Business Challenge
Market shifts, economic factors and increased competition often forces adoption of new business models to maintain competitive advantage. With the maturity of internet technologies and outsourced business models, our customer’s focus shifted to adopting a blended on-shore off-shore software engineering execution framework, to improve productivity and manage costs. Our customer’s (a leading on-line digital photo company) executive management decided to engage Efycaci in helping define a viable plan to implement this model.
Our Solution
Efycaci worked closely with the executive management to propose an offshore virtual captive engineering using a “BOT” (Build, Operate, and Own) model that would deliver the business metrics.
Business Value
Guaranteeing software engineering quality requires maintaining up-to-date test plans and proactively reviewing the plans to assess automation needs. In time, due to various factors, most notably time and resource constraints, cause test plans to go out-of-date and increase the cost of quality assurance with less than desired automation capabilities. Our customer’s (a leading on-line digital photo company) executive management decided to address this gap between current and desired quality goals within managed costs.
Efycaci worked closely with the executive management to define an outsourced virtual engineering model that would deliver the business metrics.
After the “Dot.com” bust investment for early stage business concepts became more difficult and when available came at significant dilution of ownership. Bootstrapping a business required ingenuity to raise and carefully manage operational capital.
The availability of matured near-shore and offshore destinations provided operationally and technically viable options. Efycaci’s own patent-pending software is being engineered in Chennai, India, since 2005.
Tactical ad-hoc prototyping requirements for business development and marketing functions, and usability exercises are often not adequately budgeted for, although they bring significant business value. Sometimes the constraint is not the budget but the availability of skilled resources to achieve time to market goals. Our partner’s customer (a leading publishing company) wanted to re-engineer the user experience of their authoring applications.
We proposed an iterative prototyping model to collaboratively work with the user community, to capture all usability requirements and use case scenarios, and develop intuitive, well laid out, aesthetically appealing, and user-friendly interfaces for the authoring applications.
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