Shinetech Enables an EU ISV's to bring a Big Idea to Market

Client's Situation

The client is a software consulting company dedicated in product R & D for ingredient and formulation industries. It had been selling an ERP product for years. Although the sales of the product were growing, the product's technology had become outdated and its clients were demanding updates. And, the client has some features and concepts they planned to integrate into the product enabling the product to expand their market to larger sized companies.

The existing application architecture was not adequate to further extend the application. The Shinetech development team defined requirements for a new architecture from the ground up that would support the existing functionality of the application as well as the new features.

The client possessed a clear vision of the features required for the next generation of their software, but they had no mature ideas how to implement them. The client also did not have a handle on expected costs or delivery dates especially considering the complexity of the application and the required changes. Facing these challenges, the Shinetech CSD team found a reliable and effective way to achieve the client's goals.

Shinetech's Responsibility

The Shinetech CSD team acts as the client's entire IT department and IT consultant team combined. The team is responsible for the full product development cycle from business modeling, product vision (requirement definition) to the software development lifecycle. The team's thorough understanding of the client's business model allows them to contribute to the client's business plan, e.g. product launch schedules, budget controls, risk management, etc.

Members of the team: 16

Development model: Rational Unified Process (RUP)

Cooperation

The two companies started their cooperation in January,2007 with a 3-person trial project. The team won the client's trust with its professional performance, successful business requirement analysis and system architecture design. The team's initial success enabled the client to transfer more responsibility to shinetech, and the ODC team quickly grew to 16 people.

Frequent and open communication has been in place throughout the entire 1+ year cooperation. The client specializes and focuses on business matters, not only in the manufactory industry, but for their existing ERP software product. His deep professional knowledge and open communication facilitated fluid and high bandwidth business knowledge transfer and he supported the team throughout the entire R & D process.

The project continues to operate smoothly and the first version of the new product is expected to be completed in late July of 2008.

Technology: The system is required to be cross platform and runs on Windows, Linux and AIX with WebSphere as the application server. J2EE and AJAX are the core technologies utilized.

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