Product Development and App Development Are NOT the Same

NO! Product Development is NOT the Same as App Development

What’s the Big Deal? Isn’t Product Development the Same as App Development?

OK, I’ll admit it. Last week, I nearly got kicked out of a nice restaurant in the city. Why? Because my friend, Lucy was telling me about her company’s business decision to build a software product, and she said this, “Our team can handle it. We do application development all the time.” That statement was all it took to drive me over the edge. Call me crazy, but I have lived through enough so-called software product development projects to know that, without the right team and skill set, the project is doomed to fail. No, I am NOT being overly dramatic!

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Case Study: MS Azure-Based Multi-Tenant ERP App for Multi-Location IT Rental Business in India

The client is located in India and has been in business for nearly thirty (30) years. Its core business is the rental of IT hardware and equipment and support services for that equipment. The client has seven locations across India and employs more than 200 team members supporting customers across India. The client wished to develop a new application to support a multi-tenant architecture and sell the application as a solution to other companies in the rental business. The existing application was not scalable, and it was missing core components and architecture to support multi-tenant use.

Elegant MicroWeb worked with the client team to define and document requirements and a road map for the implementation of this new multi-tenant enterprise-wide ERP application. The solution is a cloud-based, multi-tenant system based on MS Azure, which can be accessed from any one of the client branches. The solution is designed to enable roll out of this solution to client customers in the future. The project was completed on time and on budget with seamless migration of data from the old system and no business disruption. The project outcome provided positive impact in the areas of productivity, user adoption and satisfaction and accuracy of reporting and planning.

Global IT Delivery Models and Software Development

Expert Software Development and Delivery Models for All

Custom Software Development, Global IT Delivery Models. It’s All Possible!

Whether your market is local or global, the business world is competitive and you can’t afford a misstep in the market. Technology is the underpinning of productivity and workflow, so if you are using software, you will need skilled software development and a service provider that can assist with integration, infrastructure support, and other technology initiatives. While your IT team may be very skilled, if your organization is like most, IT is sorely strained for resources and they are trying to do everything from producing custom reports to maintaining networks and hardware and creating custom apps that serve users.

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Software Product Development Made Easy!

Make Your Software Product Development Project a Real Success

Software Product Development is NOT the Same as Standard App Development!

If your enterprise wants to create a software product for the consumer or business market, your executive team may want to hand over the project to an internal IT team. If your in-house IT team is up to the challenge, that’s great. But, for most enterprises, the prospect of creating a software product for market is daunting and typically results in cost and time overruns and does not succeed.

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Software Product Development is NOT the Same as Software Application Development

Software Product Development is NOT the Same as Software Application Development

If your business is considering a software product development project for the consumer market or to build an app for internal use, you must consider one thing, above all else, before you start looking for a software product development company. There is a distinct difference between software application development and software product development, and if you choose a partner who does not understand this difference, your project is not likely to succeed.

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Case Study: Performance Management, Benchmarking Product Development & Maintenance

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Elegant MicroWeb created a solution for a performance management and benchmarking consulting business to provide a data-secured, web-based Performance Monitoring, Improvement and Analysis solution with performance optimization tools designed around the principles of knowledge and activity-based management.

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Case Study: Performance Management, Benchmarking Product Development & Maintenance

A performance management and benchmarking consulting business in Glasgow, Scotland asked Elegant MicroWeb to create a new solution. The consulting company had outgrown the simplistic reporting and analysis foundation provided by standard office tools and spreadsheets, and was concerned about the security of proprietary and confidential data and process models.

Elegant MicroWeb undertook a project to create a new solution that would produce clear, concise results, reports and direction so that consulting company customers could easily adapt and develop appropriate strategies and market direction enabling the business to reduce the time required to engage and complete a consultancy project. The resulting Performance Monitoring, Improvement and Analysis Tool provides integrated web-based performance optimization tools designed around the principles of knowledge and activity-based management.

Case Study: UK Online Petition Management for eGovernance

An internet community, market research, consultation and eDemocracy solution provider in the UK engaged Elegant MicroWeb to design and develop a solution to manage online petitions for eGovernance. The business focuses on thought leadership and on gathering feedback and opinion to help government and private organizations make sustainable decisions. The solution allows patrons to weigh in on topics, causes and issues of common interest.

Elegant MicroWeb worked closely with the business team from concept through solution design, development and implementation. The solution includes an administrative interface to manage petitions, accept and reject petitions, publish and email results. The User (client) interface, allows users to create, search and view petitions, sign a petition, open and close petitions and view rejected petitions. The solution was built for Windows operating system, on a .Net framework with a SQL Server back end.

Case Study: Customer Loyalty Software Product Widget for UK eConsulting, Market Research Firm

Elegant MicroWeb worked with a UK eConsulting, Market Research business to design a web-based widget to measure customer satisfaction and increase customer loyalty. Customers were asked just one question and the responses were analyzed to enhance and improve products and services offered by the organization over the period. In order to meet business objectives the widget had to be easy to configure, and easy to promote and use to obtain maximum responses. Personalized emails were sent, with a unique URL so the users could respond without the need to register. Feedback request could be offered via various web channels.

Elegant MicroWeb analyzed requirements, and designed and built a widget to allow customer managers to create just one question – loyalty question. Once a question is created, customer manager (administrator) can select respondents, design personalized email and rating scale for participant response. Response tracking processes allowed the business to follow-up non respondents and track responses. App also included response analysis and categorization to measure customer loyalty index over the period of time.

Case Study: Customer Loyalty Software Product Widget for UK eConsulting, Market Research Firm

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Elegant MicroWeb worked with a UK eConsulting, Market Research business to design a web-based widget to measure customer satisfaction and increase customer loyalty. Customers were asked just one question. Responses were analyzed to enhance and improve products and services over the period. The widget had to be easy to configure, and easy to promote and use. Personalized emails were sent, so users could respond without the need to register. Feedback request could be offered via various web channels to maximize participation.

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