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Why outsource product development?

Recent research indicates that more than 60% of technology companies are opting for outsourced software product development as a strategic move to enhance operational efficiency. When you choose eTechnoforte for outsourcing software product development, you gain access to a pool of exceptional talent, cost savings, and unparalleled expertise, encompassing everything from conceptualization, setup, customization, deployment, integration, to product training.

The 2021 Global CTO Survey conducted by STX Next reveals that an impressive 89% of Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) are considering outsourced product development in their future plans. Moreover, as reported by GlobeNewswire,  outsourced product development market size is projected to reach a substantial value of $425.19 billion by 2026. With an increasing number of companies embracing outsourced product development of complete life cycles or selectively outsourcing specific functions, the practice of outsourced product development has become commonplace in the tech industry. Companies are opting for product management while development activities are given to product development outsourcing companies. Renowned global tech giants like Skype, Opera, and WhatsApp have notably chosen to outsource software product development, yielding highly valuable products.

outsourced product development

Outsourced product development is the savvy choice in today’s landscape since the process can be handed over to experts from outsourced product development companies who can ensure that it follows a prescribed timeline in a cost-effective manner. eTechnoforte is one of the best companies for outsourcing software product development.

Experience our outsourced product development services that generate interactive, intuitive, and captivating digital encounters, elevating your business’s value and fostering customer loyalty.

Our Services

With a proven track record of aiding major IT enterprises in creating custom products and extending their outsourced product development solutions, our experts leverage their experience to accurately evaluate and deliver tailored advisory services, drawing from their extensive knowledge of industry best practices, standards, and technologies such as React, Next.js, AWS, Microsoft Azure, ASP.NET, C#, Flutter and more.

Our experts offer full-cycle digital outsourced product development services that encompass end-to-end solutions, starting from the conception of the product to its deployment. We help introduce a minimum viable product (MVP) within a short timeframe.

Our outsourced product development services include:

  • Creation of a successful product strategy through extensive competitive analysis and market research. We employ effective collaboration and iterative feedback loops to create a product that prioritizes the user’s needs.
  • Implementation of a multidisciplinary approach for outsourced product development that covers conceptualization, design, prototyping, engineering, and deployment of your product using industry-standard software tools, modeling and simulation technologies, rapid prototyping technologies, and agile project management systems.
  • Rigorous testing, including performance testing, user testing, and compliance testing, to ensure that the outsourced product development process adheres to the highest security, reliability, and quality standards.
  • Enhancement of the product’s design process through robust prototyping, enabling our outsourced product development experts to swiftly iterate and refine the product’s design based on user testing and overall feedback.
  • Development of a robust UI that integrates all navigation elements, functionalities, and interactivity into the product. Our outsourced product development experts meticulously attend to every detail, ensuring that the UI is not only visually appealing but also functional, manufacturable, and user-friendly.
Case Studies: Successful Assignments in Outsourced Product Development

VDEM

Vehicle Defect Entry Management (VDEM) is an application built to help an automobile manufacturing factory to transition from recording defects on paper to an efficient, user-friendly mobile application. eTechnoforte’s team executed the project from the ideation phase to full fledged integration into operational procedures.

The VDEM application ensured that increased accuracy of factory operations was achieved by offering options for various inspection processes. The user is able to scan vehicle QR codes and record any defect found with the corresponding image and description. The quality checking process is also standardized by providing a checklist, and preventing defect outflow.

Deploying VDEM allowed the automobile manufacturer to avail the following benefits:

  • Real time feedback on “Vehicle Quality” and manage “Defect history”
  • Defect “Outflow Prevention” to subsequent processes
  • Mobile Application Assisted Defect recording
  • Defect Classification, Prioritization & Repair
  • Real time defect data analysis
  • Reduced manpower

VDEM is a native application built through outsourced product development that can be used on iOS, Android and Windows devices. The cross-platform native UI is built on Xamarin.forms, with a web UI rendered using React JS. The application server is built with .NET core, and the API in the REST architectural style. The database is hosted on the SQL server.

