Ecotech helps product companies in creating state-of-the-art products, by taking care of entire product life cycle management. We support the product companies by offering necessary services, right from conceptualization to implementation support. We work with product companies as their extended IT partners, in offering technical consultancy in choosing the right platform – for development as well as for the end deployment for end use. We also help them in marketing / selling their products by developing high quality Product Demos, Help manuals and being their extended support desk and implementation partners.

What We Offer

We have rich experience in building Desktop, Web and commodity products, for deployment on Cloud / SaaS platforms, Enterprise Desktops, or on on-premise/ third party dedicated servers. We offer development services and maintenance support for:

  • Product Re-engineering / modernization, including migration of data / content
  • Web Parts in SharePoint and .NET
  • Web Services and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Software Development Kits (SDKs) in .NET
  • Web Portals in .NET / MS SQL or in PHP / MySQL
  • Intranet Solutions in Lotus Domino
  • Desktop Applications in VB and .NET framework
  • Hybrid products with Client-Server interactions on different technology platforms

Depending on the support request, our end-to-end Product Development Management services include:

  • Product Conceptualization / Ideation
  • Product Wireframe and POC for Idea validation
  • Product Development
  • Product Testing
  • Product Implementation and Business Planning
  • Product Maintenance / Version controlling

Product Conceptualization

Ecotech works closely with its clients by engaging their IT and Management people right at the conceptualization stage. Backed by our varied experience in product development and maintenance, we offer a significant value to Product companies in architecting and conceptualizing their product ideas into technical documents. As part of this service, we provide:

  • Design layout for the Product website and the Business website, including the logos
  • Architectural Representation Overview with Objectives and Limitations highlighted
  • Use Cases and User level views
  • Logical Flows and Functional Flow views
  • Process Views of each sub section of the product, along with information exchange between them
  • Deployment plan and Implementation Document, including user manuals, technical manuals, data structure document, and performance document

Product Wireframe and Proof of Concept

Digital Books marketplaceAs part of the development process, we work with most of our clients on the design aspects of the products, including the layout designs, HTML Wireframes design, and building the proof of concept that are typically built rapidly for funding. As part of this activity we provide:

  • Functional specifications
  • HTML wireframes, Screen layout finalizations
  • Product Delivery Milestones
  • Test plans and cases
  • Project Approach with imitations and possible solutions
  • Deployment process

We work with Alumni groups from leading Management Institutes world over, for building products and proof of concepts – rapidly and cost effectively.

Product Development

We have proven processes in place that work for product development for varying deployment models. We follow Agile methodology for the development process, which is critical for most of our product development clients. Besides following the standard Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), in our endeavor to make each product development a success, we focus on:

  • Forming Interest groups for regular communication, to bring out the best of Product development. This includes constant brain storming, user interviews, and process validations, among others
  • Regular and Prompt communication between the Product owner and Development team
  • Engage the client in constant management discussions, to understand the changing Business goals and revenue models as the product gets developed
  • Proven process for handling Change Requests, without affecting the delivery milestones
  • Focusing on Delivering business solutions, rather than delivering a technology product
  • Make valid Recommendations at various stages of the product development – right from Conceptualization to Deployment and support options
  • Flexible Maintenance / Implementation support contracts to suit varying needs of Product companies

Product Testing

We understand and have necessary processes in place for Products Testing. We work with several clients for testing their products, including the technical support. Our testing processes seamlessly integrate with our development processes, offering feedbacks, change requests, and to identify criticality of bugs at each stage.

As part of our product development cycle we offer specialized testing services that are tailor made for the product domain and type. We have expertise in testing and offering structured bug reports that are user friendly and accessible to end clients easily throughout the cycle. As part of our standard testing process, we take care of:

  • Security Testing
  • Product Maintenance process validation
  • Design Layout Usability testing
  • Architecture validation
  • Database Design and scripts validation
  • Functionality testing with test scripts where applicable
  • Compatibility testing on different user platforms (OS / Browsers)
  • Usability testing
  • Load, Stress and Boundary Testing
  • Regression Testing

Product Implementation and Business Planning

With over years of product development experience, we understand different Verticals and domains naturally. We have dedicated servers taking care of the Development, and Staging requirements. With our dedicated team of Server Administrators, we build a fool-proof Implementation plan for our clients. We initiate the implementation planning right at the beginning of conceptualization, so it does not serve as a bottleneck when the product is developed and ready for deployment.

At Ecotech, the senior management and the board of consultants, have a background of work experience from across the domains, including Banking, Shipping, Engineering, Finance, Sales, HealthCare, Medical, and Construction to name a few.

Besides our domain knowledge, we offer significant inputs on business models for clients, adding a tremendous value for most of our clients. We question the models, and think out of the box to come up with innovative business models that are clear winners in most cases. We work closely with the Business owners and end board to understand the Budget and time constraints, and offer flexible and optimal models that work for a win-win situation.

Product Maintenance / Version Controlling

Most clients have trusted Ecotech for maintaining their Product lines, including the hosting support, backup / restoration, running security audits, maintaining, developing and releasing versions. Our development team is well versed with the standard product maintenance activities, including the versioning tools of Microsoft as well as other open sources. We work with MS Team Foundation Servers in cases where distributed development has to be facilitated.

Some of the key factors touching our maintenance engagement with clients are:

  • Product Size, technology, deployment model and the users
  • Versions to maintain
  • Product Documentation availability
  • Bug reporting system with history
  • Technical Support requirement
  • Hosting Support requirement