Independent software vendors

e-Zest itself being a ISV during initial days of its corporate life understands challenges for ISVs Some of challenges ISVs face including:

• 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