At Envizon we provide services to refractor your existing solution and productize it. We study your existing in house Applications that you have built that practically meets your requirements. We study the gaps it has to become an off the shelf product which can be sold to similar products.
Case Study
|
 |
The client is a leading BPO establishment. The client had a legacy system developed inhouse over the years which was rich in domain but weak in architecture and implementation to suite customers in similar space. The client benefited tremendously from the legacy system and wanted to productize it to sell it to similar businesses.
Challenge -
The client didn't know where to start in its effort to generalize the legacy system for it to be an off the shelf product. The development team was not from product industry and was not following any process as such. The application was developed on an incremental basis and didn't have any documentation. The code was not at all generalized and hard-coded at a lot of places to suite their environment. There was no configuration management system, Problem Tracking system or any QA system in place.
The client was needed help
- In educating the in-house team the difference between regular off the shelf product Vs customized solution
- In educating the team the importance and the benefit of following a proper process.
- In identifying a suitable development process.
- In understanding the architecture of the current system.
- In Re-factoring the existing system so that there are no areas that are specialized only for their environment.
- In redesigning the system so that it becomes scalable and adaptable.
- In setting up a QA framework for testing the product.
- In coming out with Help files.
Envizon engaged with them and had discussions their core team making them understand the difference in approach required to build products. Envizon found that a use case driven approach was more suitable for their purpose and helped the team prepare use case documents from the existing system. Envizon then helped the client form a documentation team and a QA team that used the Use Case documents as their reference. Multiple brain storming sessions with the team gave them direction to form design documents. We helped them setup their checkin checkout process and also the defect tracking process. Envizon also set their process and guideline for refactoring their existing code and the areas that need to be identified.
- Our services helped the client quickly ramp up with the product they wanted to build.
- It gave them a proper way to approach towards their goal.
- They were able to use the existing system and refactor it to build the product.
- They were able to use their existing technical team which earlier they thought could not build products.
- Our approach helped them discover the power of their own resources at hand which not only made the team much stronger but also resulted in lot of cost saving.
Other B2B Productization Services Provided by Envizon
- Training the developers for UML
- Setting up configuration management system and their defect management system
- Product management process.
- Test plans, test cases and a formal QA Process.
