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Providing end-to end Software Services to ISV's:

In today's highly competitive market, software product innovation is the key to offer greater value to your customers. However, great product ideas need to be executed upon. The innovation has to be translated into a great software product. This must be done with speed and quality. And in addition to a best of breed product, it is necessary that the product is made available on multiple platforms to align with the customer's platform of choice.

The mounting pressure to improve profit margins, while improving time-to-market and reducing development cost has made offshore outsourcing strategy an inherent part of almost every product firm's strategic planning process. No longer does a company need to be of a certain size before considering offshore development as an option. In fact it makes sense to plan for this in the very startup phases of the company when the impact is most significant and the hurdles to change are lowest. Mature companies need to use offshoring for new initiatives.

Sonata and IBM provide ISVs the one stop shop where it would find these answers. Sonata is working closely with IBM in India as well as globally for providing software services to ISV's. The strong ISV focus at Sonata complemented by IBM's huge market reach would provide ISV's worldwide "value for money" and "incredibly reduced product development lifecycle". Our offerings range from design, co-development/reengineering, porting / migration, quality assurance & testing, maintenance/ support and business consulting.

Some Facts: Excellence in Product engineering Has delivered both a cost reduction and revenue enhancement impact on ISVs 40+ ISV clients & 2000 person years of experience ODC - a key offering to ISVs Experience with Global, Regional and Startup ISVs Excellent client IP management processes in place

360º Partnership and Services offered to ISVs:

• End-to-end Migration services to IBM platform from competing platforms
  • Integrated with IBM's Porting & Solution centers in US, UK and India
  • ISV enablement for adoption to Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Product Co-development & enhancements
• Product engineering Services
  • Testing & Quality Assurance
  • Maintenance & support services
  • Localization and customization

What does this mean to you as an ISV?

Stage In Lifecycle	Our Offering	ISV's Benefits
Start Ups	Product Co-Development Testing / QA 'Follow the Sun' model, rapid prototyping, PoC	Focus on R&D Faster Time to Market Leverage our ISV focused approach and experience Agility
Mature ISVs	Product Re-engineering Migration / Porting Testing / QA Maintenance / Support	Focus on strategic initiatives Faster Time to Market of new versions Faster and better RoI Leverage our ISV focused approach and experience
Late stage ISVs	Maintenance / Support Enhancements	Keeping pace with latest technology Hassle free maintenance of products

Why Sonata?

• Mature Global Delivery Model and processes
• Global presence
• Successful relationships with Early, Mature and Late stage ISVs
• Flexible business model and team structures to suit client requirement
• High degree of vertical and practice alignment
• Broad competence base in technologies / service areas
• Proven methodologies ensuring Quality and Faster Time-to-Market
• Stringent policies ensuring ISVs IPR protection
• Partnership oriented approach to growth

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