After our outsourced product development process, VDEM has been implemented for Toyota, India, and is now being rolled out to multiple Toyota affiliates across the Asia Pacific region.

Device Management Server and Client

The Device Management Server and Client is a system management application programming interface built through outsourced product development that can connect and validate devices on the field for Demographic and Biometric Data Collection for ID Systems like MOSIP. It facilitates communication between the server and its client devices, and maintains security.

It offers the capability to issue commands to the end device for registration and de-registration of the device (Device Keys), Security Key Dissemination and Security Key Rotation collect device information to maintain, manage, support and upgrade a device remotely, and create a central repository of all the approved devices from the device provider. eTechnoforte’s software product outsourcing for device management server and client ensures the safe storage of keys using a hardware security module (HSM). These keys are used to issue the device certificate upon registration. It can also push updates from the server to the client devices.

On the client’s side it acts as the interface that connects the device with the respective management server. Our outsourced product development process ensures that the communication between the management server and its clients is designed with scalability, robustness, performance and security.

eTechnoforte ensures that all communication to the server and from the server follows the below properties:

  1.  The management client detects the devices in a plug-and-play model.
  2.  All key rotations are triggered from the server.
  3. Detects if it’s speaking to the right management server.
  4.  All upgrades are verifiable, and downgrades of software are not permitted.
  5.  Ensures any APIs are not exposed when capturing biometrics
  6.  The management server cannot trigger a capture request.
  7.  No logging of biometric data is allowed. (Both in the encrypted and unencrypted format)

The technology stack used for developing Management Server and Client can be explained as follows:

DOMAINTOOLS/TECHNOLOGIESVERSION
Operating SystemWindows10
Language RuntimeAspNetCore(C#)6
CryptographyTPM2
Web UIReact.js18.2.0
Unit TestingXunit2.x
LogLog4Net6.x
IDEVisual Studio 202217.0.5
API DocumentationSwagger3.x
DatabasePostgreSQL13.x

PALMS

PALMS™ Smart Warehouse Management System is a Digital Transformation tool built through outsourced product development, for supply chain and warehouse management, providing configurable Supply Chain processes required by companies to provide better customer service and control operational costs. 

PALMS™ helps to create a “Digital Warehouse”, a digitally transformed warehouse that records inventory information and puts data with actionable insights at your disposal, enhancing traceability and visibility and eliminating the need for physical maintenance of records. PALMS Product Architecture provides for advanced product features including the following:

1. Fully configurable material workflow engine
2. Custom fields on UI
3. DLL plugin for custom logic plugin
4. JavaScript plug-ins for Custom UI addition to WebUI
5. Query Builder for Custom Reports Creation
6. Auto Generated Web UI

In our outsourced product development process, the Partner Development Toolkit that we offer alongside these features helps extend customizations across different implementations.

Through outsourced product development, eTechnoforte has deployed PALMS™ with more than 100 customers across 20+ countries.

MOSIP

MOSIP helps governments and organizations implement digital identity infrastructure to build their own identity systems and databases. The modular nature of the application allows for each feature to be handled as a separate plug and play service, offering a high degree of flexibility. Through outsourced product development, we utilize the MOSIP infrastructure to offer authentication and E-KYC services, generating virtual IDs for national identity systems, with demographic data normalization and a hotlisting feature to prevent identity theft.

eTechnoforte is a Key Product Development Partner for MOSIP right from the inception days of MOSIP in the year 2018. eTechnoforte’s area of expertise encompasses outsourced product development, Project Management, Product Conceptualization, Development, Manual and Automation Testing, DevSecOps and Dissemination.

MOSIP Product is built on the microservices architecture means the size and complexity of MOSIP does not present an obstacle during delivery. The Kubernetes based Docker orchestration and dockerized deployments saves a lot of storage, time and processing power. Our full scale DevSecOps functions enable Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) meaning incremental changes in code can be made reliably and frequently, which may be necessary when communicating with outsourced product development clients.

