PRODUCT ENGINEERING SERVICES Commercial Software
Product Engineering
Having architected and delivered several software products successfully, both independently and with the backing of Outsourced Product Development engagements with a motley of software companies, Sonata has achieved a deep understanding of the critical engineering needs of a software product company, such as:
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A robust and flexible architecture that ensures scalability, extensibility and ease of sustenance
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Iterative and incremental development approaches that can accommodate changing requirements
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Rigorous QA that aids detection of defects earlier in the product lifecycle and reduces the cost of quality
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Sonata's Product Engineering Services straddle the entire spectrum of activities involved in Product Development. Its experienced team of architects helps deliver world-class product architectures, which address various aspects of a product like technology, scalability, extensibility and current as well as prospective non-functional software requirements, to clients. Sonata also adds value to product architecture through its deep knowledge of the latest concepts in the area, such as Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Sonata's development services leverage its extensive knowledge on most of the common Application Development platforms such as J2EE, .NET, Open Source, etc., as well as approaches specifically tailored to Product Development.
Sonata's Product Engineering clients benefit from the R&D efforts of its technology CoEs and alliance teams, which proactively acquire expertise on the latest technologies and develop architectural frameworks, re-usable components (Sonnets) and tools, all of which help reduce the time-to-market by up to 40%.
Sonata's Quantified Agile+ methodology adds to its experience of co-developing products with its clients' engineering teams, using Agile Techniques. Quantified Agile+ blends all the benefits of popular Agile Techniques like Xtreme Programming and SCRUM with Sonata's proven Global Delivery Model and SEI CMMi best practices.
Sonata's Product QA Services offer an exhaustive and objective testing approach to deliver world-class products. This also helps ISVs' internal engineering teams focus on adding powerful and differentiating functionality to their products or take other such strategic initiatives. Sonata offers a set of specialized services to product companies for testing functionality, performance, usability, localization, compatibility and deployment scenarios. Clients can draw on Sonata's accelerator for test automation -- SonnetTEST -- as well as innovative "shared services" delivery models for Performance and Compatibility Testing.
Sonata also provides offshore-based Sustenance Engineering Services to product companies. These services include end-to-end management of the products under sustenance and are backed by innovative commercial models, characterized by "risk-reward" pricing that aligns the support costs with product revenues for Sonata's clients. This provides an attractive option for software product companies to offer high-quality support to their customers who are on mature and "End-of-Life" product lines, while focusing on the development of new products capable of meeting emerging market needs. A consistent feature of all long-term Product Sustenance engagements of Sonata is a committed improvement in productivity and reduction in the cost of support on an Y-o-Y basis.
Sonata has also helped a number of software companies move their products to the latest technology platforms to expand market reach as well as stave off platform obsolescence. It offers services such as migration of databases, application servers, development environments, user interfaces as well as reporting platforms. Sonata's ability to provide such services is greatly enhanced by its "early adopter" partnerships with technology leaders that keep it abreast of the latest technologies much prior to their market release. These solutions and services leverage Sonata's specialized in-house tools and methodologies (such as Crème for reports migration and eNAbLE for development environment migrations) as well as third-party tools such as SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) and Oracle Migration Workbench.
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