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Thursday 21 August 2014

IT Service Providers Should Focus Equally on Solution Accelerators alongside Product Development

The Leap at Software Accelerators:

Software or software products are something that we, as consumers, are widely familiar. Some of the commonest examples of software we use in the regular run of our lives include Microsoft Word, Excel or the Outlook. Introducing and popularizing Solution Accelerators will surely be complicated in such an environment where consumers are familiar with products and IT service providers, in the quest to satisfy consumers, have also indulged themselves in focusing solely on Product Development.
Wait!


Solution Accelerators? What are they?
Exactly! This is the most natural reaction from personnel engrosses with product development. Let’s take a look at solution accelerators– what they might be!

Solution accelerators are defined as readymade and fully tested domain-centric business application components that are used for developing solutions, directly addressing challenges of business. In a simpler way, these are more of tools than the product. You use the accelerators for developing a product, capable of functioning to its optimal potential. Among the leading IT service providers in the US, Microsoft has the widest variety of Solution Accelerators ready in their arsenal. Some of the most remarkable of those include:

•    Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit
•    MAP Toolkit for Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track
•    MAP Toolkit for Microsoft Office 2013 and Office 365
•    Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF)
•    Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD)

Why Solution Accelerators Should Be Attended Equally as that of Product?
Products are the ultimate outcome of the developmental efforts that will be used, scrutinized and criticized by customers. However, in the IT industry there is no ultimate product. Users will keep on sending their valuable feedback and you have to continue updating it as per their requirement, addressing as well as remedying the points of inconvenience. Custom development is the most widely recognized trend in this context. The possibilities for introducing customizable changes with this method are not only limitless but also expensive, time consuming not to mention risky sometimes. If your product is high on demand and consumers expect you to add more convenience to it quickly, then you can’t really opt for custom development always.

Mastering the art of using solution accelerators is highly recommended in these situations, provided you have kept ready your service requirements, namely – analysis, product configuration, product customizability, training and documentation. Understanding the correct use of solution accelerators will help you as a developer to implement and execute the necessary changes to the product quickly with the developmental spectrum.

Compared to earlier times, the trend of using Solution Accelerators has increased encouragingly among IT service providers in the US. Maketick Inc. is one of those promising product development and IT consultation catering companies that is maintaining the balance between custom product development and use of Solution Accelerators with precision and perfectness.

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