Software product engineering | software development company Innominds started building high performance development and QA teams for database compatibility, database server internals development and quality engineering for the customer in early 2007. Agile ramp up of the team and executing the knowledge transfer flawlessly using innovative training methodologies in a blended offsite-onsite model was the key factor to begin the engagement with quick wins. Innominds brought in leadership in database internals and cross experience in multiple RDBMS and connectors that created the new features in the compatibility server. Global product companies or Independent Service Vendors (ISVs) are always under performance pressure as would any of us in our respective jobs. They strive for market expansion, increased product features and new product ideas and face the regular constraints of decreasing profitability, increased competition, dearth of resource and skills and rising costs with simultaneous pressure to upgrade and widen product offerings while using fewer resources. Product-development planning remains crucial to organizations' survival. Some key challenges (and hence success factors) are as follows: Development Speed: Faster and faster is the mantra of product development. One way to hasten development speed is through digital design, analysis and collaboration tools to get products to market faster. Using collaboration software, file-sharing software and more, engineers can transform ideas into digitized virtual designs for testing and viewing a new product in three dimensions, in months rather than years.
Platform Flexibility: Every product guru will acknowledge that a key success factor of a product in the market is its platform flexibility. This results from using modular product architecture to provide more product variety to customers. Computer aided design and engineering tools permit easy reuse of already-completed design files. All these files make...