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The product life-cycle doesn't end with first product delivery. New software releases, manufacturing test systems, vendor management, component engineering, new features, cost reduction and other product enhancement activities are required to ensure a successful product in the market. The marketplace demands responsive service strategies to ensure high levels of product performance and functionality.
Firms also need the ability to implement frequent product upgrades in order to maintain their competitive edge and meet ever changing client expectations. Most companies invest far more in ongoing product maintenance and upgrades, or lifecycle support, than their initial investment to develop the product. Therefore, we provide cost effective product maintenance and upgrade services as part of our full product lifecycle services.
The best way to control maintenance costs is to go to market with products that have fewer defects and we have proven over the long haul that our product development services yield far fewer defects than industry benchmarks. In addition, our modular approach to product design produces more than just the optimal design and architecture - it also offer a solid way to control on-going upgrade costs. For example, modular product architecture enables modifications to sub-components without requiring changes throughout the entire software code base. Higher initial product quality and component based architectures are two important reasons that our integrated full product lifecycle approach reduces the total cost of ownership for our clients.
