance and Support Services
- Product Migration and Porting Services
- Independent Software Product Testing services
- Product Performance Engineering Services
- Dedicated Offshore Development Centers (ODCs) for product development with Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) option
- Solution Architecture consulting
- Enabling Software as a Service (SaaS) – ASP Model
e-Zest also offers Value Added Software Product Services to its ISVs clients including:
- Design and development of Software Product Website (Demo Download, Online Product Purchase, Product Support)
- Content Writing for Product Manuals
- Content Writing for product Help
- Product Licensing Consulting and Programming
- Anti-Piracy Consulting and Programming
- Software Demo, Shareware, ShrinkWrap Management
- Professional Software Product Setup design and programming
e-Zest value proposition for ISVs
- Product-savvy and domain-savvy development talent
- A sizeable pool of high end architectural, design and testing skills and flexible and dynamic development environments
- Investments in product development centric tools
- Creative commercial contracts which mitigate the risks for the ISV looking to explore the offshore opportunity. Such contracts includes terms of intellectual property protection, and flexible pricing mechanisms
- Rapid team mobilization
- Cost Savings due to offshore operations
