Hyper competition, complex business scenarios, changing customer-supplier dynamics are some of the most commonly used terminologies in today’s business parlance. Translating these into real terms signifies the increasing pace of change in customer expectations and the speed with which they are demanding those changes to be catered to. Such customer driven pressures have made it imperative for businesses across the globe to re-align their operations based on core competencies.

It is true of the ISV community, which has been strategically outsourcing their product development activities to technology firms, in order to make more time for their strategic think tank to focus on customer needs, brand management, and product positioning and customer service.

At Kumaran we understand the challenges associated with product development and hence have designed an in-house OPD framework to address the challenges thrown, in the due course of helping our clients develop and deploy a product. We have over the past few years successfully implemented this OPD framework in developing products for our clients. Some of the Kumaran OPD framework advantages include:

• Helps reduce cost of production due to pre-determined methodology of requirement gathering
• Helps reduce time-to-market.
• Flexible delivery schedules are in-built into the framework to cater to changing business needs.
• The framework is so designed as to give the feel of an extended development center to the ISV through well crafted contracts protecting their IP.
• Last but not the least, the OPD framework is driven by domain specificity

Some of the clients benefited by the Kumaran OPD framework include:

• AAL – An education software product firm in Canada.
• NORTEL – A fortune 500 Telecom communication company.