In todays business environment, companies are expected to bring products to market faster than ever before. At the same time the shelf life for products is shortening, forcing vendors to adopt shorter product life cycles. This puts a lot of pressure on an already maxed out development organization that is involved in supporting multiple prior releases of a product while planning for tactical patch releases.

By engaging with Convene, you will realize the benefits of partnering with an organization that focuses on a process oriented approach to commercial software development. You will be able to focus your energies on market expansion, product positioning, sales and strategic initiatives while our engineers focus on developing a quality product.

Convene offers end-to-end product lifecycle services. Our software projects goes through the following stages during their evolution:

Conceptualization
This is one of the most critical stages in a product’s life cycle. It’s imperative for companies to clearly define the concept, vision and market position of the product during this stage. Convene works closely with our clients during this stage, conducting market research, competitive analysis, gap analysis and technology selection.

Elaboration
During this stage the product concept starts to take shape in tangible forms. The high level concept is refined into detailed feature sets. Product road maps are created and solution and deployment architecture are defined. Proof of concept and rapid prototyping is done to validate decisions early in the lifecycle. Convene’s usability and UI experts work closely with our clients along with members from our architecture and testing resources to define architecture and design, and to produce a prototype.

Realization
This is the nuts and bolts phase. The development and test teams are involved in creating a product that realize the product vision and feature sets using the technology, architecture and design that were part of the earlier phases.

Convene uses a distributed agile methodology that enforces an iterative process and promotes close collaboration and extensive communication between the development, test teams and the customer. This ensures that overall quality is maintained from the early stages of the development process. Convene offers product enhancement services to add new features and services to existing products. After new features have been finalized, Convene will document these and follow a process oriented approach (similar to new product development) to enhancement.

Product Enhancement
In today’s rapidly changing business environment, software vendors have to constantly enhance their products to maintain customer loyalty and meet new market requirements. This puts ever increasing stress on the software development organization that’s already stretched thin because they’re supporting multiple prior versions of the software.

Product Re-engineering or Platform Migration
As newer technology platforms evolve, software products have to be constantly adapted to function and take advantage of the new features in these updated platforms. In most cases, this endeavor does not involve new product features, but it is crucial for the long term success of the product.Convene leverages its varied technology skills and distributed agile methodology to help clients in technology migration efforts. We have helped clients migrate from legacy platforms like AS400, FoxPro, dBase, native C and X-Windows to current paltforms.

Convene leverages its varied technology skills and distributed agile methodology to help clients in technology migration efforts. We have helped clients migrate from legacy platforms like AS400, FoxPro, dBase, native C and X-Windows to current platforms.