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PRODUCT ENGINEERING SERVICES Commercial Software
  Partnering with Software Product Companies
Today's competitive and fast-paced IT market calls for software product companies to focus on continuous product innovation. Developing new, emphatic and distinguished functionalities and getting them to the marketplace as early as possible has become a requisite to stay ahead of competition. However, these things are easier said than done. Some of the most successful product companies have adopted a hybrid approach to address these challenges -- one that leverages a seamlessly integrated partner ecosystem working in tandem with their own global engineering teams.
Sonata -- Product Development Credentials
Sonata has been providing Outsourced Product Development Services to some of the most innovative software companies since 1991. Leveraging its highly skilled and experienced Product Engineering talent pool, relentless focus on productivity, culture of innovation and a comprehensive array of services covering all aspects of the Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC), Sonata has helped software companies not only improve the efficiency of their engineering efforts, but also transform the way they do business.
Sonata's Outsourced Product Development Services draw upon its core strengths, outlined below:
Product company mindset : Sonata started off as a product company with over 25 successful products. This helps it "think products," understand the customer needs better and build better products.
Unmatched experience : Sonata has over 18 years of experience of working across the PDLC for all kinds of software companies -- fledgling, growing as well as mature clients.
Deep technology partnerships : Sonata has forged strong partnerships with technology leaders like IBM, Microsoft and Oracle. These partnerships are centered around helping product companies adopt new, cutting-edge technologies.
Engineering driven by insight : Sonata's Product Engineering expertise is complemented by over 15 years of helping enterprises implement software products. This uniquely equips it with deep practical insights on and an understanding of the end-customer needs, which can be channeled into building better products.
 
Wide Array of Services Specially Designed for Product Companies
The Sonata Edge
Faster Time-to-Market
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Highly skilled and experienced product development teams facilitate jump-starting product development initiatives, with a stellar retention record of over 90% in long-term engagements.
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Institutionalized knowledge management within the organization ensures systematic acquisition, dissemination and retention of knowledge within project teams.
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Experienced teams, process innovation, alliances with technology leaders and repertoire of re-usable assets -- SONNETs -- reduce product development time by up to 40%.
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Innovation Driven by Continuous R&D Investments -- Multiply the Benefits!
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Establishment of Centers of Excellence (CoEs), which keep a tab on new trends and technologies in the product development space -- SaaS, SOA, Web 2.0, Mobility, Open Source, Rich Internet Application (RIA), etc. -- and develop solution accelerators (SONNETs), reference architectures, components, tools and methodologies for de-risked adoption.
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Early adopter partnerships with technology majors that provide access to "pre-release" technologies, premium support and specialized technical training.
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Mature Product Development Processes
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Proven Agile Development framework -- Quantified Agile+ -- tailored to distributed development.
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Relentless focus on productivity, with committed Y-o-Y improvements in long-term engagements.
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Web-based portals and dashboards to facilitate "anytime, anywhere" visibility and collaboration among global product development teams.
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Rapid Business Transformation
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Ability to set up product CoEs offshore, deliver Proof-of-Concepts (PoC) and design solution architecture remotely helps customers improve their pre-sales efficiencies and turn-around time.
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Skills to implement and support software products remotely enable customers to eliminate product adoption barriers and also support multiple implementations simultaneously.
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Capability to provide offshore services on various aspects of product development and implementation allows clients to focus on identifying powerful differentiating functionalities in their products.
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