DOMAIN TOOLS/TECHNOLOGIES VERSION
Operating System CentOS, Ubuntu Server 7.7, 20.04
Infrastructure Cloud Azure/AWS NA – Cloud Tool
Development – Language Runtime Java SE 11 OpenJDK 11
Development – Expression Language mvel2 2.4.7.Final
Development – Scheduling quartz 2.2.1
Development – File Server tus-java-client 0.4.3
Development – Internalization nv-i18n 1.29
Development – Cryptography TPM 2.0
Development – UI Application Framework JavaFx OpenJFX 11
Development – Application Framework Vert.x, Spring 3.9.1, 5
Development – Utilities Apache commons (60+ to be considered) Latest version
Development – Data Grid Apache Ignite 2.4.0
Development – Object Mapper Orika 1.5.2
Development – validator Hibernate validator 5.4.2
Development – Encryption BouncyCastle 1.59
Development – JSON marshal/unmarshal Jackson 2.9.5
Development – Device Driver RXTX RXTX-2-2-20081207
Development – Unit Testing Junit 4.x and above
Development – Log logback 1.2.3
Development – Templating velocity 1.7
Development – Tools Open Street View NA – Cloud tool
Development – IDE Eclipse Oxygen 4.7.3
Development – Unit Testing Karma, Jasmine 2.0.x, 2.6.1
Development – API Documentation Swagger 3.13.2
Development – Application Server Tomcat server 8
Development – Orchestration Apache Camel 2.19.3
Development – WebSub Ballerina Websub slbeta2
Development – Database H2 DB, PostgreSQL, Derby DB 1.4.197, Server: 10, 10.13.1.1
Development – Database Modeling Tool PG Data Modeler 0.9.2
Development – Scanner Library Morena scanner library 7
Development – Code Quality Sonar 7.2
Development – UI Designs Pencil Project 3.0.4
Development – TPM Java client TSS.Java 0.3.0
Testing Tools Rest-assured, WireMock or Citrus framework, JMeter, Burp suite Professional +, TestNG, awaitility, testfx, extentreports, selenium-java, Java profiler 3.0.0 and above, 2.16.0, 5.3.x, 9.0.3.7, 6.11, 4.0.3, 4.0.16-alpha, 3.1.5, 3.141.59, 12.x
DevOps Tools Jira, SonarLint, GitHub, Maven, Docker, Ansible, Github actions, Travis, Glowroot, Prometheus, Grafana, Python 6.4 and above, v3.5, 2.7.x, 6.7.3 LTS, 3.53.x, 18.03.x CE, 2.2, NA – Cloud tool, NA – Cloud tool, Apache License 2.0, Apache License 2.0, Apache License 2.0, 3.x
Messaging ActiveMQ, Apache Kafka Apache License 2.0
Caching Hazelcast Apache License 2.0
Object Store MinIO GNU AGPL v3
Secure Code Scanning SonarQube with OWASP plugin will be used
Web server/ HTTP Proxy Server Nginx NA – Cloud tool
IAM KeyCloak

OpenG2P

OpenG2P is an open-source software designed to be a foundation for delivering government-to-person solutions. eTechnoforte is a Key Product Development partner working on Developing, Enhancing and Maintaining the Product.

eTechnoforte’s area of expertise encompasses outsourced product development, Project Management, Product Conceptualization, Development, Manual and Automation Testing, DevSecOps and Dissemination. 

OpenG2P Product is built on the microservices architecture. The Kubernetes based Docker orchestration and dockerized deployments saves a lot of storage, time and processing power. Our full scale DevSecOps functions enable Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) meaning incremental changes in code can be made reliably and frequently, if reuired by outsourced product development clients. The business applications of Odoo are utilized and the Development Language Runtime is Python.

