Every technology company is unique and their needs are exclusive. Proteans focuses on the specific requirements of every customer and aligns its services for the customer needs.
Aligning with Business Stage
Proteans has experience of working with several start-ups. This experience includes some success stories (startup -> funding -> growth and leadership -> acquisition).
The key priority for start-ups is fast time-to-market without compromising on quality. There are unique management, technical and product design challenges for the 1.0 release:
- Pressure to reach first to market
- Evolving priorities and requirements
- Technology & platform selection
- Application performance and usability
- Licensing models
Proteans value addition:
Proteans has significant experience in addressing all these typical challenges successfully. We can assist start-ups in devising most effective strategy for product design, technology and licensing.
Proteans has assisted several start-ups with Prototyping (technology and user interface) to help them conceptualize the product and collaborate with key stakeholders.
Once the product conceptualization is done, Proteans engages customers through its
DEC (Dedicated Engineering Center) model.
Proteans has partnered with dozens of emerging companies globally and helped them overcome typical challenges in their stage of business:
- Integrating new methods and platforms for software development
- Move away from start-up culture and incorporate best practices and processes
- Customizing products to support channel expansion and major customer requirements
- Matching or exceeding product feature competition from larger competitors
- Handling product maintenance and innovation needs at the same time
The most effective engagement model for emerging companies is the
DEC (dedicated engineering model). Proteans also offers consulting on adopting and transitioning to Agile practices, as well as adopting engineering best practices.
Proteans works with several successful and established companies and helps them with product sustenance, new product development and technology migration/re-platforming.
Proteans typically sets up a Dedicated Engineering Center (
DEC) for Established Companies as an extension of customer's engineering team and provides:
- Product Maintenance, Support, Testing and Release for older products.
- Product Integration to expand market scope
- Enabling Service Orientation and Open Architecture for partners to integrate and enhance the product
- Migration of existing products to newer technology platforms
- Conceptualizing and developing future products