Software production moves through stages, similar to markets and business climates. These stages allow companies to better understand their market and help them prepare for updates, enhancements and shifts in software viability and marketability. Many Products are being developed in a SAAS (Software As a Service) Model.

IbleSoft offers end-to-end product development services. While developing a new product we consider these points to create successful a product:

• Market Analysis: Before we create any product we conduct a market analysis including competitive analysis, business viability studies, cost benefit and ROI analysis, and technical due diligence.
• Proof of concept- It is a better choice to do proof of concept before we develop in full. This phase includes designing user interfaces, selecting technology, tools and feasibility testing.
• Best framework that can support agile.
• Easy  migration, globalization, automated testing and performance tuning are some of the services Aspire offers as part of product advancement activities

Our Agile process will help us:

• Reduce time to market
• Reduce development costs
• Integrate testing into the development process
• Reduce maintenance and support costs
• Launch in global markets faster and more cost effectively than in the traditional build-then-localize model

The transformation of a concept into a product goes through our well-defined development process aimed to deliver complete product life cycle solutions to our clients.

Our product life cycle is defined in six progressive stages:

• Vision map
• Product features and goals
• Risk management document
• Issues and bugs control

• Requirement definition
• Functional specification
• Product release plan
• Project schedule

• Detailed design
• Design reviews
• Test planning
• Updated schedule

• Features development
• Configuration management
• Testing code
• Documentation

• Test scenarios
• Bug fixing
• Risk Management plan
• User Acceptance test
• Auto test scripts

• Documentation
• Release notes
• User manuals
• Product release (could be Beta release)

Product Enhancement & Maintenance

Whether your company possesses a legacy system or a “Black Box” (Independently built system with no documentation) our staff can map your existing system and design product enhancements and maintenance plans around your existing architecture. This prevents you from having to “re-invent the wheel” as you can still use your existing technology in a safe and scalable environment.

For most product managers, the day their product is actually released into the market marks the end of product development activity. The reality is, this is only the beginning of a long maintenance and upgrade cycle. In fact, the post=development phase is the lengthiest phase in the development process. Once a product is released into the market, managers need to begin thinking about how to incorporate the feedback they receive into the next version of the product, to improve usability, user-friendliness, features and overall value. Software product maintenance activities can be broadly classified as such:

• Corrective Maintenance- reactive modification to correct discovered problems.
• Adaptive Maintenance- Modification to keep it usable in a changed or changing environment.
• Perfective Maintenance- Improve performance or maintainability.
• Preventive Maintenance- Modification to detect and correct latent faults.

Most enterprise products face a problem in supporting their installed base on legacy versions of the product. Software product maintenance needs may arise to:

• Correct errors
• Correct requirements and design flaws
• Improve the design
• Make enhancements
• Interface with other systems
• Convert to use other hardware
• Migrate legacy systems
• Retire systems
• Maintain control over the system's day-to-day functions
• Maintain control over system modification
• Perfect existing acceptable functions
• Prevent system performance from degrading to unacceptable levels

A significant investment needs to be made to maintain multiple versions of an old code-base, (many times on legacy technology platform) to support existing clients until they can be persuaded to migrate to newer versions of the product.

In considering our client requirements and inherent challenges in software product maintenance, we have devised innovative software product maintenance process model which focuses on:

Process Implementation

• Development of maintenance plans and procedures
• Establishing procedures for modification requests
• Implementing the CM (Configuration Management) process

Problem and Modification Tasks

• Initial analysis
• Problem Verification
• Developing options for implementing the modification
• Documenting the results
• Obtaining approval for modification option

Modification Implementation Task

• Performing detailed analysis
• Development, coding, and test of modification requests

Maintenance Review/Acceptance tasks

• Conduct reviews
• Obtain approval for modification

Migration Tasks

• Development of migration plan
• Notify users of migration plan
• Conduct parallel operations
• Notify user that migration has started
• Conduct post-operation review
• Ensure that old data is accessible

Software Retirement Tasks

• Develop a retirement plan
• Notify users of retirement plan
• Conduct parallel operations
• Notify user that retirement has started
• Ensure that old data is accessible

IbleSoft carefully outlines service level agreements (SLAs) requirements, customizing our maintenance process for unique client needs. We bring to each project a strong methodology for application maintenance, based on customized application maintenance and support methodology and our own proprietary Quality Management System (QMS) which is in line with ISO processes. Software product vendors can use our offshore maintenance services to continue to maintain their current products along with new application developments using flexible business models provided by IbleSoft. They can manage the ramp-up and scale-down of efforts that are required for peaks and troughs that are typical of a product over its maintenance cycle. IbleSoft enables you to deliver on your global initiatives at lower costs and drive future business growth.