As cloud and internet of things (IoT) enabled solutions gain prominence, software companies need to provide cloud delivery and software as a service (SaaS). Industrial firms add software to their manufactured products to make them smarter, IoT-enabled and able to innovate quickly. The key is to balance the use of cloud and IoT technologies for next-generation solutions while sustaining and/or re engineering legacy products and addressing skills gaps.
Leveraging the cloud and IoT for digital products also requires process change: evolving development, operations, quality assurance and DevOps capabilities. And increased collaboration among product marketing, management, engineering, sales and support is needed to ensure an agile environment across the entire product development life cycle (PDLC) and support rapid innovation. Allocating the right mix of human and financial capital towards both legacy and new technologies is critical. An experienced product engineering partner can help.
In this swiftly evolving and complex environment, it’s critical to have a partner who will support your ability to deliver results across the entire PDLC. Without end-to-end PDLC expertise, it’s difficult for any one team to enjoy a deep understanding of how all the development pieces fit together during a product’s creation and release.
Chief technology officers need a product engineering partner who adds value across entire life cycle – from innovation to quality assurance to distribution. They need a partner who understands global best practices and has the tools to simplify development and get their products to market ahead of competitors.
Innovating new software products and becoming more responsive to market demands requires faster release cycles, product management improvements and evolution in the methodologies that drive development. At Hitachi Digital Services, we help you create strategies to optimize resources and stay ahead of the next wave of disruptive technologies.
We collaborate with your organization to determine how our expertise will best support your success. In some cases, companies may prefer to assign legacy support and maintenance to Hitachi engineers and allow in-house engineers to innovate and build new software products. Organizations rely on our cloud expertise to create new products, while in-house talent supports legacy offerings. We also provide a wide range of testing and quality assurance capabilities, delivered under our unique testing-as-a-service commercial model.
To meet the needs of today’s software development companies, Hitachi Digital Services offers end-to-end product life cycle management (architecture, design, development, quality engineering and maintenance) allowing customers to focus on their business. Our product engineering capabilities include:
During this phase, we assess application technical requirements, evaluate business processes and needs, decompose the product and determine areas of separation. We define business considerations, identify key business drivers, determine potential or desired benefits, and ascertain the criteria for modernization.
In this phase, we evaluate all options with respect to approved architecture and services. We help define the approach and timelines, confirm the business value against costs and benefits, and finalize the most suitable architecture modernization approach for the product and customer.
During this phase, we set up the architecture practice, and decompose, modify and deploy code developed for target architecture. We also test and validate the modernized product (services, integrations, regression) to get optimized performance.
Cloud delivery and IoT place tremendous pressure on the entire PDLC. This challenge impacts broad segments of our economy: software companies, industrial manufacturers, automakers and any other organization that makes products that involve software. Customers expect rapid innovation in the products they consume. Product management wants to drive more frequent releases. Continuous development and integration is radically disrupting the world of DevOps. All of these challenges are against a backdrop of legacy code, deep-seated processes and financial constraints. And it’s all moving at an accelerating pace.
Hitachi, Ltd., has over 100 years of heritage in innovation excellence, product R&D and engineering. As a trusted partner, Hitachi Digital Services helps companies innovate, prioritize, develop, bring to market, and manage new product offerings. We apply our multifaceted expertise to meet the needs of today’s software development companies.
Industry foresight: Assess, define and understand market trends and competitive positioning to set strategic performance targets.
Portfolio strategy: Set portfolio mix targets, evaluate opportunities and establish an offering road map to attain your desired mix. Strategic alignment: Align on strategic process area touchpoints, innovation, organization, design and execution, enabling your IT platform road map.
Process improvement: Assess and align on innovation process scope to attain desired business results; identify and prioritize innovation process gaps and choose from alternatives which improvements to pursue; design, develop and deploy; streamline process improvements.
Organizational design: Assess the current decision-making structure and design the recommended structure with vertically and horizontally aligned roles and responsibilities.
Performance management: Identify and prioritize innovation performance; design, build and execute a performance management program focused on improving performance through innovation.
Assess and prioritize: Tackle technology gaps that need to be addressed to achieve innovation maturity goals.
Implement integrated capabilities: Leverage tech resources to support a sustainable innovation process.
We work alongside each customer, applying our unmatched industrial and digital capabilities to their data, processes, applications, infrastructure and organization. Read this case study to learn more.
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