ISV
For ISVs, Managing product lifecycles has never been more challenging. With increasing diversity and faster go-to-market requirements ensuring that products meet dynamic business needs of ISVs is becoming increasingly difficult. As a result CXOs and Senior VPs of technology companies face these challenges:

  Evolving business models that are able to address the requirements of the On-Demand world. As managed services blur the line between products and services, development and delivery models need to change.
  Extracting maximum ROI from the engineering $ budgeted. Extract the best productivity from global development teams. Define and implement successful agile development processes. Make flexible and robust products faster.
  Have a definite plan for maintaining and supporting older product versions being used by a sizeable customer base with minimal maintenance budgets.

TAKE works as a seamless extension of your in-house R & D and Product Development teams to deliver a world-class product lifecycle experience. With more than 50% of our customer-base being ISVs in every technology category, exceptional technology skills, TAKE has the experience and know how to support your most previous investment...your Product IP!

TAKE specializes in a set of unique service delivery techniques that helps ISVs experience best-in class development services.

  Virtual offshore development teams with overlapping time-zone based development for day to day communication and coordination gives our customers the flexibility and comfort as though the teams were their own in-house teams.
  Easy ramp up, ramp down of team size based on Product Go-to-market teamlines. Peak teamsize during development and lesser team sizes during maintenance cycle.
  Same set of development team members available for Support and Maintenance ensuring intact product knowledge capture.
  'QA-only' services - Customer's in-house team does development and TAKE takes up independent testing (almost 24 X 7 product development) Faster time-to-market.

SPECIFIC SERVICES FOR VARIOUS TYPES OF ISVs:

Newly Founded Startups

Early-stage ISVs or newly funded ISVs need to get to the market fast, reduce product development costs(utilizing maximum $$ for sales and marketing) and have a development strategy that supports quick releases to show to investors and prospects. TAKE can help to

  Reducing risks at each stage of the product launch.
  Take your products to the market faster, keeping "burn" rate low.
  Provide visibility and control over product development.

Steady State ISVs

Companies that are mature-stage ISVs need to balance growth and profits. TAKE's services provide the processes and delivery models for ongoing sustainenance of deliveries. This allows them to focus on strategic initiatives, while development and maintenance processes are efficiently and cost effectively managed by TAKE. Some of TAKE's services include -

  Full lifecycle product development, enhancements, maintenance and support for older product lines.
  Multiple product releases more efficiently with a flexible resource model.
  Testing and QA services.
  Technical Support.

Ongoing Support for ISVs

TAKE helps ISVs meet product release deadlines, by leveraging offshore software development and outsourcing. TAKE can help in -

  Offshore Professional Services Teams for customization of product, not part of the standard product releases.
  Re-platform software products.
  Institute best practices in:
                  Product release management.
                  QA and testing.
                  Product maintenance.
  Reduce costs of technical and customer support.

For more information on our ISV specific services, please contact us at isv_services@TAKE-es.com.