Whether yours is a small or medium sized business (SME) or a large enterprise, your IT team is probably always overstretched. With ongoing maintenance and support, and small and large one-time projects, upgrades, and fixes, it is difficult (if not impossible) to take on other types of projects – projects that may drive the enterprise forward.
If your business is a web agency or web services enterprise, you can probably use some help! Of course, you understand what your customers want and need. You focus your effort into visualizing and conceptualizing ways to create a more attractive Internet presence, with seamless applications, aesthetic designs, and refreshing experience for your customers business. You strive to offer cutting-edge, innovative online reputation management and online engagement solutions for your customers. Still, there always seems to be more to do and you have to adapt to new technologies, changing trends and changing customer buying behavior.
When a business is considering a custom ERP project, it will typically start with discussions with the internal IT team. But often, the IT team is unable to accommodate the project. When you ask the IT team, you will hear one or more concerns or reasons for delay or downright refusal to take on the project.
This U.S. based Client is a start-up company, focused on a concept and software application that will unite the world of fantasy sports and sports gambling. The Client wished to capitalize on the growing popularity of fantasy sports and sports betting with a world-class platform, that would provide a unique perspective and make a positive difference in the sports and sports gambling community by encouraging social impact and community charitable outreach.
This Australia-based Client is start-up business and wishes to build a B2B eCommerce platform to align the needs of shop owners and suppliers. Its market vision is to identify and provide a transaction process for suppliers and shop owners using a B2B portal delivered via a mobile application.
If you have a small or medium sized business, and your team has some great ideas for software applications, or software products, software re-engineering, user experience design, or maybe even a mobile application, it is understandable that you would be frustrated! If you have an in-house IT staff, they are nearly always swimming against the tide. There is too much to do and too few resources and you may not have the skill set or training to tackle these types of products. But, IT consulting and expertise is costly, right?
Software product development is no small project! In order to be successful, the business needs more than an idea. Execution of that concept and the technical, quality, leadership and support skills and experience of a prospective IT partner are paramount. Any prospective IT consulting partner must have experience in developing a software product for market. In this article, we discuss five critical areas of consideration when selecting a software product development partner.
Does this sound familiar? Your business has a great idea for a software product, maybe even a mobile application, but you aren’t sure how to proceed. Your in-house IT team is well-respected but they are already overwhelmed with projects and ongoing workload and you aren’t sure what skills you will need to employ to adequately address your software product requirements.
Many businesses struggle to translate ideas into a reality but none of these struggles is more profound than the software product vision. Often, the business abandons a great idea for a mobile application or a software product that has great potential to improve and increase business. Usually the reason for this includes the cost, the time and effort required and the absence of the skills and training to conceive, design, develop, implement and maintain a software product.
When a business undertakes a Software Product Development project, software re-engineering, Mobile Application Development or any other software project, they often look to experts to provide consulting services, either because their IT team does not have the time or the knowledge to complete the project.