OpenG2P’s tech stack is detailed in the table below:
DOMAIN TOOLS/TECHNOLOGIES VERSION LICENSE TYPE
Operating System Ubuntu Server 20.04 Free
Business Apps Odoo 15.0 LGPL
ID System MOSIP 1.2 MPL 2.0
Development – Language Runtime Python 3.5+ PSF License
Database PostGres PostGres License BSD 2-clause “Simplified License”
ID Verification MOSIP Token Seeker, eSignet MPL 2.0
Analytics Engine Elasticsearch Elastic License 2.0
Data Streaming Debezium Apache 2.0
Offline Data Collection ODK Apache 2.0
Visualization Kibana Elastic License 2.0
S3 Storage MinIO AGPL 3.0
Development – API Documentation Swagger Apache License 2.0
Task Management Jira Commercial (OpenG2P has a free license)
Source Code Management GitHub Commercial (OpenG2P has a free license)
Deployment Docker Apache 2.0
DevOps Tools Ansible, Github actions, Prometheus, Grafana GNU GPL v3.0, Apache License 2.0
Messaging Apache Kafka Apache License 2.0
Web Server/HTTP Proxy Server Nginx
API Development Fast API
Form UI FormIO
Interface Standards G2PConnect

GovStack

eTechnoforte has been a development partner for the ID Building Block in the prestigious GovStack project, an International Telecom Union, Geneva (ITU)initiative in providing end to end integrated and working Building Blocks for digital governance. eTechnoforte was selected as the vendor of choice after participating in an elaborate Tendering and RFP process as per the United Nations Global Marketplace (UNGM) guidelines. Their primary aim is to facilitate countries in commencing their digital transformation journey by adopting, deploying, and expanding digital government services. 

By utilizing the digital “building blocks” methodology, governments can easily create or modify their digital platforms, services, and applications while simplifying cost, time, and resource requirements. These building blocks encompass software code, platforms, and interoperable applications that not only work seamlessly together but also offer essential digital services at scale, making them adaptable for various use cases and contexts, including outsourced product development.

A Building Block is composed of domain-driven microservices, modeled as closely as possible on existing roles and processes. Data models and APIs are described in a lightweight manner that’s human-readable, allowing them to be easily and quickly understood and validated.

The API is built using a representational state transfer (REST) software architectural style and described in Open API 3 standard using YAML (a human-readable data-serialization language). Request and response body is in JSON (lightweight data-interchange format).

Some of the building blocks are briefly explained as follows:

Consent: Deals with transparency on data usage, enabling services for individuals to approve the use of their personal data by defining the principles, functions, and architecture of an information system.

Digital Registries: Provides the capability to capture, store, search, distribute, and present data with zero or minimal need for software development. It also maintains and reports logs of all operations taking place on database schemas and data.

Identity: Creates, manages, and uses a digital foundational identity, interfacing with other building blocks to deliver identification services and manage lifecycle of foundational identities.

Information Mediation: Provides a gateway for exchange of data and services among GovStack Building Blocks through open-API rest-based interfaces to ensure interoperability and implementation of standards.

Other building blocks include messaging, payments, registration, scheduler, workflow and so on. Learn more about GovStack here.

Why eTechnoforte’s Outsourced Product Development Services?

Managed Technical Debt

Our commitment to top-notch processes, extensive experience, and best practices in maintaining code quality in outsourced product development underscores our dedication to delivering flawless code, free from defects. We strike a balance between short-term objectives and long-term strategy to guarantee that our development is not only outcome-focused but also free from any technical debt.

Accelerated Time to Market

We employ Agile Methodologies and Lean Product Lifecycle Management to expedite the release process in outsourced product development, ensuring that our releases occur within weeks rather than dragging out for months. Our development frameworks and boilerplates are meticulously designed to empower our outsourced product development teams by automating manual processes and tasks, enabling them to allocate more time to feature development.

Accountability & Transparency

Our outsourced product development clients entrust us with their vital projects, and our success is intrinsically tied to theirs. Over the course of more than a decade, we have consistently upheld our commitment to transparency in our outsourced product development processes and have maintained unwavering accountability for the outsourced product development projects we undertake.

Creating Secure IPs

With our cutting-edge outsourced product development infrastructure, investment in the latest hardware, adherence to non-disclosure agreements, and compliance with local and international laws, we guarantee the security of intellectual property developed with our outsourced product development services. We have robust protocols in place for storing sensitive data, ensuring secure remote development, and managing access with the utmost care.