Our expertise in software product maintenance and support stems from a long list of partnerships with software companies for more than a decade ranging from Fortune 500 companies to start ups. Often after helping release a new software product, customers seek our maintenance and support services to extend the benefits they have received working with us. We have also helped organizations address maintenance and support challenges with their legacy software product portfolios.
Umesh Verma
President & CEO
Blue Lance, Inc.
Our SaaS and cloud computing service offerings cover the entire lifecycle including business and technical assessments, structured solution and technical software design and transformation.
We offer proficient software maintenance services to software companies faced with the prospect of having to prioritize between allocating resources to the existing software portfolio as opposed to new software development initiatives. We serve clients globally, partnering with those facing challenges in sustaining software maintenance operations. Some of the scenarios where we have helped clients include:
Software road map definition, execution and management Software configurations, hardware profiles, customizations, upgrades and migrations Designing, developing, testing and releasing enhancements Support for new platforms, browsers, databases, 3rd party software integrations Development of updated installation packages for each release Regression testing for each release
We can help you provide your customers prompt and authoritative support services they expect of a quality software product company. We have evolved and matured our software support practices and processes, and continuously keep improving them in an effort to create and maintain a high confidence with your customers when they need support. Some of the areas where we have helped our clients include:
Complete software incident management process including prioritization, replication, remediation and closure Patch and hot fix management Seamless integration back to maintenance operations and product roadmap execution L1 support to understand and resolve customer issues over e-mail, phone, live screen share sessions and IM L2 support with minor code changes, customizations, bug fixes in response to customer requirements L3 support to provide hot fixes, service packs, installation package development, functionality enhancements and upgrades Provide support in accordance with Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with end customers
We can help you seize opportunities coming your way by providing quick turnaround POC's and customizations that are bound to help you win customers. We have helped numerous software product companies compete better and clinch customer deals by providing high quality, cost effective and quick turnaround software sales support and customization services. Some of the areas where we have helped our clients include:
Dedicated product support teams for quick response to customization requests to drive sales Develop POC's and mock-ups for product customizations and implementations Design, develop, test and implement product customizations
There is a lot of software engineering budget, customer satisfaction and product line profitability at stake when you decide to move your software product to the legacy sunset category and migrate customers to newer product lines. Having worked with a Fortune 250 software company amongst others to effectively manage a large portfolio of legacy software, you can benefit significantly from our experience and expertise when it comes to legacy software management and migration. Some of the areas where we have helped our clients include:
Custom support solutions for individual customers post support discontinuation Migration support to new software product versions
Our reliable and predictable outcomes are based on a proven methodology and unique approach that has served our 250+ clients and growing. Our proven methodology and unique approach have helped us deliver customer satisfaction, profitability and has ensured:
Efficient knowledge transfer from existing staff Well defined steady state maintenance procedures for enhancements, bug fixes, migrations and sunset Efficient resource and infrastructure planning Continuous improvement in service outcomes
We understand your software maintenance and support challenges with more than thousand software product releases completed to date. We have an abundant track record of over a decade across a spectrum of enterprise, line-of-business and systems software markets as well as all major development platforms.
We create a favorable customer experience for your end users through effective takeover of support operations with deployment of key senior personnel who drive the support transition process. We do this using proven processes and templates. We interact with you over channels you are comfortable with – telephone, mail, chat and screen sharing sessions. We have well defined SLA's that guarantee quick responses to a customer's situation and effective resolution of the issue. Our technical personnel come with soft skills training to create a customer experience that goes beyond the satisfaction of getting his / her support issue resolved.
You can easily ramp up and ramp down on resources to meet profitability and customer satisfaction goals. We advocate and practice total business transparency to arrive at mutually beneficial terms. While working with us, you get a service provider with the mindset of a partner who goes the extra mile to meet your business objectives.
Software products are forced into a phase of decline and subsequent obsolescence by changing business, technology and competitive forces. Outdated software turns into a problem for both software product companies and customers.
Software companies struggle with proportioning their limited resources between forward looking software development initiatives and software maintenance activities. With lowered investments in infrastructure, processes, and people to support software maintenance activities, it becomes increasingly harder to deliver necessary enhancements and support at the same level of quality and timeliness customers are accustomed to.
Personnel deployed on legacy software maintenance become harder to retain, especially if they compare their roles with the more exciting development positions in the rest of the organization. Many times the same personnel consider keeping their knowledge undocumented and in their own head as a means of job retention. So when they do decide to leave, training new personnel becomes an uphill task.
After announcing the end-of-life of a product, maintenance revenue streams and customer support volumes are hard to predict making it very hard to assign support resources profitably.
Many software product companies turn to specialized partners to help enhance the life cycle revenues and profits for their existing product portfolio, while deploying their internal resources on more strategic software R&D initiatives. This gives software companies the much needed flexibility to scale up or scale down partner resources in line with maintenance revenues and support volumes and the option to continue selling these products as long as they are profitable. Outsourcing has turned out to be the most effective way to balance maintenance of existing software while pushing for new software development.