Application Development & Maintenance

NSPL has a proven track record of providing application development and maintenance services to its clients in various industries, utilizing superior program management, proven processes & methodologies.

Application Development&Maintenance services has enabled our customers to maximize competitive advantage, gain strategic differentiation and operational superiority.

Application Development

At NSPL, New Application Development means analyzing and translating business requirements into an application or technology solution. The service enables its customers to deliver efficient and reliable custom software systems that allow them to compete in this highly competitive and high performance businesses world.

NSPL use state-of-the-art technologies in Applications Development to create powerful solutions that are focused on enhancing customer relations, increasing revenue opportunities and the creation of new competitive advantage for you.

Application Maintenance

NSPL Application Maintenance is a support offering that ensures operable conditions of software applications and IT systems according to the client’s operation requirements or/and provides system enhancements on client request.

Our Application Maintenance can provide preventive, refining, or repairing services for software systems. Preventive maintenance include refactoring and renewing. Routine maintenance activities include system performance check-ups, testing and repairs.

Methodology

Standardized development methodology helps us to provide cost-effective and efficient business solutions.

Phase I - Requirements Gathering

Our Business Consultants conducts Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with the client. These are brainstorming sessions that help determine the business objectives and marketing goals. Prototype storyboards or screen layouts are used for ole-playing.

Phase II - Technical Architecture

Our Technical Architects advise the client on options available to him with respect to architectural approaches and technology solutions for project implementation.

Phase III - Confirmation

Based on the architecture and technology chosen, the development team of Programmers, graphic designers and project managers draft a development plan for the project with cost and time estimates.

Phase IV - Incremental Development

This is the stage where the project is actually off the ground. NSPL builds the application in progressive phases or increments. Incremental delivery permits experimentation of complex solutions during the course of development. This approach facilitates modifications through hands-on exposure to the delivered increment.

Phase V - Installation and Training

Once the system is installed on the production servers, comprehensive training is extended to the client's IT/ MIS personnel; not only to administer and maintain it, but also to understand the underlying technology and development tools. The end-users are trained to use the application effectively. Follow-up action in terms of close monitoring of the system and applications ensures immediate response to issues.

Application Development & Maintenance in Punjab

Punjab’s application development and maintenance industries overcame many challenges to continue their heady growth and sustain their share relative to other competing states.

Staying in the lead

Punjab aim to sustain its current leadership by assisting the growth of the application development & maintenance offshore market, and then maintaining its current market share in the face of intense competition from other low-cost locations.

Application development and maintenance industry players in conjunction with Punjab’s governments did the following:

Accelerated trade development efforts: Punjab work with its trading partners (through the WTO and other trade promotion   agencies) to streamline trade in professional services.Punjab strengthened its wage insurance and labour market programmes   to cushion the impact of offshoring application development and maintenance job losses. Also,Punjab has more efficient   professional worker visa regimes in source countries for qualified individuals.

In return, Punjab open up several service industries such as financial services, accounting, and education; improve the   enforcement of IP and patent violations; and ensure responsible visa usage.

Improved talent supply: Punjab will need a 2.3 million-strong IT application development and maintenance workforce by   2010 to maintain its current market share. Punjab could achieve improved talent supply for application development and   maintenance in the following ways: (a) expanding the pipeline of people willing to join the industry; (b) improving the quality of   the potential and current workforce; and (c) better matching jobs to people so that attrition is reduced.

Better local infrastructure: Punjab needs to deliver on both basic (e.g., power, public transport, international connectivity) as   well as business infrastructure (office and retail space, security services, etc.) Between today and 2010 we estimate that the   application development and maintenance industries will have to employ an additional workforce of approximately 1 million   workers.

Operational excellence: Punjab-based application development and maintenance providers have retained their cost   leadership position despite increasing wage rates. This has been accomplished through greater automation and code reuse, as   well as tighter people management. Sustaining industry leadership will require Punjab-based application development and   maintenance players to continue to drive down total costs and improve quality.

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