Product Rewrite: Mantra's Blue Ocean Strategy for Your Business

How to reengineer a product to whole new level? How to think 'out-of-the-box'? Why to play the game differently than your competition, when you can let Mantra help you to change the game? Which new technology really is right for the product? How do you make sure the Cloud strategy is implemented correctly? How do you ensure that you have buy-in form your existing client base into your new product?

For answers to these and many other questions, companies have been partnering with Mantra. With Mantra’s Product re-designing solutions and proven experience, you can expand your product's capabilities, gain completive edge and strengthen revenue model while making the most of your existing technological resources. Mantra team can help your your technology and product team to migrate to newer cutting-edge technologies, while still extending the life cycle of existing systems that remain rich in functionality. Mantra’s recent software re-engineering portfolio includes projects geared to help our clients:

  • Migrate applications and legacy systems to client/server or Cloud architecture
  • Enable online usage of existing applications - SaaS enabled
  • Migrate existing systems and applications to UNIX or Windows NT - Cross Platform Integration
  • Update from non-relational to relational database technology - Legacy and Flat files to SQL Server, Oracle

Mantra Product Reengineering Projects

Mantra has worked with various companies, small and large, to re-write their existing products to the newer platform and technologies. Mantra followed the approach of closer collaboration in all these projects. Mantra, on behalf of clients, did a due diligence on various technologies, platforms, languages and OTS software available and proposed the most suitable solutions to the client. Larger companies, that have their own technology teams, find Mantra product teams valuable in early phase to develop quick pilots and Proof-of-concepts.

Client Domain, Client Base Older Application Mantra Designed Solution
Financial ISV

Financial - 300 clients nationwide on old, legacy application

COBOL, Flat files and some C code
SaaS, Java, Oracle, EDI, Web based
Telecommunication ISV
Telecommunication - 500+ clients internationally
VB 4, MS Access, SQL Server
.NET, SQL Server , Stored Proc's driven with load balance and Cloud
Healthcare Facility Operator
Healthcare - 10+ Hospitals under management
MS Access Reports, Partial Crystal Reports and MS Excel
MS SQL Server, SSRS
Healthcare Device Maker
Healthcare - 1200 clients, 90% based in US
VB 3, MS Access
.NET, SQL Express, Database Synch

 

Mantra Software Re-engineering Solutions

  • Application migration to SaaS
  • Cloud Computing Solutions
  • Client / Server and Smart Client Solutions
  • Web based application.
  • UI facelift, Database migration

Software Product Re-Engineering Case Study

Customer
– Midsize Independent Software Vendor (ISV) 

Domain
– Banking / Financials

Challenges
– Customer needed to – find the hot-spots within the application, re-engineer and re-write those, improve the product quality, quickly port to the next generation of .NET framework, provide facelift to the application for better usability and get this all done in shortest amount of time.

Mantra’s Solution
– Starting with domain knowledge and understanding Mantra established technical leadership in offshore teams, worked very closely with management and IT teams, worked round the clock for effective time management, set increasingly harder timelines and met all those, improved code quality and application dependability.

Value Addition

  • Better end-user experience
  • Improved code quality and stable production release
  • Established monthly release cycle with set of features rolling in every month.
  • 100% increase in customer base within 9 months.
  • 8 hour turnaround time on level 1 and 2 defects in old application.

The Mantra team utilizes a range of different tests depending on the type of application or product that is being reviewed. In addition to our standard array of assessments, we can develop custom evaluations to meet your unique needs.

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