Companies worldwide are deploying emergent information technology to mission critical areas, in a bid to enhance efficiency, reliability and responsiveness to markets and customers. These include Supply Chain Visibility and Optimisation, Distribution and Warehouse Management, Sales Force Automation, Business Analytics and so on.

Issues in Outsourced Application Development

Extensible foundation architecture, scalability, platform independence and advances and increased acceptance of Open Source software has meant that Global Enterprises are able to outsource application development to software vendors in a bid to counter reduced margins.

However, the customer value and profitability from such initiatives is often short-lived. Fierce competition coupled rapid technology advancements makes the obsolescence curve of applications sharper and their life cycles shorter. And soon, enterprises find themselves 'back to the drawing board', as it were.

How Uberall's Product Development Practice Can Help

One of the often overlooked drawbacks of outsourced application development practice is the 'project mind-set' of the software vendor. The relationship of the software vendors with their global enterprise customers is organized in such a way that the scope of the initiative is limited to specifications, features and functionality.

On the other hand, Uberall's Product Development Practice is uniquely positioned that we are able to get to know our customers and their users better. It is a chance for you to show us how you think through a real business problem.

Our scope identification teams prepare their interviews based on real cases and tend not to rely on brainteasers or theoretical problems when working with our client's product development initiatives.

This enables us to bring solutions that outlive product life-time and generate sustained value at lower development costs, rapid delivery and lesser time-to-market.