The Product Engineering Services (PES) practice focuses only on Product companies (ISV’s). We cater to the needs of start-up’s, mid-size and established long-term players. Our offerings have evolved to suit the needs of our customers, and we seek to enhance the same as we keep discovering new ways of better servicing your needs. With offerings like support & maintenance, product retirement, extended team models (providing enhancement, maintenance, & QA services), product localization & internationalization new product development and product reengineering, the PES team ensures that we have a solution for all your needs. Inspite of being a services company, we have invested substantially in R&D and have a dedicated team working on our own home-grown product – the Blue Print Foundry (BPF) which forms the central grid for our Solution BluePrint (SBP) methodology. BPF is a single environment within which it is possible to do Business Process Modelling using BPMN, design using standard UML notation and a set of profilers that generate code for a variety of target environments.

The PES team has expertise in various Product Development Approaches like MDA, RUP, Agile MDA, Scrum, Extreme Programming, Waterfall, Co-development, etc with expertise in product development methodologies, project management, risk management, change management and quality assurance to architecture and standards, testing procedures, release management and support methodology.

Zensar product development practice comprises of resources with product mindset and team structure and engagement model, which works as an extension of your team.

Rationale

Product companies are typically in the following situation:

• Product to be evolved from concept to implementation.
• Once deployed, the product has to be updated in terms of functionality and technology to keep up with the market needs & support the existing customers
• There are tremendous cost pressures & extreme competition
• Product roadmap has to be kept in mind to ensure that it is ahead of competition – different features, technologies, etc
• Plenty of time money & resources spent in activities like version & implementation support, QA & testing, bench cost, overheads

Product offshoring@Zensar

• Zensar customers have saved millions of dollars in costs, apart from reducing the time-to-market drastically.
• Initial projects were on-shore, proof-of-concept works
• Long term engagement resulted in substantial increases in efficiency, quality and reduced Total Cost of Ownership
• Customers feel comfortable in sharing their IPRs, designs, source codes, etc. with Zensar due to a no-compete guarantee

Benefits

Companies can concentrate on ’core competencies’:

• Concentrate on product roadmap and strategy, feature development, funding etc
• Outsource high bandwidth consuming activities like production, support and testing
• Avoid high overheads and resource cost
• Improve time to market and benefit from reduced cost

The Zensar offshore extension to the product team

• Takes care of resource requirements, random requests for features, fixes, etc
• Ability to scale up resources and ramp-down on request
• Provides process advantage with respect to products
• Absorbs all operational issues like legalities, cash flow, etc
• Provides flexible engagement models